The Romanian defense industry has the capacity to produce between 6,000 and 20,000 artillery shells, up to 60,000 artillery mines, 300,000 to 55 million rounds of ammunition, and up to 245,000 tons of explosives in TNT equivalent per year.
The Romanian defense industry is now being prepared to produce its own 155-mm shells and expand its explosives production capacity. This is reported by Defense Romania.
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According to the authors of the publication, Romanian government officials have successfully completed the expropriation of the Victoria gunpowder plant near the city of Brașov. Therefore, the facility will begin expanding its existing production capacity and resuming gunpowder production "jointly with a European manufacturer", the name of which has not yet been disclosed.
The Romanian authorities have previously announced that this plant will become Europe's largest gunpowder production facility, with an investment of 2.5 billion Romanian lei (USD half a million), but other details are still unknown.
In addition, the Romanian state budget for 2025 includes 125 million euros for the modernization of TNT and hexogen production lines at a plant near the city of Făgăraș.This project should be completed by the end of this year.
It is also known that Romanians produce 5.56 mm, 9.9 mm, 12.7 mm, and 14.5 mm caliber small arms at the Cugir plant, while 5.54 mm and 7.62 mm caliber ammunition is produced at the UM Sadu plant.
As for the plans to produce 155-mm shells in Romania, production is set to begin at the facilities of the Mechanical Plant in Plopeni. The project is budgeted at 100 million Romanian lei (USD 21.6 million), and the direct production of 155-mm shells is expected to start in the second quarter of 2026.
Earlier, Defense Express reported that the Romanians had had second thoughts after their tenderless F-16 purchase when they could have gotten Gripen.
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