Articles translation
First, please forgive my english capital. : D
Xinhua wrote about the Air Force, Navy Vietnam?
A few days ago, Xinhua, one of China's official newspaper published an article about "the purpose of building the Air Force in Vietnam."
The article is quite long, mainly reflecting the speculative nature of the individual author of the assessment of the construction process and the normal development of the Vietnamese Air Force today.
This article was subsequently other website, forum post, notably the website, the forum is regularly published, review the issues related to Vietnam's military capabilities, especially marine, air force.
Here are the contents of this article are posted verbatim on Xinhua. Some comments, reviews, personal speculation, the shooting, the damaging diplomatic relations of the author of this article when we talk about air power in Vietnam and China have been removed.
"How to destroy targets relatively far from the coast is top urgent task. Vietnam to buy Russian fighter Su-27 and Su-30 equipped with missiles X29 and X-31.
To conduct maritime patrol, in 2008, Vietnam had established police. This force was equipped with C-212 patrol aircraft 400 purchase of military aircraft company Airbus.
Today, with a network of non-unitary, by the Vietnamese Air Force Staff management, are arranged under the stairs, and there is a link exchange system data.
Missile defense system in Vietnam (*) radar. Each section of the missile defense system will bring mobility, radar can be deployed in any area, so hard to be hurt. "Xinhua wrote.
"Surface-to-air missile forces of Vietnam owns about (*) missiles of all kinds, from air defense missile systems SA-24 to S-300PMU-1. In addition, the air force also possesses anti-aircraft artillery, a diameter of 23-57 mm.
12/2003, Russia and Vietnam have signed a contract to sell 4 fighters Su-30MK2V for Vietnam, the total turnover of $ 100 million, handed over to Vietnam after 11 months. Then, 1/2009, Vietnam continued to buy 8 plane Su-30MK2V, in which four units were handed over in 2011.
5 months later, Hanoi continued to buy 12 aircraft fighting Su-30MK2V, is expected to hand over the end of 2013. Costs for aircraft, weapons and equipment to the ground, the total value of transactions reached nearly $ 1 billion.
Currently, the Vietnamese Air Force property (*) aircraft fight Su-27/Su-30, but the Air Force Command has more ambitious plans, will build (*) regiment fighter Sukhoi , and plans to increase the number of Su-27/Su-30 (*) units. Hanoi hope this will force forces the backbone of the defense forces and the Air Force's attack.