Romania: Reports on Armed Forces of Romania

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the annual defence report for Romania for 1971. The report describes a year marked by an espionage affair involving General Ion Șerb, and by the failure of a Warsaw Pact exercise involving troop transits through Romania to materialise. Further information is provided on the modernisation of Romanian barracks; the morale and political reliability of Romanian forces; the physical fitness of Romanian troops; the equipment available to the Romanian military; Romanian Alpine forces; the position of the Securitate; Romanian border guard troops; the Romanian "patriotic guards"; Romania's military expenditure; and Romanian relations with British military forces. The report also covers Romanian naval forces, with details of Romania's fleet, naval personnel, and training; and the Romanian air force, with information on Romanian airfields, aircraft, radar, surface-to-air missiles, exercises and training, command-and-control organisation, and technical capabilities.