MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER M-1979 PRODUCTION FACILITY BACAU AIRFRAME PLANT, ROMANIA

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• Document Release Date: June 30, 2010
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• Publication Date: May 18, 1982
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MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER M-1979
PRODUCTION FACILITY
BACAU AIRFRAME PLANT, ROMANIA
1. (S/D) SIGNIFICANCE: THIS PLANT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE
PRODUCTION FACILITY FOR THE ROMANIAN MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER
(MRL) M-1.979.
COORDINA.'I'ES 46-31-20N 026-55-1.0E
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(S/D) REMARKS: THIRTY-SIX ROMANIAN MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHERS
M-1979 AND SIXTEEN 5-TON DAC-665-T TRUCKS (USED AS THE CHASSIS
FOR THE M-1.979 MRL) WERE AT BACAU AIRFRAME PLANT25X1
1-982. THE M-1979 IS A 40-ROUND 122MM MRL FIRST .. ..1 WITH
ROMANIAN ARMY UNITS IN 1981. TWENTY-NINE OF THE M-1979 MRL AND
TWO OF THE DAC-665-T CHASSIS WERE UNPAINTED. THE REMAINDER OF
THE VEHICLES APPEARED TO BE IN DARK-TONED MILITARY PAINT. THE
VEI-i.ICLES WERE ON A PARKING APRON NEAR THE FINAL ASSEMBLY
BUILDING. THE LARGE NUMBER OF M-1979 MRL AND THE FACT TI-IAT
MANY WERE UNPAINTED INDICATES THAT SERIES PRODUCTION/ASSEMBLY
OF THIS ROMANIAN ROCKET LAUNCHER IS UNDERWAY AT BACAU.
CHASSIS HAS BEEN PRESENT SINCE M . , .
(S/D) 12 M-1979 MRL (TEN CANVAS-COVERED) AND 25X1
TWO PROBABLE NI-1979 MRL WERE PRESENT. TEN CANVAS-COVERED
M-1.979 MRL HAD ALSO BEEN PRESENT THE DAC-665-T 25X1
(S/D) BACAU HAD PREVIOUSLY ASSEMBLED OR PRODUCED THE ROMANIAN
MRL, M-1974. THESE WERE LAST AT BACAU IN AUGUST 1979, WHEN
FOUR WERE OBSERVED.
AS AN AIRCRAFT REPAIR BASE FOR THE ROMANIAN ATR FORCE.
(S/D) BACAU AIRFRAME PLANT PRESENTLY ASSEMBLES/PRODUCES THE
IAR--52 (SOVIET YAK-52), O'.TIII'sR AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, AND.S LR
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