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Vietnam, South Korea open respective desks for police liaisons: report
Thanh Nien News
Friday, December 18, 2015 08:25

Vietnam and South Korea on Thursday launched new police units tasked with protecting citizens of the other country in either country.

Vietnam's Ministy of Public Security installed a Korean Desk tasked with protecting South Koreans in Vietnam.
The National Police Agency also opened a Vietnam Desk at its building in Seoul's Seodaemun district, charged with affairs involving Vietnamese nationals, according to a report on KBS World Radio.

Two officers who speak Vietnamese will be placed at the Vietnam Desk in Seoul while four Vietnamese officers with Korean language capabilities will be stationed at the Korean Desk in Hanoi, the report said.

The two desks will share investigation details on incidents in either country involving the other's citizens, according to KBS.

The two units will also serve to arrest and repatriate fugitives and exchange intelligence on criminals.
Vietnam's tourism authorities recorded about 998,000 arrivals of South Korean nationals in Vietnam in the first 11 months of this year.


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China opens defense hotline with Vietnam, ROK
by Wang Qingyun (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-12-31 21:41

Vietnam Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh (baochinhphu.vn)


The Ministry of National Defense has officially opened direct hotlines respectively with defense ministries of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea, a ministry spokesman disclosed on Thursday.

State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Chang Wanquan held the first direct hotline talks with his Vietnamese and ROK counterparts.

China is willing to work with Vietnam to "turn high-level consensus into concrete outcomes and properly tackle differences", Chang said in his phone conversation with Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh.

The China-Vietnamese relations have shown "gratifying momentum of continuous improvement", as President Xi Jinping and General Secretary the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng exchanged successful visits in 2015,Chang said.

Phung told Chang that Vietnam is willing to work with China to gain practical development of relations between the two militaries.

In his phone conversation with ROK Defense Minister Han Min-goo, Chang said China will strengthen exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and ROK militaries to "jointly maintain regional peace, stability and prosperity".


China opens defense hotline with Vietnam, ROK - World - Chinadaily.com.cn

 

[Viet]

Falmouth girl enjoys being part of victorious crew in the prestigious Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race (From Falmouth Packet)

nice. actually not a military news, but nevertheless I want to post here, continuing from the event I mentioned earlier. Da Nang-Vietnam team, the Vietnamese-sponsored Clipper Round the World Yacht Race won the first place in the race from Sydney to Hobart.

Wendy Tuck, the captain.

 

[Aqsuperman]

Ready to put in use at moment notice

 

[Viet]

a legacy of the Vietnam war: the biggest ever naval shell found. Officers from the UK-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG) on Wednesday successfully defused a giant Vietnam War-era shell unearthed from a garden in the central province of Quang Tri. the area had seen one of most tense fights. Unexploded ordnances (UXOs) remain a dangerous legacy, killing thousands of vietnamese, even when the war ends 40 years ago.

the shell was most probably fired by the USS New Jersey, the only US battleship deployed during the Vietnam war. a battlehip armed with 16-inch (406 mm) guns, commissioned in WW II.

 

[Viet]

a Su-30 bomber armed by unguided rockets against ground targets

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the first group of soldiers finished the training course in operating SPYDER, a mobile advanced surface-to-air missile system, manufactured by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. the system is designed to destroy enemy aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and guided precision bombs at low attitude.

 

[Aqsuperman]

Eat on the way :v

 

[Viet]

technicians installing bombs on Su30 bombers for a live ammunition exercise. KAB-500KR, electro-optical TV-guided "fire and forget" bomb.

concentration before take off

bombs will be released on targets from the height of 4,200 meters.

 

[Aqsuperman]

a variant of RAM 2000

 

[Viet]

New base: Satellite monitoring station in Vietnam to give India room in South China Sea region

By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, ET Bureau | 4 Jan, 2016, 01.05AM IST

Read more at:
New base: Satellite monitoring station in Vietnam to give India room in South China Sea region - The Economic Times

 

[Viet]

CONTENT PREVIEW
Industry
Vietnam's Viettel set to receive government investment to support expansion

Jon Grevatt, Bangkok - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
04 January 2016

Vietnam's state-run Military Telecommunication General Corporation (Viettel) is set to triple its charter capital, raising funds for further expansion.

The Vietnam government said on 4 January that Viettel's charter capital in the period 2015-20 will increase from VND100 trillion (USD4.4 billion) to VND300 trillion.

Charter capital represents the value of issued shares, meaning the government would be expected to make further investments in the company to support expansion activities.

These activities will be in line with government's stated intention to not only expand Viettel's presence in commercial telecommunications but also military industrial programmes by the end of the decade.

In 2015 Hanoi called on Viettel to "build itself into a strong group in the defence industry [sector]".

 

[Aqsuperman]

a SACLOS ATGM that augument the more numerous AT3 Sagger

 

[Carlosa]

South China Sea dispute: Vietnamese subs deployed as deterrent to China
January 7, 2016
Lindsay Murdoch

South China Sea dispute: Vietnamese subs deployed as deterrent to China

An older Russian-built, Kilo-class diesel submarine. Photo: Handout

Bangkok: The first of Vietnam's new advanced Kilo-class submarines have begun patrolling disputed waters of the South China Sea, as deterrents to China's 10 times-bigger navy, Vietnamese officials and diplomatic sources say.

Vietnam is also expanding use of its strategically important Cam Ranh Bay deep-water harbour, where six of the submarines will be based by 2017.

