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I doubt the chinese begin a war, but sure, we must calculate with everythng.

we have license and technology to produce en masse antiship missile Kct-15, a variant of Kh-35. why don´t we pack them on quad launchers, on a truck, and place them at strategic points in case of crisis?


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When in doubt, better safe than sorry.
 
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a sensitive island, in the past only open for Vietnamese. the island lies close to China in the Gulf of Tonkin, now open for all foreign tourists:

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Will Vietnam File a South China Sea Case Against China?
Hanoi may yet take Beijing to court.

http://thediplomat.com/2016/08/will-vietnam-file-a-south-china-sea-case-against-china/

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By Shawn W. Crispin
August 03, 2016

Will Vietnam follow the Philippines in legally challenging through international arbitration China’s claim to territories it contests in the South China Sea (SCS)? Weeks after The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration’s landmark ruling on July 12, an international law based decision that delegitimized most of China’s expansive claims in its controversial “nine-dash line” map for the maritime area, Vietnam’s Communist Party leaders are under rising political pressure to leverage the precedent to press its own claims over the contested Paracel archipelago.

Vietnam’s foreign ministry welcomed the tribunal’s highly anticipated ruling, saying in a statement that it “strongly supports” dispute resolution in the SCS through “peaceful measures, including diplomatic and legal procedures.” The statement also reaffirmed Vietnam’s claim to the two archipelagos (the Spratlys and the Paracels) under the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). State media have since published a series of comments by local officials and experts who have argued for filing a similar arbitration suit against China at the Hague.

Legal experts say that the tribunal’s ruling has fortified Vietnam’s position vis-à-vis China. First, the decision found China’s nine-dash line map based on so-called “historic rights” over islands and features in the South China Sea incompatible with UNCLOS and without legal basis. Second, the tribunal found that none of the contested features in the Spratly archipelago legally constitute “islands,” thereby nullifying China’s claim of a 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) extending from the features it controls in the disputed island chain. Vietnam does not claim 200 mile EEZs in either the Spratlys or Paracels.

Tran Cong Truc, former head of Vietnam’s border affairs committee, wrote on July 22 in state newspaper Giao Ducthat the ruling provided sufficient legal grounds for Vietnam to bring China to international court. While the PCA’s ruling undermined China’s EEZ claims in the Spratlys, Truc wrote that the same legal argument about what constitutes an “island” could be used to challenge China’s 200 mile EEZ claim over the Paracels. (The Paracels were not covered in the Philippines’ complaint.) Truc also argued Vietnam could take legal action against China’s persistent abuse of its fishermen, including cases of murder and sunken vessels, in the contested archipelago.

The former senior official at the same time advised caution, reflecting the Communist Party leadership’s reluctance to overtly confront Beijing. “As to when Vietnam should do this, we need to think very carefully, taking into account the political climate and environment we are facing,” Truc wrote. “Vietnam has to think, ‘would taking legal action against China increase tensions’? … For now no court is more powerful than the court of international opinion. This court has caused China much more tension and frustration than any legal arena that China has refused to take part [in].”

If Beijing accepted the legal basis of the decision, then there would no longer be any overlapping areas between Vietnam’s central coast-based EEZ and China’s nine-dash line map, according to analysts. China has so far been defiant against the non-binding ruling, including the decision legally relevant to the Paracels that “the Spratly Islands cannot generate maritime zones collectively as a unit.” China used its 200 mile claimed EEZ off the Paracels to justify the placement of its HD-981 oil rig into Vietnamese claimed waters in mid- 2014, sparking a crisis that led to fatal anti-China rioting in central Vietnam and a sharp deterioration in bilateral ties.

“Early signals indicate that China does not plan to retreat from claiming historic rights within the Nine-Dash Line, which likely include entitlement to fisheries and hydrocarbon resources,” International Crisis Group analyst Yanmei Xie wrote in a commentary. “Its claim to internal waters suggests China may consider drawing a baseline around the entirety of the Spratly island chain, claiming internal waters within the baseline and maritime entitlement outward from it.”

Days before the verdict, Vietnamese officials accused China’s coastguard of sinking one of its fishing boats near the Paracel Islands. Reports said the fishermen spent hours in the water before another Vietnamese fishing vessel was permitted to rescue them. In a separate incident days after the ruling, Vietnamese border patrol vessels chased six Chinese fishing boats out of waters off the coast of central Quang Binh province, also near the Paracels. Vietnamese state media reports cited the exact latitude and longitude of the alleged incursion to be ten miles inside the line of the recognized common fishing area.

