One thing that catches my eyes reading this is the ship has anti-submarine capability at up to 100 km?:o:
Btw, why doesn't India pack this ship with the S-300PMU2? Its missile is 200 km while the Barak is only 70-120 km?
More pics of construction at West Reef (Point A)
West reef (Point B). In the background is construction work at West reef Point A and our fishing boats
Since you guys construct on this Gac Ma reef where 64 of our troops were killed in 1988; it is official that I hold 1.4 billion of you guys the same as each other. Thanks to Thiem Thu, the journalist of Vietnam's Tien Phong newspaper for exposing this.
This is the Gac Ma reef that China invaded and killed 64 of our unarmed troops on an unarmed transport boat in 1988. Since u guys occupy no island (just submerge reef); it is more pressure on you guys to build an actual island on a submerge reef than us.
Unofficial source tells us that the project is finished. However, Russian just send over CKD kits for us to assemble the missile. They do not transfer tech to us for manufacturing the engine and radar seeker.
This scenario is like the Chinese with over 3 trillions of forex would offer to buy the Spratly from us.
You never sell 100,000 sq km of your territory; land is priceless. The best you can do is territory swap.
Just read on the news, Vietnam Central Bank has announced that Vietnam's current forex reserve is $35 billion usd. Damn, we went from a low base of about $1 billion in 2002 to $35 billion in 2014. :o: If we can reach $100 billion by the end of this decade; that would be awesome:p:
That was the sole reason why they initiated the 1979 war but they can't say that; they had to use the "ethnic cleansing" reason instead. They were so pissed at us for shelling Phnom Penh full of Chinese advisers during our 1979 war with the Rouge. :-)
Stealth is a very sensitive technology. It gives the U.S the edge over the rest. You cannot hope that they will transfer their most advanced tech to anyone. If the U.S is not willing to sell the F-22 to Britain, what makes u think they will transfer the know-how to make stealth jet to anyone?
Yeah, one of the most respectable contemporary Viet sources is considered as "propaganda". Sure, buddy. We believe in our history written by our contemporary figures than some joe blow historians who make up historical "facts about us