Romania has exported weaponry and military equipments worth EUR 38 mln in Q1 2016

Newsroom 17/08/2016 | 11:35

Romania has exported weaponry and military equipments of EUR 38 mln in Q1 2016, the main destination being US (approximately EUR 9 million), according to the data of Exports Control Department (ANCEX) within the Ministry of External Affairs, says Mediafax.

The ANCEX report on the first three months of 2016 shows that Romania exported weaponry and military equipments valued at EUR 38 million, out of which exports to US were EUR 19 million: 1,900 semi-automatized rifles, 500 guns, 300 soft choppers, 4,500 assault riffles, 100 choppers of 12.7 millimeters calibre.

Moreover, Israel has imported weaponry in Romania valued at over EUR 4 million in the same period, comprising various components for field military vehicles and for aircrafts.

Morocco imported a military helicopter from Romania which needed an overhaul of approximately EUR 2.4 million.

Within the top countries that imported Romanian military products in the first months of the year are India (EUR 2 million), Bulgaria (EUR 1.7 million), Italy (EUR 1.2 million) and UK (EUR 1 million).

Romania had also three intermediary operations between South Africa and Azerbaijan (six equipments for military aircrafts), Czech Republic and Mozambique (18 products for training military airplane) and India and Mozambique (10 equipments for military fight airplane).

Georgiana Bendre