China’s perceived aggression before and after the PCA ruling have brought activists and apparatchiks into nationalistic alignment. Nguyen Thein Nhan, a politburo member and president of the pro-government Vietnam Fatherland Front, told the National Assembly on July 20 that the public is increasingly concerned over Chinese harassment of Vietnamese fishermen in the country’s traditional fishing grounds and that the government needs to take “urgent actions” to contend with Chinese expansionism and militarization in the disputed archipelagos. Nhan portrayed China’s recent acts as “serious violations” of national sovereignty.

That view was amplified by Le Cong Dinh, a prominent human rights lawyer and former political prisoner. “The PCA ruling puts the Vietnamese government and Communist Party in a difficult position: from now on they can no longer do what they wish, which is to hold bilateral talks with China in order to resolve maritime disputes,” Dinh said in a recent commentary. “As reflected in the PCA ruling, resolving SCS disputes and starting legal proceedings against China has become an international issue. This is what the Vietnamese people want and the Vietnamese Communist Party and government must listen to their demand.”
 
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You know China has many ways to wipe out viet from the planet earth.
1. destroy all your electricity plants,dams,roads and ports.
2. neutron bomb.
3.redirect rivers that flow to viet.
.....etc:-)
Take easy, pls here is Vietnam military news we'd better avoid quarrel. Said these to Mr @Viet just make no sence.
 
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Yes or No?

Russia media reports Vietnam land army is to receive 200 x T-90 tanks MS series. Forming the first modern panzer division.


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Originated in the USSR, deployed during the Vietnam war, continue to be a part of aerial defense


SA-2 surface-to-air missile



SA-3 surface-to-air missile
 
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The G20 meeting in September is in China, so they will behave until that time, afterwards is a risky time, particularly While USA is busy with the election.
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Few months are too short for a long-term job. "Prepare for a possibly conflict"
But it's still good for hardening a job started thousands years ago.

China wouldn't give the reason for US, India, Japan, SK ... to donate weapons to Vietnam
 
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The first private military museum of Vietnam. Thanks to Robert Taylor, a Briton. a private collection over 50 years. Probably the largest of this kind in the world. as many as 2,500 historic weapons are displayed. besides, army custumes, flags, etc.


Vietnam. national hero Quang Trung (1753-1792), leading vietnamese army to victory over the Manchu army.
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british army
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mongolian army
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Sea Platforms
Vietnamese amphibious force trains 'island recapture'
Richard D Fisher Jr, Washington DC
- IHS

Jane's Defence Weekly
03 August 2016


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The naval infantry force of the Vietnam People's Navy (VPN) has conducted an exercise simulating the recapture of an island. This image of the drill, which likely took place in mid-July, shows a VPN Polnochny-class tank landing ship deploying a PT-76 light amphibious tank. Source: Via QPVN


The naval infantry force of the Vietnam People's Navy (VPN) has conducted an exercise simulating the recapture of an island: a drill that seems to underscore Hanoi's concern about China's growing assertiveness and military build-up in the disputed South China Sea (SCS).

Footage from the exercise was aired on 25 July by the Vietnam National Defence television channel (QPVN). The drill included at least two of the VPN's three Polnochny-class (Project 771) tank landing ships, which deployed a number of PT-76 light amphibious tanks.

This was followed by naval infantry in small boats and a number of 10-tonne BTR-60PB armoured personnel carriers being deployed on beaches. The exercise did not appear to have included either naval gunfire or aerial support.

While the actual date of the drill was not revealed, analysts say that it likely took place after the Permanent Court of Arbitration's (PCA's) 12 July ruling on the legality of Beijing's territorial claims in the SCS.

The court in The Hague ruled that Beijing's claim to 'historic rights' within most of the disputed waters has no legal basis. The PCA decided on a case brought by the Philippines, which argued that Chinese activity in the region was violating international law. Vietnam is now also considering bringing its own case to the PCA.

Beijing claims most of the SCS on the grounds it is asserting 'historic rights' to maritime resources in the area. China has also embarked on creating controversial artificial islands in the disputed waters, some of which have airstrips and military installations.

This has prompted territorial disputes with neighbouring states such as Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, which stake competing claims.

Vietnam occupies about 24 islands and reefs in the disputed Spratlys, including islands close to China's newly reclaimed bases on Subi Reef and Gaven Reef.
 
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