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Eastern European countries have been steadily ramping up their defense readiness in wake of Russia’s Feb.24 invasion of Ukraine. For Western defense firms, this means a continued bonanza of contracts even beyond arms requests and deliveries sent directly to Kiev.
On Friday a new Raytheon deal with NATO-member Romania has been announced, valued at over $208 million. “Raytheon Missiles & Defense [of] Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $208,736,138 firm-fixed-price contract for the Naval Strike Missile Coastal Defense System for the Republic of Romania,” a Raytheon press release stated.
Romania will use the Raytheon manufactured anti-ship missiles to help defend its some 100 miles of coastline on the Black Sea – where Russia’s Black See Fleet frequently patrols, and is now executing a war against Ukraine.
The range of the Naval Strike Missile Coastal Defense System is typically estimated at over 100 nautical miles, and it was first developed for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy.
Raytheon will work on fulfilling the contract with Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg, who described the modern weapon system as follows:
“The primary missions for NSM CDS are maritime interdictions against sea targets from small and light ships made of Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics (GFRP) to large naval combatants like destroyers and frigates and ships with [a] thick hull like icebreakers.”
The Kongsberg marketing material continues, “Secondly, land targets are handled by the NSM CDS. The land attack capability is primarily based on use of the military GPS but seeker-assisted land attack capability is also available if requested.”
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The US government had authorized more sales of advanced defense equipment to Romania in 2021. Currently units of the Army’s 101st Airborne are stationed in Romania, estimated at about 4,000 US troops, to conduct joint drills with Romanian forces. The exercises are part of operational readiness and muscle-flexing aimed at Russia amid the ongoing Ukraine war.
Just when I thought Romanians couldn’t get any dumber they surprise me again. When are the people going to rise up and say no more to the stooges of the Ziomafia parasites in their government.
They have rised up. NO MORE COMMUNISTS.
Its no surprice. Many of them even prefared Hitler for Stalin and went to Stalingrad to say more then hallo. .
Have you heard of August, 24 1944? This was a heavier blow to the Nazys than Stalingrad and Bagration operation combined.
Romanians, rising up!? Only to belly dance on their “manele” !
The Romanians were already fascist bootlickers in WW2.
I can confirm that. Many were very much semilar to the Nazis. Thier military forces attacked at barbarossa as well as went to Stalingrad. Oil too.
If you would know tthe background of that affair, you would think otherwise.
Long story, short: Germans betrayed Romanian military under their command, Romanian high staff betrayed the mentally deranged Romanian ruller de facto which was Antonescu that kept tight with Germans and in the end there was August 24, 1944 when the Reich got the worst betrayal of them all.
The side that Romania goes with gets a bad beating, each and every time in the last hundred years. 😁
Yes, it was Antonescu and the Iron Guard. But later they became communist and now capitalist.
Iron Guard was anything but fascist … nazis hated them, that is why they helped the clown king , proto commies liberals and other cripto jews stooges to violently remove legionares from power …
Legionares were fascist.
No, they were not. Maybe in your sick, neo-libtard mind. Anyway, prove it (if you can!), but not by politically correct propaganda lies… also, it depends what you mean by “fascist” .. . the current political class is fascist by any definition or standards you can find at large
Fascism = totalitarian ultranationalism
Liberalism / Socialism = Fascism = totalitarian internationalism
Too farfetched
They are buying them with money given to them to buy them.
So Romania is reasonably armed , it won’t make any difference if Russia parties
Romnia as the rest of us are addiction to EU as well as Nato.
By that they are many and enough.
Insane in the Romain.
Insane in the Romain Soros imposed rulers brains.
Romanians do not want any of this. Media is inflicting the idea that Russia is so weak and fights with leftovers from WWII but this bullshit avalanche starts to loose momentum.
Endless money for war and nothing for Peace…homeless people and suffering which could be stopped…someday there will be a price to be paid by the Perpetrators.
Even homeless people support the destruction of Russia!
They have to tell the Black Sea is not Rustica.
Romanians will send these missiles to re-gain Transnistria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-T59H-MewM
Russian borie would sink it and chunk of the coastline in a jiffy,raytheon are ok for teorrist new woke order,but against a true world superpower which relies in its own resoutces stand no chance(period) Romania your getting ripped off again by usa dumb flogs!
This is why Romania exists! To be ripped off…
The question is why Ukraine exists?!
To suicide itself into russia. A isis bomber in the size of a country.
To be ripped off …hehe americans don’t give a shit of hystorical injustice made to Romania.. therefore don’t care who owns what …maybe just the jews who prefer the stolen lands from Romania to remain ocupied by fuckraine…
And what the hell them gypsies gonna do with this? Sell it to black market to Yemen. Thanks! Send them some more.
Do you sell yourself in the black market in Yemen?
Are you talking about your people, you turk gypsy?? Here is an article about Romania, a country who hates gypsies …regardless if they call themselves turks or any other muslim brownies
That’s over 2/3rds of Romania’s total GDP. Wouldn’t it be smarter (and definitely more cost effective) for Romania to find common ground with Russia rather than be buried in debt as a NATO vassal of Washington?
If all the money produced in Romania after the neo-communist (pro-globalist) coup of 1989, when Romania was not in debt to the jewish globalist bankers, and the economy had not been destroyed at the behest of the jewish globalist banking elite, and the money produced had not been stolen by the globalist elite corporations, Romania would be much richer than Sweden or Norway are now.