{"id":3025,"date":"2018-02-09T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:20:21","slug":"after-22-years-romanias-navy-is-aiming-to-procure-a-new-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/09\/after-22-years-romanias-navy-is-aiming-to-procure-a-new-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"AFTER 22 YEARS, ROMANIA\u2019S NAVY IS AIMING TO PROCURE A NEW SUBMARINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3026\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/DelfinulSubmarine-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Euronews<\/p>\n<p>By Cristian Gherasim<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in decades, the Black Sea will once again be patrolled by a Romanian navy submarine.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was one of the first acts of Mihai Fifor, the incoming Minister of Defence and was the most noteworthy of a series of measures designed at modernising the country&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a great need to modernise the Romanian Naval Forces. This very ambitious programme will reinstate Romania as a key player at the Black Sea\u201d, said the Minister during the Parliamentary hearing. He added that \u201cdeveloping full submarine fighting capabilities is a medium-term plan and that the submarine will be produced in a shipyard in Romania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romania has been without a functioning submarine for over 22 years since its only previous military submersible, the Delfinul was retired.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/01\/30\/after-22-years-romania-s-navy-is-aiming-beneath-the-waves-again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Euronews By Cristian Gherasim For the first time in decades, the Black Sea will once again be patrolled by a Romanian navy submarine. The announcement was one of the first acts of Mihai Fifor, the incoming Minister of Defence and was the most noteworthy of a series of measures designed at modernising the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/09\/after-22-years-romanias-navy-is-aiming-to-procure-a-new-submarine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AFTER 22 YEARS, ROMANIA\u2019S NAVY IS AIMING TO PROCURE A NEW SUBMARINE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[753,723,1795],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-black-sea","tag-romania","tag-romanian-naval-forces","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}