GDELS, Romania’s ROMARM Agree on Local Production of Wheeled Armored Vehicles

General Dynamics European Land Systems` local company GDELS-Romania (GDELS-RO) signed an agreement for the creation of an industrial consortium with C.N. ROMARM Uzina Mecanica Bucuresti (UMB) for the production of wheeled armored vehicles in Romania.

The signing ceremony took place on March 15 in the newly established vehicle production facility at UMB in Bucharest. The event was attended by the Prime Minister of Romania, Nicolae Ciuca, the Minister of National Defence, Vasile Dancu, the Minister of Economy, Florin Spătaru, as well as the United States Charge D’ Affairs to Romania, David Muniz and GDELS President, Alfonso Ramonet.

In January 2018, and as part of the Romanian Army’s plans to modernize its legacy wheeled armoured vehicle fleet, GDELS signed a contract with the Romanian Ministry of Defence to deliver up to 227 PIRANHA 5 wheeled armoured vehicles in six different configurations. With production progressing as planned, over 60 locally produced PIRANHA 5 vehicles have been delivered by GDELS to the Romanian Army since the program was launched.