More than 1, 5 thousand Military Romania, USA, UK and Canada participated in the maneuvers of combat shooting, which ended at the site of the Escarpment of the County of Brasov in the exercises Sarmis fifteen, said in the Ministry of defence of Romania.
in the defense Ministry stressed that the exercises involved about 200 tanks and other armored vehicles, combat helicopters and aircraft.



"Such large-scale exercises with combat firing exercises were carried out due to the fact that in 2014 and 2015 in the state budget allocated more money for defense," said summing up the results of training the head of the Ministry of defense of Romania Mircea du?a, reports news Agency. However, he noted that these maneuvers are very costly. For example, shot rockets price of 180 thousand Euros each ". According to his statement, the teachings are part of measures to ensure the security of the Eastern NATO countries on the background of the conflict in Ukraine. In connection with the Ukrainian crisis, the Romanian authorities on demand NATO will increase by 2017 the military budget to 1, 4 to 2% of GDP. Romania, together with Poland and the Baltic countries turned to NATO and the United States with a petition to increase its military presence in the Commonwealth on its territory and implemented a redeployment of its troops to the Eastern borders. In June in this country will start to work command center for rapid reaction forces of NATO, which will be on duty approximately 150 officers. At the same time, the reconnaissance aircraft with AWACS NATO airbase Geilenkirchen in Germany began to make daily flights over the South of Romania, conducting radar reconnaissance of the southern regions of Ukraine and Moldova. In addition, the Romanian authorities granted the request of the capital of the United States to increase the number of Marines with 1 thousand to 1, 6 thousand Soldiers at the air base of Mihail Kogalniceanu airport near Constanta, which provides transport cargo and military in the process of anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan. Also, the government appealed to the United States with a petition to place in Romania, a squadron of American fighters to 2017 - the Bucharest plans to buy for its air force 12 used f-16s from Portugal.

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