Morar Andrei

Yeah, I also find interesting that the modern territory of Romania was like a buffer zone, a battlefield during the 16th-19th century between the great powers of Europe, with many battles involving the Russians, Austrians, Ottomans.

What would be the answer to this question?

 

Well one reason why the ironclad was developed was as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. 

Yeah, I heard stories about ironclads fighting each other not being able to penetrate the armour of the enemy because the armament of the ships was not powerful enaugh.

What can I find out?

Thank you! I was always wondering that I've seen that mind of suspension in another place before.

Personally, I like the German WW2 tanks, and these prototypes are very interesting for me.

Very interesting information!

Two vehicles made me curios since I've seen them: the Begleitwagen I (Rhm) and II. What are thse tanks and what is known about them? I guess that Rhm stands for "Rheinmettal" and K for "Krupp". They look like Panzer IVs, but have the bottom half very strange.

Same thing I want to say about the " Panzer V Ausf D 'Leopard' - 75L48" from, supposedly, November 1942 Ukraine. It looks like a longer Panzer IV, with tracks similar to the VK 30.01. Was that a real tank prototype or a fake? Which is its story?

The last TACAM R2

I watched jmantime's video some time ago and I can say it very well done. It even uspired me to make my own version of it.

https://youtu.be/u8Mt1UX6uyU

I will keep looking for Romanian WW1 era armoured cars.

And a little history of the armoured cars in Romania:

The first armored unit in the Romanian army was formed in 1916 and was called the Automobile Group. It had four battle machines (two Peugeot brand and two Renault brand) armed with French machine guns Chatelleraut, 8 mm caliber, and in November 1916 two more armored cars were changed, the name of the unit was changed to the group of cars. The battalion group fought in the offensive of the Romanian Army II in July 1917, in the operations on the Soveja road and in the Grozeşti gorge. In 1917, several Austin and Austin-Putilov vehicles were captured from the Russian defectors, which were used in the 1919 fighting.

I found sime other strange Romanian armoured cars. Check them out!

This is how I found the image. It was 7x4 cm.

I like military history, but there is one thing I never understood completely: how did the warships evolve? I know something about the Ancient ships, the 18-19th century ones, the WW1 and WW2 and a bit about moder ships. But there are two large periods I really don't understand and I find them very strange and unclear:

- the transition from the ancient galleys to the giant ships full with cannons (in short, naval warfare and ship aspect in Middle Ages, until battle of Lepanto - if there were already ships with cannons and large sails, why did they still use galleys, even with a bunch of cannons? My History teacher told me such ships have been used in the Mediteranean Sea until the 18th century )

- mid 19th century (transition from wooden ships to metal ones, first metal battleships, monitors, ironclads, then the transition to the more classic Dreadnought Class battleship)

I found another interesting image: a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter with Romanian markings. It is known thst the Royal Romanian Aviation used Strutter planes during the 1917 campaign.

Finally, after finding more about the other cavalry charge from Prunaru - because this is the name of the battle I was looking for,  "sister" of the same charge from Robănești - I covered it into a video, to make it more interesting. Hope you will enjoy! 

Important announcement! By today, I will start creating this content only just in English, but maybe tere will also be subtitles in Romanian.

But I will continue using my native language in certain videos, on special ocasions.

I decided to try by myself on Photoshop. This is my first attempt.

You were right. Thank car looks more like a Peugeot. I have a picture of a Renault Mle15 right here.

Also, because this is a topic related to Romanian equipment, this would be a good place for these articles:

Looks like I kind the photo refference. The photo is from 1927, so you were right about the Inter-war variant. I will upload some photos too, a bit later.

A quick update and a new upload, this time in the domain of aviation:

Some of the vehicles used by the Romanian Armed after WW2. Most of them are still in service. Are still suitable for modern combat or are obsolete?

TAA - tank destroyer project

TR-77

T-55A

TR-85 M2 - tank project

MLI-84M

TR-81M1 - Romanian main battle tank since 1980's

TAB-71 (Transportor Amfibiu Blindat / Armored Amfibium Transport 71)

ABC-79

TABC-33 Zimbrul APC

I found another armoured vehicle. This time, I'm sure this one is Romanian. It's an Austin (possibly modified) called "Mărășești".

The question is simple: did Romania use Assault Infantry durin's the Great War? If not, when was this kind of unit implemented in the Romanian Army?

Here are some other strange vehicles. I have the mention that there is a little misconception, some of the tanks from this whole story have been attributed to the German designers, but they have never been planned, at least in Germany during the war. First examples are some fake images from that period or are modern-made:

I want to say a huge thank you to Wardrawings for the very interesting images he created.