A submarine can be seen in the middle pier at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. Photo: Google Maps

The arrival of the submarines from Russia is a key part of Vietnam's biggest arms build-up since the height of the Vietnam War, which could significantly change the balance of power in the flashpoint South China Sea, analysts say.

As concern has increased about China's aggressive claims to almost all of the disputed water, Vietnam has been spending billions of dollars developing a submarine fleet, shore-based artillery and missile systems, multirole jet fighters and fast-attack ships, most of which have being bought from Russia and India.

Vietnam was also seeking more Russian jet-fighter bombers and was in talks with European and US arms manufacturers to buy fighter and maritime patrol planes and unarmed surveillance drones, Reuters said, quoting unnamed sources.

Cam Ranh Bay has been described as Vietnam's "ace up its sleeve" against China's vastly larger and better-equipped navy, air force and army. Photo: Google Maps

The country has also recently upgraded and expanded air defences, including obtaining early-warning surveillance radar from Israel and advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile batteries from Russia.

Vietnam's military spending had outstripped its south-east Asian neighbours over the past decade, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said.

Carlyle Thayer, a professor from Australia's Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said when all six of Vietnam's submarines were operational they would provide a potent strike capability with Vietnam's anti-ship and land attack cruise missiles, adding greatly to the country's ability to confront an enemy in its waters.

"These weapons systems should enable Vietnam to make it extremely costly for China to conduct maritime operations within a 200 to 300-nautical-mile band of water along Vietnam's coast, from the Vietnam-China border in the north-east to around Da Nang in central Vietnam, if not further south," Professor Thayer said in a Thayer Consultancy background briefing paper.

Professor Thayer, an expert on Vietnam's military and the South China Sea dispute, said Vietnam's ability to deploy stealthily would be put at risk if China permanently stationed anti-submarine warfare aircraft on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands, where China has built a 3000-metre airstrip and some basic infrastructure.

China landed a civilian plane on the strip on January 2, sparking a furious response from Vietnam, which labelled it a "serious infringement of the sovereignty of Vietnam".

Analysts said it was difficult to gauge Vietnam's actual capabilities and how well they were integrating complex new weapons systems.

But Professor Thayer said when all of Vietnam's current and future arms acquisitions were taken into account, "it is evident that Vietnam has taken major steps to develop a robust capacity to resist maritime intervention by a hostile power".

The diesel-electric submarines, also known as Varshavyanka-class, are designed for anti-submarine warfare, anti-shipping and anti-surface ship warfare, patrol and reconnaissance, and for the defence of naval bases and coastlines.

They are considered one of the quietest submarines, can operate in the South China's Sea's shallow water and have been upgraded constantly since the 1980s.

Analysts say they are more technologically advanced than other Russian-made submarines in China's fleet.

Analysts said Cam Ranh Bay was Vietnam's "ace up its sleeve" against China's vastly larger and better-equipped navy, air force and army, against which it fought a bloody war in 1979.

Vietnam has signalled it will invite non-Chinese navies such as Russia, the United States and Japan to send ships and submarines to the harbour for maintenance and logistics support.

The harbour, which was the US's centre of naval operations during the Vietnam War, provides ships easy access to the disputed water and the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Malacca.

The International Crisis Group has warned that the South China Sea risks becoming a theatre of big-power competition in 2016, as the US challenges China's large-scale land reclamation and construction on disputed reefs, which has set Beijing on a collision course with several south-east Asian nations.

A tribunal in The Hague is expected to announce its verdict in a landmark case filed by the Philippines accusing China of violating international law in the South China Sea, further raising tensions.

Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and China have overlapping claims to the territory.

More than $US5 trillion ($7 trillion) of trade passes every year through the South China Sea, which is also believed to hold huge deposits of oil and gas.

- with Reuters

 

[Aqsuperman]

Main firepower of Patrol Boat , certain weapon also come with a under-barrel mortar or net launcher of some kind

 

[Viet]

Vietnamese military hands over 20 hectares of airport land

Tuoi Tre news
12/29/2015

The Vietnamese military has announced that it will give away more than 20 hectares of land at an international airport in Ho Chi Minh City to support the country’s economic development.

The Ministry of National Defense will transfer over 20 hectares of land at Tan Son Nhat International Airport to the Ministry of Transport and other competent agencies, General Phung Quang Thanh said at a government meeting on Monday, adding that several similar transfers could be carried out to help spur Vietnam’s economic growth.

The land handover was decided as the operation and maintenance of military aircraft at the airport have hindered civil aviation activities, General Thanh, who is minister of defense, explained.

The Ministry of Transport initially asked for nine hectares and but the area was then increased to more than 20 hectares following several field trips by the defense ministry. Another piece of land 20 hectares in area is expected to be handed over to the Ministry of Transport in the future, General Thanh said.

Regarding the Cam Ranh military port in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, the facility will be modeled on an ‘open’ port, which not only serves as a military harbor but also provides entry for large-scale cruise ships and foreign vessels, the general said at the meeting.

Expected to be inaugurated in late February 2016, Cam Ranh will be similar to Singapore’s Changi, which facilitates the multilateralization, diversification and interlinked interests of the country.

The general added that businesses managed by the Vietnamese military have contributed US$2 billion in tax in 2015.

“Besides spending, the military also contributes to the national coffers,” he concluded.

 

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Using SU-30 as a bomber is expensive...