Vietnam Defence Forum

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PMP

once invented and produced in the Soviet Union, vietnam made PMP floating bridge.
a typical bridge spans 390 m with 32 river pontoons.

 

[Echo_419]

Su-30SM

Although Vietnam Airforce has not placed any order yet, but it appears the Su-30SM is the most likely next advanced fighter jet. Why Su-30SM, and not Su-35 (China airforce chooses Su-35S variant)?

Unlike Su-35, that only can carry Kh-31 and Kh-59 cruise missiles, Su-30SM can be equipped with India made supersonic cruise missile brahmos-A (specs: two stages, supersonic Mach 3, weight 2.5 tons, 300 kg warhead conventional, armor piercing or nuclear, 300-500km range, sea skimming, final terminal phase at 15 meters over sea level, active radar, GPS/Glonass guidance systems). the visit of General Thanh to India Prime Minister yesterday is a omen.

India is also planning a satellite station in Vietnam so that we can provide our eqvivlant of GPS/Glonass to you

from a vietnamese defence website

vpk-news.ru reveals Vietnam pilots are expected to go to India for flight trainings on Su-30, before end of this year 2015. second, the general Manager of AVIAPROM (a body that coordinates between aircraft manufactures in the Russian Federation) states Irkut Corp., the Su-30 jet manufacture will deliver the latest advanced aircraft to Vietnam.

the stage is set for Su-30SM with brahmos-A cruise missile.

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Great news long live indo-vietnamese ties

 

[Viet]

Su-30MK2

Night attack exercise

Landing on highways and short runways.

 

[Carlosa]

Great news long live indo-vietnamese ties

HARI OM TAT SAT

 

[Viet]

another high level visit to Vietnam, this time a guest from south korea.

Seoul's defense chief leaves for Vietnam for bilateral talks
2015/05/27 Yonhap

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo headed to Vietnam on Wednesday for talks with his counterpart there to explore ways to boost military cooperation, his office said.

During his three-day visit, Han is scheduled to meet with Phung Quang Thanh to discuss ways to boost cooperation in the defense field based upon the nations' "strategic cooperation partnership" clinched in 2009, according to Seoul's defense ministry.

"The two sides will also sign a memorandum of understanding on the bilateral Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) to lay the institutional groundwork for bilateral defense cooperation," the ministry said.

Seoul and Hanoi have discussed the signing of the agreement, which is the framework for logistics cooperation between armed forces, since 2011, with Seoul clinching the deal with major global powers including the United States and Australia.

Han is also to visit the Vietnamese military's elite unit of the mechanized division, and pay a courtesy call to the president, according to the Seoul ministry.

Following the trip to Vietnam, the defense chief will fly to Singapore on Friday to attend the Asia Security Summit, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue.

On the sidelines of the three-day dialogue to run until Sunday, Han plans to hold bilateral talks with his counterparts from the U.S. and Japan, as well as other regional partners, and hold a trilateral meeting with Washington and Tokyo, according to his office.

"How to better deal with ever-growing threats from North Korea will be the primary topic for a series of discussions in Singapore," a defense ministry official said, without further elaboration.

After wrapping up his military diplomacy, Han is to return home on Monday.



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May 28 Hanoi
Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh and his Korean counterpart Han Min-koo.

 

[Viet]

lastest news from the Kilo #4, Đà Nẵng.

the Dutch heavy transporter vessel Rolldock Storm has reached the West coast of Africa, heading to Indian ocean. expected to reach Singapore port at June 26 and Cam ranh bay at June 29 or 30.

 

[Viet]

Air Platforms
Vietnam deepens industrial ties with France and India

Jon Grevatt, Bangkok - IHS Jane's Defence Industry
27 May 2015

Vietnam has deepened defence industrial ties with France and India as part of Hanoi's efforts to secure technology transfers and develop indigenous capabilities.

State media in Hanoi reported on 27 May that senior officials from Vietnam's Ministry of National Defence (MND) and the international development arm of the French Ministry of Defence's Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) have agreed in meetings in Hanoi to explore further areas of defence industrial collaboration and related technology transfers and training.

Two days earlier Vietnam's defence minister Phung Quang Thanh signed a similar agreement in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar.

According to Vietnam's state media, representatives of France's DGA outlined a commitment to co-operate with Vietnam in modernising the country's armed forces through a programme of industrial collaboration.

 

[Viet]

Yeah why not. Our army can take the offer, do fight trainings on the vast Russian territory. In this world, there is no place for the weak. Either you die or your enemy.


Russia To Build Hundreds of Drones For Its Military By 2025

Despite economic woe, Russia continues to invest huge money into the modernization of the Armed Forces. In February 2015, Russia is reported entering into negotiation with Vietnam to conduct joint naval and air force drills as well as ground troops and air assault troops.

besides, Vietnam is reportedly interested to buying Russian strategic Iskander missile system (ground to ground), if necessary, to strike and neutralize enemy ballistic missile systems in the region. Iskander can carry either a conventional or nuclear warhead.

I read this news some time ago, but there is not much seen yet. there is report on comcom, Vietnam sent a group of soliers to the last strategic missile excercice in Russia involving Iskander.

