Modi Visit to Vietnam

[BoQ77]

why will India openly trade nuclear weapons tech. with vietnam ? India can slip blue prints coverty to our Vietnam brothers also the IRBM tech,

New level of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership would help in that.

 

[PARIKRAMA]

Second last point is very important. OVL i guess is now protected by Vietnamese government interests as well

looks like MEA wants to ensure everyone can read the point it wishes to make !!!

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...vietnamese-oil-block/articleshow/53827194.cms

Strategic importance is far more.. of we can use that rig effectively, we might be able to get some handsome data..

PLEASE KEEP NUCLEAR WEAPONS, IRBMs and ICBMs out of this thread discussion..

India will not give N weapons to anybody.. do not entangle this thread with all those assertions..

Its a good day for India Vietnam partnership. Lets celebrate that and keep other things aside..

 

[Sasquatch]

Kindly stick to the topic, off topic/flame posts have been deleted.

 

[BoQ77]

Vietnam to gain satellite views of South China Sea thanks to Indian agreement
Bonds between India and Vietnam are strengthening as territorial disputes with China ratchet up.

India and Vietnam are enhancing security ties in a move likely to heighten tensions with China over territorial disputes in the flashpoint South China Sea.

Vietnam has approved India setting up a satellite tracking and imaging centre in southern Vietnam that will that will give Hanoi access to pictures from Indian earth observation satellites that cover Asia, including China and the South China Sea.

India has 11 earth observation satellites in orbit that can provide military intelligence, with existing ground stations in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Brunei, Biak in eastern Indonesia and Mauritius.

Carlyle Thayer, an expert on Vietnam from Australia's Defence Force Academy, said the new tracking facility shows that India's and Vietnam's interests are "converging over China and the South China Sea."

India's Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft ready for launch. The country's space program has been accelerating in recent years. Photo: Supplied
Both countries are modernising their militaries as China has aggressively staked its claim for almost all of the South China Sea, a region believed to be rich in oil and gas and through which goods worth more than US$5 trillion ($7.19 trillion) transit each year.

Tensions between communist Vietnam and its giant communist neighbour China over the disputed waters have also accelerated Hanoi's efforts to improve relations with its former enemy the United States and other global powers over the past several years.

The tracking station will be the first such facility in Vietnam and follows other agreements between Vietnam and India, which both have long-running disputes with China.

Indian experts have been training Vietnamese sailors to man Vietnam's new advanced Kilo-class Russian-built submarines that have begun patrols in the South China Sea.

Vietnam has granted oil exploration blocks to India in waters that are disputed with China, while India has extended a US$100 million credit line for Hanoi to buy patrol boats.

Vietnam's Foreign Ministry has confirmed the tracking station, which analysts said would give Vietnam real-time access to images from Indian satellites, as well as training in imagery analysis.

The facility, which cost US$24 million, will be run by India's Space Research Organisation.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that Beijing hoped the facility "will be able to make a positive contribution to pushing forward relevant co-operation in the region", while China's Defence Ministry said it wasn't a military issue.

Tensions have escalated in recent weeks over the South China Sea where China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have overlapping territorial claims.

China provoked condemnation when it landed civilian planes on an artificial island where it has built infrastructure that can accommodate military aircraft.

Vietnam has accused China of towing a $1 billion oil rig into disputed waters in a potential re-run of a stand-off that sparked violent anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam in 2014.

The United States has obtained final approval to expand its military presence in the Philippines and has begun making spy flights over the region in Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft based in Singapore.

-with Reuters
http://www.smh.com.au/world/vietnam...anks-to-indian-agreement-20160126-gme23v.html

 

[Place Of Space]

That is for Vietnamese to decide, not internet trolls esp those from an opponent. Thanks.



Holy font size batman!

I agree to you, intelnet trolls can decide nothing.
Any actual content of the agreement in this visit has been reported, give a link?

 

[BoQ77]

Vietnam really appreciate any single support of India as we know that is from a friend.

 

[Place Of Space]

Vietnam really appreciate any single support of India as we know that is from a friend.

wow, I am almost touched by your post. what's Modi's schedule, has the joint statement issued already?

 

[Nilgiri]

I agree to you, intelnet trolls can decide nothing.
Any actual content of the agreement in this visit has been reported, give a link?

Just follow this thread.

 

[BoQ77]

I saw the deals on Navy and Navy ; Border Guards and Border Guards.

So It cleared that the first credit of 100 mn is for Vietnam Border Guard patrol Boats.
Currently, their boats look like this

Or newer as this

 

[CBU-105]

Good to see friendly cooperation between the two nations but

what the hell is up with talk of buying and selling an ABM ? ours is nowhere near ready, unless this is talk of selling a prithvi interceptor which is again, still in development ? and can one legally sell ballistic missiles anyway ?

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Congrats to our relationship! I like it more than Vietnam has 40000 IT bachelor per year , we need more space to work and improve our life

Are you a girl? or only your dp is that of a girl?

 

[Place Of Space]

Just follow this thread.

I read through the thread and the content of agreement between two nations. Where did the Statement mention nuclear weapon as your Indian fellows state in the beginning?

 

[Nilgiri]

and can one legally sell ballistic missiles anyway ?

Vietnam would have to join MTCR....or India would have to provide such tech under the table.

I read through the thread and the content of agreement between two nations. Where did the Statement mention nuclear weapon as your Indian fellows state in the beginning?

You asked about the general content of the agreement....not hypothetical speculations by defence fanboys. You can differentiate between the two cant you?

 

[PARIKRAMA]

Saurav Jha wrote an article in July.. few points from there which points of what could be potentially under the $500 Mn Line of Credit for Defence

So there you get some basic footsteps into the so called ABM aspect @BoQ77 via the AAD commonality and perhaps at a later stage the system
http://thediplomat.com/2016/07/the-future-of-indias-defense-exports/

 

[CBU-105]

Vietnam would have to join MTCR....or India would have to provide such tech under the table.

I don't think either of those is a possibility, an MTCR compliant 300km brahmos will be about it, and that would be a reasonably big deal too if/when it happens.