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[Viet]

Remember the Battle of Paracels of 1974

Unthinkable some years ago: a memorial site will be built on Ly Son island (South China Sea) to honor the soldiers who died protecting the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago. though it is not particularily mentioning, everyone can think the monument is dedicated to ROV Republic of Vietnam soldiers, who fought and died during the Battle of Paracel islands 42 years ago.

The statue is inspired by the image of a women waiting on the shore for their husbands and sons to return. however in some cases...her loved ones never return.

We remember of the days of 19 and 20 of January of 1974, when a naval task force of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) composing of 4 warships met the of chinese in the waters of Paracel Islands.

South Vietnamese warships in the battle

Trần Bình Trọng (HQ-5)

Nhật Tảo (HQ-10)

Lý Thường Kiệt (HQ-16)

Trần Khánh Dư (HQ-4)

the task force was supported by ROV Marines.

 

[Viet]

maybe a repost of a repost: standard weaponry of Kilo Submarines, 4,000 tons of displacement, 20 nm per hour cruising speed, can dive 300 m, 52-member crew aboard, endurance 45 days, max range 13,900 km.

any Kilo sub has 6 x 533mm tubes, can launch max 18 torpedos, variants TEST 71/76, VA-111 Shkval, range max 22 km.

Klub-S anti ship missile, speed Mach 2.9, range 200km.

anti sub missile 91RE1, range max 50 km.

Klub 3M-14E cruise missile against land target, speed Mach 0.8, range 300 km

 

[vtnsx]

Friends, enjoy my little creativity and wish you...View attachment 292402

what's up homeboy? where you in canada? we should go drinking.

 

[Aepsilons]

Tug-of-war in Naval Garrison

The guy in the center with naval blue camo pants. Are my eyes deceiving me or is is he wearing sandals? O - o ''

Is that a new version of dép lốp ?

 

[dichoi]

Friends, enjoy my little creativity and wish you...View attachment 292402

A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phases. This can be contrasted with the Gregorian calendar, which is a solar calendarbased on the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations (synodic months) in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months (354.37 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year.

A common purely lunar calendar is the Islamic (or Hijri Qamari) calendar. A feature of the Islamic calendar is that a year is always 12 months, so the months are not linked with the seasons and drift each solar year by 11 to 12 days. It comes back to the position it had in relation to the solar year approximately every 33 Islamic years. It is used mainly for religious purposes, but in Saudi Arabia it is the official calendar. Other lunar calendars often include extra months added occasionally to synchronize it with the solar calendar.

The oldest known lunar calendar was found in Scotland at Warren Field and dates back to around 8,000 BC.[1] Alexander Marshack, in a controversial reading,[2] believed that marks on a bone baton (c. 25,000 BCE) represented a lunar calendar. Similarly, Michael Rappenglueck believes that marks on a 17,000-year-old cave painting in Lascaux represent a lunar calendar.[3]

Most calendars referred to as "lunar" calendars are in fact lunisolar calendars. That is, months reflect the lunar cycle, but then intercalary months (e.g. "second Adar" in theHebrew calendar) are added to bring the calendar year into synchronisation with the solar year. Some examples are the Chinese, Hindu, and Thai calendars. Some other calendar systems used in antiquity were also lunisolar.

All these calendars have a variable number of months in a year. The reason for this is that a solar year is not equal in length to an exact number of lunations, so without the addition of intercalary months the seasons would drift each year. To synchronise the year, a thirteen-month year is needed every two or three years.

Some lunar calendars are calibrated by annual natural events which are affected by lunar cycles as well as the solar cycle. An example of this is the lunar calendar of the Banks Islands, which includes three months in which the edible palolo worm mass on the beaches. These events occur at the last quarter of the lunar month, as the reproductive cycle of the palolos is synchronised with the moon.[4]

Even though the Gregorian calendar is in common and legal use, lunar and lunisolar calendars serve to determine traditional holidays in many parts of the world, including India,Pakistan, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Nepal. Such holidays include Ramadan, Diwali, Chinese New Year, Loy Krathong, Tết(Vietnamese New Year), Mid-Autumn Festival/Chuseok and Nepal Sambat and the Mongolian New Year (Tsagaan sar).

Lunar calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Mokaman]

what's up homeboy? where you in canada? we should go drinking.

