64 missile warheads stolen from Romanian train
June 18th, 2011
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Dozens of small, old rocket warheads were stolen from a train carrying military equipment from Romania to Bulgaria, officials said Monday.
Authorities promised that the 64 warheads posed no danger to the public but offered varying explanations why.
The Romanian national police said there was no risk because they were not attached to rockets. Spokesman Florin Hulea declined to provide further details.
Two daily newspapers cited officials close to the investigation as saying the warheads did not contain explosives. The papers, Evenimentul Zilei and Adevarul, did not identify their sources.
Bulgaria’s Economy Ministry said the warheads belonged to 122mm (4.8-inch) diameter Grad rockets, which are typically fired from vehicle-mounted multiple-rocket launchers.
It said in a statement the shipment was part of a transfer of “nonfunctional components and parts” for reprocessing at the VMZ factory — one of Bulgaria’s largest military factories — in Sopot, central Bulgaria, where the components and parts were to be replaced and the warheads prepared for sale.
“The fuses (warheads) were transported separately from the projectiles,” the ministry added.
Transport police in the central city of Brasov told the Mediafax news agency that the warheads were in four boxes in one of the cars on a train carrying equipment from a Romanian company that produces artillery shells and ground-to-ground and air-to-ground missiles.
Romanian officials also tried to portray the Saturday theft as accidental.
Eugen Badalan, a member of the parliamentary defense committee, said the thieves “had no idea what they stole,” and prosecutors said they were investigating whether the components were stolen by scrap metal thieves.
However, only one of the eight cars on the 27-car train was broken into.
Mediafax reported that railway workers noticed the seals on a carriage door were broken, and the door was not properly closed, when the train reached Giurgiu, a Danube port that borders Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian Defense Ministry confirmed in a press release that the recipient of the fuses was a Bulgarian company, not its armed forces. It said the Interior Ministry’s Dangerous Weapons Control Service had issued a permit for the transport of the delivery.
The train was loaded on Friday and stopped under guard overnight in the central Romanian town of Brasov, about 166 kilometers (103 miles) north of Bucharest, according to transport police. After leaving Saturday, it stopped for one hour in the mountain resort of Predeal.
Romanian national state company Romarm said the Bulgarian company was responsible for train security.
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羅馬尼亞一軍用物資火車失竊 64枚導彈彈頭被盜
2011-07-19 08:46:29
中國新聞網
據外電報道，一列從羅馬尼亞開往保加利亞運送軍用物資的火車失竊，64枚導彈彈頭被盜。羅馬尼亞當局稱，他們正在調查此次盜竊案件。
羅馬尼亞內政部發言人米利塔魯(Marius Militaru)17日表示，失竊的部件本身並不具有危險性，它們只有裝入導彈系統後才能顯示出威力。檢察人員18日稱，他們正在調查此次盜竊案件。
火車16日抵達朱爾朱後，鐵路部門工人注意到一個車廂廂門的封條破裂，而且廂門並未正常關閉。朱爾朱位於羅馬尼亞南部，座落在多瑙河沿岸，毗鄰保加利亞。
負責運輸這些彈頭的是羅馬尼亞Tohan Zarnesti公司，該公司主要生產炮彈、地對地導彈、空對地導彈、直徑122毫米導彈的彈頭等。
http://big5.china.com/gate/big5/military.china.com/news2/03/11078240/20110719/16655253.html
二萬枝肩射式地對空導彈在利比亞失踪！
原始報告：來自德國的核威脅 - 氫彈不見了
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