WARSAW, Poland — Romania has selected the Turkish Cobra II four-wheel-drive armored vehicle for the country’s land forces, ordering a total of 1,059 units.
Under the plan, the first 278 vehicles will be made in Turkey by manufacturer Otokar, and the remainder at a plant operated in Romania by local companies.
The planned sale is estimated to be worth around RON 4.263 billion ($940 million), Otokar said in a statement.
Romania’s Ministry of National Defence has tasked state-run defense company Romtehnica with carrying out the procurement.
The latest development comes as Bucharest is advancing a number of major procurements for the nation’s land forces. These include the planned acquisitions of new tracked infantry fighting vehicles, tanks and wheeled self-propelled howitzers. Last June, Romania chose the K9 Thunder 155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer for the country’s military, purchasing 54 howitzers from South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace.
Alexandru Georgescu, a Bucharest-based security and defense analyst, told Defense News that, following long-standing public criticism, the Romanian ministry attaches great importance to foreign suppliers’ offers of cooperation with local defense plants.
Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine is encouraging Bucharest to strengthen “the undersized and overall neglected Romanian defense industry,” Georgescu said.
The Cobra II has a gross weight of up to 14.5 tons (31,967 lbs) and is powered by a turbo-charged diesel engine fitted with a 360 hp capacity. The vehicle can carry a total of 11 persons, including a driver and a commander, according to data from the Turkish manufacturer.
nocountryforcoldham on
Anything but russian junk
Reasonable_Swan9983 on
A tribe, divided by lines on planet Earth, buys armed toys from another tribe to protect themselves from dangerous tribes—all financed by the destruction of the planet and its climate
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Wreas on
Good choice
dat_9600gt_user on
I hope those things are really good
LegitimateCompote377 on
It would be better if Europe developed its own weapons so it doesn’t get caught up in the affairs of Israel, the US, Turkey etc who back poorly planned out wars that end up causing problems down the line and finance many questionable groups across the world.
Israel being one of the main arms sellers to the Junta in Myanmar (pre 2022 but it was sanctioned internationally in 2017) and the dictatorship in Azerbaijan, whilst also other than Hamas being the biggest obstacle to the Palestinian peace process with illegal Settlements, Turkey practically backing a puppet government in Syria that is killing support for the FSA (whilst also partially backing the terrorist Al Nusra front) and the US/UK obviously supporting the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, one of which is highly unstable and the other achieved almost nothing.
None of these countries except the US who could elect Trump at any moment really care that much about Ukraine with no military aid being sent (despite the nefarious militaries and militia they do support) and all have major global military companies that often do not follow international law and fund whoever they want. The EU shouldn’t be helping them, it can and should make its own industry.
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WARSAW, Poland — Romania has selected the Turkish Cobra II four-wheel-drive armored vehicle for the country’s land forces, ordering a total of 1,059 units.
Under the plan, the first 278 vehicles will be made in Turkey by manufacturer Otokar, and the remainder at a plant operated in Romania by local companies.
The planned sale is estimated to be worth around RON 4.263 billion ($940 million), Otokar said in a statement.
Romania’s Ministry of National Defence has tasked state-run defense company Romtehnica with carrying out the procurement.
The latest development comes as Bucharest is advancing a number of major procurements for the nation’s land forces. These include the planned acquisitions of new tracked infantry fighting vehicles, tanks and wheeled self-propelled howitzers. Last June, Romania chose the K9 Thunder 155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer for the country’s military, purchasing 54 howitzers from South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace.
Alexandru Georgescu, a Bucharest-based security and defense analyst, told Defense News that, following long-standing public criticism, the Romanian ministry attaches great importance to foreign suppliers’ offers of cooperation with local defense plants.
Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine is encouraging Bucharest to strengthen “the undersized and overall neglected Romanian defense industry,” Georgescu said.
The Cobra II has a gross weight of up to 14.5 tons (31,967 lbs) and is powered by a turbo-charged diesel engine fitted with a 360 hp capacity. The vehicle can carry a total of 11 persons, including a driver and a commander, according to data from the Turkish manufacturer.
Anything but russian junk
A tribe, divided by lines on planet Earth, buys armed toys from another tribe to protect themselves from dangerous tribes—all financed by the destruction of the planet and its climate
[deleted]
Good choice
I hope those things are really good
It would be better if Europe developed its own weapons so it doesn’t get caught up in the affairs of Israel, the US, Turkey etc who back poorly planned out wars that end up causing problems down the line and finance many questionable groups across the world.
Israel being one of the main arms sellers to the Junta in Myanmar (pre 2022 but it was sanctioned internationally in 2017) and the dictatorship in Azerbaijan, whilst also other than Hamas being the biggest obstacle to the Palestinian peace process with illegal Settlements, Turkey practically backing a puppet government in Syria that is killing support for the FSA (whilst also partially backing the terrorist Al Nusra front) and the US/UK obviously supporting the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, one of which is highly unstable and the other achieved almost nothing.
None of these countries except the US who could elect Trump at any moment really care that much about Ukraine with no military aid being sent (despite the nefarious militaries and militia they do support) and all have major global military companies that often do not follow international law and fund whoever they want. The EU shouldn’t be helping them, it can and should make its own industry.