Canada is a huge country, my friend! I'm pretty sure we are far apart, I'm living in Montreal. By the way, I'm a big beer drinker and love to NHAU, guess that the good/bad old habit I kept from the army.. .....lol

A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phases. This can be contrasted with the Gregorian calendar, which is a solar calendarbased on the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations (synodic months) in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months (354.37 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year.

A common purely lunar calendar is the Islamic (or Hijri Qamari) calendar. A feature of the Islamic calendar is that a year is always 12 months, so the months are not linked with the seasons and drift each solar year by 11 to 12 days. It comes back to the position it had in relation to the solar year approximately every 33 Islamic years. It is used mainly for religious purposes, but in Saudi Arabia it is the official calendar. Other lunar calendars often include extra months added occasionally to synchronize it with the solar calendar.

The oldest known lunar calendar was found in Scotland at Warren Field and dates back to around 8,000 BC.[1] Alexander Marshack, in a controversial reading,[2] believed that marks on a bone baton (c. 25,000 BCE) represented a lunar calendar. Similarly, Michael Rappenglueck believes that marks on a 17,000-year-old cave painting in Lascaux represent a lunar calendar.[3]

Most calendars referred to as "lunar" calendars are in fact lunisolar calendars. That is, months reflect the lunar cycle, but then intercalary months (e.g. "second Adar" in theHebrew calendar) are added to bring the calendar year into synchronisation with the solar year. Some examples are the Chinese, Hindu, and Thai calendars. Some other calendar systems used in antiquity were also lunisolar.

All these calendars have a variable number of months in a year. The reason for this is that a solar year is not equal in length to an exact number of lunations, so without the addition of intercalary months the seasons would drift each year. To synchronise the year, a thirteen-month year is needed every two or three years.

Some lunar calendars are calibrated by annual natural events which are affected by lunar cycles as well as the solar cycle. An example of this is the lunar calendar of the Banks Islands, which includes three months in which the edible palolo worm mass on the beaches. These events occur at the last quarter of the lunar month, as the reproductive cycle of the palolos is synchronised with the moon.[4]

Even though the Gregorian calendar is in common and legal use, lunar and lunisolar calendars serve to determine traditional holidays in many parts of the world, including India,Pakistan, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Nepal. Such holidays include Ramadan, Diwali, Chinese New Year, Loy Krathong, Tết(Vietnamese New Year), Mid-Autumn Festival/Chuseok and Nepal Sambat and the Mongolian New Year (Tsagaan sar).

Lunar calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thank for the precision, I just don't think the term CHINESE new year is use in the right way. Yes the Chinese did start to use the lunar calendar but they didn't created the moon. Just like the Gregorian or Christian calendar we using today, are we going to say Christian New Year? Imagine greeting someone by saying Happy Christian new year, you could get you kill in some parts of the world..

 

[Aqsuperman]

The guy in the center with naval blue camo pants. Are my eyes deceiving me or is is he wearing sandals? O - o ''

Is that a new version of dép lốp ?

Yep he is :v He is a acting leader that check the formatiom stance ..........but usually involve screaming when the competition began . And we call it Dép Lào , aka Laotian Sandal

Jungle camo Su-30 with 2 R-27 and 2 R-73

 

[Aepsilons]

Yep he is :v He is a acting leader that check the formatiom stance ..........but usually involve screaming when the competition began . And we call it Dép Lào , aka Laotian Sandal

Jungle camo Su-30 with 2 R-27 and 2 R-73

Okay, appreciate the specifics!

 

[Viet]

a dream of 12 grader student: Vietnam 1st carrier strike group with 1 aircraft carrier and accompanied 15 warships.

 

[Soryu]

images and info taken from our northern neighbor: Vietnam controlled Cornwallis South Reef (Đá Núi Le). our people need to look at how the Chinese and Japanese create islands and learn from them.




Typhoon Blows Away Illegal Island Made by Vietnam in South China Sea
Pub Date: 16-02-03 09:02 Source: English--People's Daily Online

Satellite photos: Before (L) and after (R) the Typhoon Jamine

Photos of the recent satellite photos show that the island Vietnam has illegally built on the reef Nanhua Jiao in the South China Sea has been blown away by the Typhoon Jasmine, China Youth Net reported on February 2, 2016.

