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Carlosa, SIPRI says VN will receive the first of 6 Yak-130 in 2015. that is the first time I hear. Have you heard anything about it?
Những vũ khí mới Việt Nam sẽ nhận trong năm 2015 - Sohanews
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That one had been on order or rumored on order for a few years, nothing new. Its just a trainer with ground attack capability.

Careful with this report, this same report came out a few months ago, I posted the announcement on the MP forum and other people in the forum that have access to SIPRI (including one that works for SIPRI) blasted me because it was false, SIPRI didn't put out this report.

Some of these people that write articles for the newspapers are just either dreaming or faking stuff to make some money with the article.

Some of those things such as the BUK and Pantsir are already deployed.

If what they say about the Pantsir is true that uses the Sosna-R missile, not the standard missiles, then that's really bad by the way.

Edit: I just noticed the date, 01/07/2014, this is the report that I posted in the MP forum a few months earlier, Its false. This does not mean that VN didn't get or that is not going to get that stuff, but the report is false.

@Black Flag Bro, do you have access to SIPRI per chance?
 
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actually yes, Vietnam will receive Yak-130 soon in near future, but i don't know the exact dates for the delivery. I know this news since attended Singapore Air Show 2014, in which Rosoboronexport has announced the orders.

But, hey who am i, i am just a bystander here
 
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That one had been on order or rumored on order for a few years, nothing new. Its just a trainer with ground attack capability.

Careful with this report, this same report came out a few months ago, I posted the announcement on the MP forum and other people in the forum that have access to SIPRI (including one that works for SIPRI) blasted me because it was false, SIPRI didn't put out this report.

Some of these people that write articles for the newspapers are just either dreaming or faking stuff to make some money with the article.

Some of those things such as the BUK and Pantsir are already deployed.

If what they say about the Pantsir is true that uses the Sosna-R missile, not the standard missiles, then that's really bad by the way.

Edit: I just noticed the date, 01/07/2014, this is the report that I posted in the MP forum a few months earlier, Its false. This does not mean that VN didn't get or that is not going to get that stuff, but the report is false.

@Black Flag Bro, do you have access to SIPRI per chance?

You can generate your own export-import lists here:

SIPRI Arms Transfers Database — www.sipri.org

The annual yearbook is in the school library system and I'm off campus right now.

Edit: you can also check out

World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers

COW Home Page
 
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actually yes, Vietnam will receive Yak-130 soon in near future, but i don't know the exact dates for the delivery. I know this news since attended Singapore Air Show 2014, in which Rosoboronexport has announced the orders.

But, hey who am i, i am just a bystander here
I wish it comes true as all news say the order is unconfirmed. Same goes to this news: India plans to set up a new ground station in Vietnam and upgrade an existing facility in Indonesia to monitor satellites.

India plans to set up satellite tracking station in Vietnam
 
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actually yes, Vietnam will receive Yak-130 soon in near future, but i don't know the exact dates for the delivery. I know this news since attended Singapore Air Show 2014, in which Rosoboronexport has announced the orders.

But, hey who am i, i am just a bystander here

Modest as usual.
 
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some more pics from the Gepard visit to Indonesia
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November 17 Lao Cai city, Vietnam
Signing cooperation agreement between the border guards of VN and CN. I suggest both parties should come together at regular basis, eating some nice viet/chinese foods and trinking beer as a way to reduce tension :D
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the Obama administration allocates $113 million dollar USTDA for the fiscal year 2015 to Vietnam. Little bit unclear to me what the money goes for and why. The program appears to lure and inform vietnamese audience on “Welcome to America”. Maybe it is about to spread US capitalist propaganda in communist Vietnam :D

U.S. taxpayers expected to upgrade communist Vietnam
 
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here is the second news from the promised land America. Reading between the lines will reveal many things.

