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[Aqsuperman]

M-72 launcher , now use as a way to deliver incendary rocket

 

[Aqsuperman]

PSG-1 , SVD , Galatz and some modernize Mosin are all the sniper rifle currently employed by the VPA

 

[Viet]

PSG-1 , SVD , Galatz and some modernize Mosin are all the sniper rifle currently employed by the VPA

nice sniper rifle. I like it.

changing topic

Interesting development: Japanese Media (Nikkei) reports during the upcoming visit of Japan defence minister Gen Nakatani to Vietnam, Japanese government seeks to negotiate sending for the first time ever warships for visits and exercises with Vietnam in the SC Sea, starting 2016. exciting times ahead. I think the chinese have no reason to complain. they are the one that seeks confrontation.

Regiment 202 on a exercise

the tank regiment 202 has a glorious and bloody history during the Vietnam war, one of most braven tank units of the North Vietnamese Army, engaging in many battles, here one of bloodiest battles of the war: the battle Quang-Tri of 1972.

 

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Vietnam Airforce

Pilot training on high performace jet trainer Aero L-39 Albatros

 

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Vietnam Gives Noncommittal Response to US Patrol in S. China Sea


USS Lassen (DDG 82) operates in international waters near the Chinese People's Liberation Army (Navy) Jianghu V-class frigate Dongguan (560) while on patrol in U.S. 7th Fleet at South China Sea, Sep 29, 2015.


Tra Mi
Last updated on: October 29, 2015 8:54 PM

Two days after the United States sailed a warship within the 12-nautical-mile zone of man-made islands in the hotly disputed waters of the South China Sea, Vietnam has given a noncommittal response to the incident.

While most nations in the region responded quickly to the event, Vietnam stayed silent until Thursday, when a foreign ministry spokesman in Hanoi was asked a question about the incident.

Without directly criticizing China or the U.S., spokesman Le Hai Binh told reporters that Vietnam respects the freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea consistent with relevant provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea as well as its national laws.

However, others in Vietnam have called for their government to be supportive of the U.S. action.

Prominent social and political activist Pham Minh Hoang told VOA's Vietnamese service that Hanoi needs to find ways to reduce China's influence over the country.

"We need to find ways to put the Vietnamese government on high alert amid China’s expansion and influence. It’s time Hanoi needs to seek for allies like the U.S. to cope with China," he said. "It’s disappointing that they’re not taking the golden opportunity when the U.S. is challenging China’s sovereignty claims in the South China Sea to take a stronger stance against China to exit China’s orbit."

But historian Nguyen Nha said the time is not yet right for such a move.

"Vietnam can’t get away from China’s hands until it actually becomes a TPP member which helps open a new gate for Hanoi to develop economically and politically without China. This is really a big issue," he said. "Of course we want the Vietnamese government to take a tough stance against China, but Vietnam’s current situation is extremely difficult."

Vietnam, which is one of several countries that has competing maritime claims with China, has tried to maintain a delicate balance between complaining and trying to work with Beijing.

Last year, Beijing was sharply criticized by Vietnam when it placed an oil rig in disputed waters, leading to several small maritime confrontations and deadly rioting in mainland Vietnam.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled in Hanoi next week for a visit aimed at improving relations.

But last week, more than 100 Vietnamese activists wrote an open letter to government authorities urging them to rescind the invitation to Xi.

Social activist La Viet Dung, one of the signatories, said China’s aggressiveness with regard to South China Sea reclamation projects led him to sign the letter.

Japan and the Philippines, which each have their own maritime territorial disputes with China, have both welcomed the U.S. decision to enter the area around the Chinese man made islands.

Beijing has called it a "deliberate provocation", but Washington has said its "freedom of navigation" exercise was completely legal and routine, and was not meant to question China's territorial claims.

This report was produced in collaboration with the VOA Vietnamese service.

 

[Aqsuperman]

looking forward to the day of missiles arned-UAV

 

[Viet]

well if it´s me, I hope the russian government finally okays the sale of Iskander tactical balistic missile. the warhead can be either conventional or nuclear. if approved, that will put the Russia-China "friendship" to a test. let see if their friendship survives.

 

[Viet]

Spratlys: images from land reclamation works of last year. recently released. one can expect such things continue days and nights...increasing land mass, improving infrastructures, and building up defence facilities. I hope heavy machineries will soon arrive to speed up the process.

 

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[pher]

Spratlys: images from land reclamation works of last year. one can expect such things continue days and nights...increasing land mass, improving infrastructures, and building up defence facilities. I hope heavy machineries will soon arrive to speed up the process.

Showing off your jungle spirits again??? but it will only take us 5 secs to canel your hard labour of 10 years, stupid veits.

 

[Viet]

Showing off your jungle spirits again??? but it will only take us 5 secs to canel your hard labour of 10 years, stupid veits.

empty threat. if you can do, you had done long ago.

 

[pher]

empty threat. if you can do, you had done long ago.

It is not a threat, just a situatioan analysis. of course, we will do it after at least 10 years' exghustion of your resources, just like we massively make the man-made isands now rather than before, it is all about timing.

 

[Aqsuperman]

Showing off your jungle spirits again??? but it will only take us 5 secs to canel your hard labour of 10 years, stupid veits.

It is not a threat, just a situatioan analysis. of course, we will do it after at least 10 years' exghustion of your resources, just like we massively make the man-made isands now rather than before, it is all about timing.

LOL learn to speak proper English if you intend to deliver threat (or troll) in it :v and Chinese timing ? always been bad since the founding of the nation up to today , the last time China try to do some "timing" with us , 30000 Chinese lost their lives , before that every other "timing" turn out be shitty as well , "will , after , later , in the end , blah blah blah " , more like a saleman try to sell shitty stuff than a "situatioan analysis" :v

 

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It is not a threat, just a situatioan analysis. of course, we will do it after at least 10 years' exghustion of your resources, just like we massively make the man-made isands now rather than before, it is all about timing.

we still have some surprises for you.

Russia is willing to offer Kalibr cruise missile for next generation of Vietnam surface warships. so the Molynia would likely carry additional Kalibr, a land attack missle, instead of only Uran-E antiship missiles today. if you don´t know what Kalibr is, just ask the IS terrorists, because they had tasted the missiles from the russian warships recently.

Vietnam Molynia corvettes

 

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we still have some surprises for you.

Russia is willing to offer Kalibr cruise missile for next generation of Vietnam surface warships. so the Molynia would likely carry additional Kalibr, instead of only Uran-E antiship missiles today. if you don´t know what Kalibr is, just ask the IS terrorists, because they had tasted the missiles from the russian warships recently.

Vietnam Molynia corvettes

we can destroy your whole country anytime we want, it is all about timing. no matter how much suprising you carried. remember viets, the only target of us now is america, and we will come back to be number one in the world again as we did in most time of human history.