The illegal construction site of Vietnam on the southwestern corner of the reef

Typhoons are rarely seen in the region during December. It seems this Jasmine one at the end of 2015 was less than expected for Vietnam. Satellite photos taken on April 4, 2015, show that Vietnam had begun illegal construction to build a manmade island on China's Nanhua Reef.

The illegal construction site of Vietnam on the northeastern corner of the reef

Altogether a land of 0.03 square kilometers can be seen made on both the east and west side of the reef.

Some members from TTVNOL said that we're just sucking those sand up, bring it to build other reef, not relates to the typhoon ...

 

[vtnsx]

Some members from TTVNOL said that we're just sucking those sand up, bring it to build other reef, not relates to the typhoon ...

yeah, it would take a lot more than just typhoons to remove those sand off the islands just like that.

 

[yugocrosrb95]

a dream of 12 grader student: Vietnam 1st carrier strike group with 1 aircraft carrier and accompanied 15 warships.

Wow... He's good and having a dream is nice, specially if its achievable since Vietnam spends over 1 billion USD on modernization, right? That is enough for a brand new aircraft carrier.

yeah, it would take a lot more than just typhoons to remove those sand off the islands just like that.

Its cheaper and faster to relocate it than haul it all the way from the mainland...

 

[Aqsuperman]

Giving VN economical situaition , having an aircraft carrier will suck all the resource from anything :v

Once a legandary aircraft in VN war .......now most of it kind are going to be retired

 

[Viet]

History


Tet offensive shakes U.S. confidence over Vietnam, Jan. 30, 1968
By Andrew Glass


January 30, 2016


On this day in 1968, communist forces launched their largest offensive of the Vietnam War against South Vietnamese and U.S. troops. An estimated 80,000 troops of the North Vietnamese Army and National Liberation Front attacked cities and military establishments throughout South Vietnam during the traditional Tet holiday.

In coordinated attacks all across South Vietnam, dozens of cities, towns, and military bases were attacked. Commandos blasted through the wall surrounding the American Embassy in Saigon and attempted to seize the building. On their television screens, Americans were stunned to see fighting taking place on the embassy grounds.

Battles continued to rage throughout the country for weeks. The fight to reclaim the city of Hue from communist troops was particularly destructive. American and South Vietnamese forces lost over 3,000 men. Estimates of communist losses ran as high as 40,000. Most of the attacks were repulsed, with the communist forces suffering heavy losses.

a US artillery position with a 105 mm howitzer at the battle of Khe Sanh

U.S. Marines in the battle of Hue

U.S. Marines fight along side a M67A2 , during the Tet Offensive

Image Credit: NATIONAL ARCHIVES February 6, 1968. A Navy corpsman treats a member of the 2d Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during the battle for Hue. The Marines suffered nearly 1,000 casualties (killed and wounded) in the battle.

US President Lyndon B. Johnson at Cam Ranh Bay (Vietnam), October 1966



While the offensive was not a military success, its size and intensity shook the confidence of many Americans who had been led to believe by President Lyndon B. Johnson that the war would shortly be coming to a successful close. Support for the war began steadily to erode as public opinion turned against LBJ.

Vietcong soldiers during the offensive


In the aftermath of the offensive, Walter Cronkite, the anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” went to Vietnam. He concluded his reports with a personal commentary.

“Who won and who lost in the great Tet offensive against the cities,” Cronkite asked? “I’m not sure. The Vietcong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw. It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

“But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

Cronkite’s editorial would be widely viewed as a critical turning point in public opinion toward the war.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/tet-offensive-shakes-us-confidence-over-vietnam-jan-30-1968-218085#ixzz3zwEQywbQ

 

[tbquestion]

It seems that the Vietnamese has been a long-standing customer of Russian military goods, yet it perplexed me that they have never negotiate for any tech transfer in their purchases. The Indonesians however negotiated for all their high tech purchases with the standing technology transfer requirement of 35 %.

It has been reported that Indonesia has agreed to purchase 10 SU-35 in return for 35 % tech transfer. Confirmed: Indonesia Will Buy 10 Russian S-35 Fighter Jets | The Diplomat

Rumors has it that Vietnam has agreed to buy 12 or more of the Russian's SU-30sm, yet no word of tech transfer. Maybe its time, the Vietnamese should ask their Indonesian neighbor to teach them negotiating skills.