First supply of Soviet armour to Romanian army

I do.
I just wanted to make the distinction that 66 of the 316 vehicles that Czechoslovakia sold us were in fact su-100 (same chassis as T34/85 ) and were delivered a bit later on.

Interesting informations you have osutacincizecisidoi,
can you tell us your source? And possibly more on the delivery (year at least) of the SU-100? And maybe other later T-34-85 and SU-100 deliveries? Czech or soviet origin.
Thanks in advance!

Stockholm institute arms deals database 1950-1960.

No later deliveries vere mentioned.

I remember reading an article (I think it was in Jurnalul National) about the Soviet withdrawal from Romania in 1958. It was said that one of their units from Timisoara gave to the Romanian Army 100 T-34 and 100 SU-100, rather than carry them back home.

I recently found the first number of a publication called Arme si Istorie from 2002 edited by a group of former officers of military units from Banat (from the '50s and '60s) where I found a detailed order of battle of a romanian Tank Brigade based in Lugoj in 1957. This brigade commanded by the famous (later) Paul Cheler, than just 'a poor lieutenant colonel of the tank troops', had no less than 94 medium tanks T-34-85 and 30 tank destroyers SU-100, without counting the armored vehicles, transport trucks or accompanying artillery units. So, a very strong unit. So if we think that the unit in question was not unique in the Romanian Army at that time, we can assume that the number of tanks and armored vehicles that our army posess was considerably higher than the alleged 250 tanks and 66 tank destroyers received until 1954.

250 + 66 only from czehoslovakia

If you press this link :

http://www.militaryvehicles.cz/index3.php?sek=02-01&lang=en

you can read evrything in english

or press the english flag in the left top of the "home" page....

Saves translating time

there is a romanian post war T34/85 with markings in the national military museum in bucharest...