Nicolae Ceaușescu, the leader of Socialist Republic of Romania, had ambitions to make the country as independent as possible and to develop its industry, one of them being the shipbuilding industry. In the 1970s, the state launched a program of building large warships of domestic designs instead of buying them from the Soviet Union, which supplied ships to the Eastern Bloc countries.
Nicolae Ceaușescu sought Romania's independence and industrial development, particularly in shipbuilding. In the 1970s, the state launched a program to construct large warships based on domestic designs rather than acquiring them from the Soviet Union, which supplied ships to Eastern Bloc countries.