Obama says US, Vietnam experiencing 'deeper engagement'

By John Boudreau and Phil Mattingly
Bloomberg News
Published: November 13, 2014
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NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — President Barack Obama's one-on-one meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at a regional summit in Myanmar highlights how the former enemies are edging closer, against the wishes of China.

The bilateral huddle of the leaders follows last month's decision to lift the ban on sales of American nonlethal weapons to Vietnam after tensions escalated between the Southeast Asian country and its communist neighbor. The United States and Vietnam are experiencing "deeper and deeper engagement and opportunities to cooperate," Obama said ahead of Thursday's meeting on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit of Southeast Asian nations and several world leaders.

Vietnam wants a U.S. presence in the region as its leaders use an array of diplomatic moves to counter China's influence in the region. The government in Hanoi is pursuing negotiations to diffuse territorial disputes in the South China Sea while publicly protesting Chinese actions and seeking closer economic and military ties to the United States and other powers, including India and Japan.

"Vietnam is hedging," Alexander Vuving, a security analyst at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, said by phone. "There are elements of competition and cooperation in the strategy. The approach is to deter China and reassure China of its peaceful intentions."

Obama's meeting with Dung comes after diplomatic relations between Vietnam and China ruptured when a Chinese oil rig was placed off Vietnam's coast in May, triggering clashes between boats and also anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam. Officials in Hanoi on Oct. 9 protested China's completion of an upgraded airstrip in the disputed Paracel Islands.

"Obviously, the United States and Vietnam have a very complex and difficult history, but for the last several years what we've seen is deeper and deeper engagement and opportunities to cooperate," Obama said.

The meeting, he added, gives the two countries "additional opportunities to cooperate."

In October, Secretary of State John Kerry told Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh that Vietnam will be able to buy nonlethal weapons from the U.S.

"We very much share the belief that it is important for all countries, big and small, in the region to abide by rules- based norms in resolving disputes," Obama said.

The U.S. and Vietnam continue to have "productive dialogues on issues like security," Dung said. Relations between the two countries "have achieved significant progress," he said.

Vietnam is seeking "assurance that the U.S. stays the course in its re-balance" to Asia, Carlyle Thayer, an emeritus professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said by phone.

It is easier for China to "manipulate" Vietnam's leadership if no other powers or international bodies get involved with South China Sea disputes, Tuong Vu, an associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon, said by phone.

"China wants to slow down the relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam," he said.

China's State Councilor Yang Jiechi met with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi Oct. 27 to patch up relations. Yang's visit to Hanoi coincided with Dung's trip to India, when the prime minister called on the country to play an active role in territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Maritime disagreements "should be resolved through dialogue and consultation by countries directly involved on the basis of respect and historical facts and international laws," Hong Lei, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said at a briefing in Beijing Oct. 28. "This is in line with international laws and common practices, and is also a consensus reached by China and Asean countries."

Navigating its relations with China while protecting its economic and sovereign interests is risky diplomacy for Vietnam, Vuving said.

Trade between Vietnam and China surged 84 percent to $50.2 billion last year from $27.3 billion in 2010, according to Vietnam government data. The two countries aim to boost that flow to $60 billion in 2015, according to an April 14 statement from Vietnam's government.

The "reset" between Vietnam and China, which includes hotlines and increased high-level meetings, could be brief, Thayer said.

"All it takes is a misstep or perceived misstep by any of the parties" to inflame territorial tensions, he said. "The fundamental sovereignty disputes have not been solved."

John Boudreau reported from Hanoi, Vietnam.
 
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Vietnam Army Chief, Senior Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty, visits Australia Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin.

Talks focused on peacekeeping mission, maritime security and officer training. Also, Ty visits HMAS Stirling in Perth, a major military port for warships and subs, especially the Collins Class submarines. I guess he wants to see how the Aussie operate something as the Cam Ranh bay.
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Russian news agency Interfax:
The Kilo #3 for the navy: HQ-184 Hai Phong (left in the picture) is ready to make the voyage to Cam Ranh bay.
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the Gepards visit to the Philippines
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