The Iskander-M ballistic missile can carry a warhead of 800 kg to a distance of 400–500 kilometers with accuracy of 5 meters. Export version E has a shorter range and smaller warhead.

 

[Aqsuperman]

a rare visit from our neighbor Thailand. off-shore patrol vessel HTMS Narathiwat from the Thai Royal Navy arrived in Saigon on May 26, starting its visit to Vietnam till May 31.

this ship is more a warship than patrol ship.

this ship is actually a chinese-built ones , an offshore patrol vessel that a bit like the Saryu , recently there is rumor that soon VN will also export our patrol boat (TP-400TP) to a certain country in ASEAN

 

[kaku1]

Carlosa is at the heartland of the evil empire at the moment (for 2 or 3 weeks) in China and I'm suffering from a terrible internet connection. So much for the new chinese superpower, even a $10 a day crappy hotel in Vietnam has better Wi FI connection than $50 a day chinese hotels and even at the companies that I work with here, the connection is also very slow and this is in the area right next to Shenzhen. Sorry, but I'm not going to be showing up here very often while in China, so you have to hold the flag bro.

By the way, on top of the slow speed, can't get Gmail, Google search, Google news, anything Googgle in China, its all blocked and so is any url with the word "blog" in it and countless other websites such as Facebook. Life in china.............

@Viet @Yorozuya if there any interesting news at comcom, please post, can't get in there since its blocked in china. Life in china, what a liberating experience.......

Thank god they allowed .pk.

May 25. Surprised visit of General and defence minister Thanh to India, to PM Narendra Modi.
I make a bet: Thanh wants to know is there anything Vietnam needs to know about what Modi talked with China leader Xi Jinping recently.

@kaku1 do you know more info?

All are secrets bro,, and its very unusual that South Block ( Indian Foreign Ministry ) broke the protocol and he met directly with Prime Minister.

May 26
India and Vietnam Push Ahead with Strategic Security Cooperation | The Diplomat

For general public, ISRO setting up ground stations in Vietnam.

And maybe multi-object tracking radar is in list by ISRO, that can be used as detecting ballistic missiles during event of war.

 

[Carlosa]

Thank god they allowed .pk.

But imagine it china were to block PDF, all those chinese trolls would not be able to be in PDF. Now that would be a healthy step for PDF.

 

[kaku1]

India, Vietnam ink 5-year defence pact amid Chinese naval expansion
The document, for the period 2015-2020, was signed by the defence ministers of both countries after talks in New Delhi

A file photo of defence minister Manohar Parrikar. Photo: PTI
New Delhi:India and Vietnam late on Monday signed a five-year joint vision statement on defence cooperation to build closer strategic ties in the backdrop of an increasingly assertive China flexing its muscles in the South China Sea.
The document, for the period 2015-2020, was signed by India’s defence minister Manohar Parrikar and the Vietnamese minister for national defence General Phùng Quang Thanh after talks in New Delhi, according to a statement posted by India’s ministry of defence on social networking wesbite Facebook.
“An MoU (memorandum of understanding) on cooperation between the coast guards of the two countries was also signed in the presence of the two defence ministers,” the statement said without giving any details.
At the delegation level talks, the two sides discussed issues concerning defence cooperation, including cooperation in the area of maritime security.
“Both sides reiterated their commitment to further enhancing the ongoing defence engagements between the two sides for mutual benefit,” the statement added.
The signing of the document came on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured Thanh of India’s full commitment to the strategic partnership between the two countries during a meeting in New Delhi between the two.
Thanh, who arrived in New Delhi on Sunday, is on a three-day visit to India that comes amid growing concerns over China’s land reclamation project in the South China Sea, aimed at bolstering its territorial claims in the disputed area. The Chinese were looking at turning reefs into islands that can host airstrips and other military facilities, according to aReutersnews report.
According to news reports, the Vietnamese are keen on India training their submarirne personnel. India was also looking at selling the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile to Vietnam. But according to Indian government officials, the deal has not been finalised so far.
India and Vietnam, traditionally friendly countries, have forged an ever closer economic strategic relationship in the last decade after increasing Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea as well as India’s own ‘Act East’ policy.
Last year, there were at least three high-level interactions between India and Vietnam in three months—foreign minister Sushma Swaraj visited Hanoi in August ahead of a visit by President Pranab Mukherjee in September. During Mukherjee’s visit, India extended Vietnam a $100 million line of credit for defence procurement. In October, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visited India.

One question, you need to ask from where Vietnam can ask nuclear guarantees? What are the options for Vietnam in long term, strategically speaking.

 

[Carlosa]

Thank god they allowed .pk.

I just found out about the movie PK, is that what you were talking about? I thought you meant PDF when you said PK.

One question, you need to ask from where Vietnam can ask nuclear guarantees? What are the options for Vietnam in long term, strategically speaking.

Nuclear guarantees is not an easy thing to get.

 

[kaku1]

Nuclear guarantees is not an easy thing to get.

Yes not easy, but Vietnam have two options for future:-

First is USA and second is India.

 

[Carlosa]

Yes not easy, but Vietnam have two options for future:-

First is USA and second is India.

I think Vietnam needs some guidance from Ganeshji at this crucial times, the remover of obstacles.