Vietnam Defence Forum

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in Vietnam, the modification and conversion work carried out by the Cubans was very interesting, integrating different weapons into a different chassis platform; hopefully it is hoped to be carried out also in Vietnam with the collaboration of Havana

http://soha.vn/canh-sat-bien-viet-n...g-khong-quan-rieng-biet-20180221235415315.htm

http://baodatviet.vn/quoc-phong/quo...moi-hop-tac-quoc-phong-viet-nam-cuba-3354145/

Here are some of your typical weapons like the SA-2/3 anti-aircraft missile launcher on the T-54/55 tank frame, artillery installed on trucks, modified BTR-60 troop transport vehicles with BMP-1 turrets or even more interesting with the cannon D-10T2S 100mm of the T-54-55, turning it into a tank destroyer and called BTR-100.

This interest has increased in recent days, when the new version of the BTR-60 appeared even more extensively modified and armed with the cannon U-5TS 115mmof the T-62, to which the name BTR-115 is temporarily assigned

Interesting article, which states that Vietnam provided three (3) UAV-02 of local production in Cuba

 

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fact to Vietnam war

The man, who led America into the Vietnam war: US President Lyndon B. Johnson. All began with much hurra´s but when the war slowly slipped into the military disaster, he lamented in a talk: “A man can fight . . . if he can see daylight down the road somewhere. But there ain’t no daylight in Vietnam. There’s not a bit." “I just can’t be the architect of surrender.”

To gather intel over North Vietnam, the US airforce deployed their most advanced recon airplane SR71 Blackbird. Code named "Giant Scale". Starting in 1968, taking off airbase of Okinawa in Japan, the SR-71 fleet conducted averaged one sortie a week for nearly two years. By 1970, two sorties per week, and by 1972, then one sortie per day. Although North Vietnamese air defence reportedly fired over 800 missiles but none could hit the airplane that is capable to fly as high as 85,000 ft at Mach 3.5.

 

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Surprise: last year 2017, Vietnam is the second largest arms buyer of Israel after India. Per SIPRI Amrs Transfer Database, Vietnam arms purchases include 5 SPYDER missile trucks with 200 Derby and 200 Python-5 surface to air missiles.

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-top-arms-clients-India-Vietnam-Azerbaijan-545027

 

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Vietnam sees role for Australia in resolving South China Sea tensions

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a bilateral meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, in November 2017. Alex Ellinghausen

by Lisa Murray

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has flagged closer co-operation with Australia to deal with tensions in the South China Sea as he warned all sides to refrain from using force and intimidation.

Mr Phuc said Canberra and Hanoi, which are set to deepen trade and defence ties this week with a new strategic partnership, would cooperate closely to ensure security in the region and freedom of navigation and over-flight in the contested area.


Read more: http://www.afr.com/news/politics/wo...na-sea-tensions-20180313-h0xf4s#ixzz59nPNKcYL

 

[Viet]

Hanoi/Canberra establising strategic partnership

 

[Viet]

Welcome to hell. Patch Ceremony for the new comer: Brig. Gen. Viet Luong, deputy commanding general of operations of the 8th US Army in S. Korea.

 

[Viet]

New recruits

 

[Viet]

In these days Vietnam remembers of My Lai masacre committed by US armed forces 50 years ago. The bloodbath lasting 4 hours on 16. März 1968 ends 504 lives including women und children.

 

[AViet]

including women and children is not a correct statement, Viet. Absolute majority of them are women and children.

 

[Viet]

including women and children is not a correct statement, Viet. Absolute majority of them are women and children.

you are right. most all the victims were women and children.

 

[Aqsuperman]

The overhaul of Vietnam ex Korean Pohang aka HQ-18

 

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Vietnam stops another oil project with the Spanish company Repsol in an apparent threat of war of the Chinese. I wonder what can be done to stop the Chinese clowns?

It will be sooner or later a time for a decision.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43507448

 

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Nice gesture with symbolism: the wife of the RoK President Kim Jung-sook receives 15 Vietnamese students in the president palace ahead of her husband President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Vietnam. Small countries need to unite against regional bully.

RoK President on a sales trip. Given the growth rate in trades, Vietnam will overtake the US and become the second largest trading partner of Korea in just 2 years after China, with bilateral trades exceeding $100b.

 

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Lavrov comments on Russia-Vietnam military cooperation
Military & Defense
March 23, 11:08

© Mikhail Japaridze / TASS

HANOI, March 23. /TASS/. Military and military-technical cooperation between Moscow and Hanoi meets criteria of the international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday after talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh.

"Russia and Vietnam share views on the problems of the world order and call for respecting the international law, the central role of the United Nations, a collective approach to solving any issues and solely peaceful methods of settling any disputes," Lavrov said.

Russia and Vietnam seek to set up "such an architecture of cooperation which would ensure sustainable development and meet interests of security" of all countries of the Asia-Pacific Region, Russia’s top diplomat said.

"Military and military-technical cooperation between Russia and Vietnam fully meets these criteria," he stressed.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should have a central and encouraging role in the joint efforts of building the new inclusive off-bloc architecture, Lavrov said.

ASEAN was set up on August 8, 1967 in Bangkok. The organization brings together Brunei, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. Russia has been ASEAN’s dialogue partner.

More:
http://tass.com/defense/995722

 

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Some news from the big country on the northern front

Starting from the war against Vietnam in the 1979, the PLA laid mine fields along the entire border to Vietnam. Just 21 from 53 mine fields were cleared by the PLA soldiers. Large parts of territories remain no-man land.