Vietnam Defence Forum

[Silent Knight]

the diplomat article I posted above mentions the chief of artillery corps wanting a new ballistic missile. I wonder what type of missile it can be? A high accurate missile with capacity to hit a target at 1,000 km distance would be nice.

Iskander, LORA, you name it.

Unfortunately the MTCR limits our options to 300km-range missile. If you want a longer range? Technology transfer or buy it secretly.

 

[Viet]

Red Star news (Russia) quotes Vladimir Popov, a rep of Yaroslavsky shipyard, the company may export landing craft "21820 Dyugon" class to Vietnam. especial bonbon for Vietnam Navy: the craft can be configured as Club-K cruise missile launcher or classical assualt ship for the Marine Corps.

 

[Viet]

Iskander, LORA, you name it.

Unfortunately the MTCR limits our options to 300km-range missile. If you want a longer range? Technology transfer or buy it secretly.

yes that is true. although the missile control regime is voluntary, I doubt any country be it Russia or India would sell or transfer any long range missile to our missile corps as they don´t want to anger a certain country too much. it can be the best option if we can develop in secrecy the scud to a long range modernizied version as the north koreans have done it.

Vietnams scud missile

or (it is not a possilibity yet though) we seek a missile shield from the strong military partner. US Admiral Harry Harris visits Vietnam coast guard 2 days ago. has he promised to build up our Coast guard fleet?

 

[Silent Knight]

Scud is an aging system with not many options for modernization in the future.

It'll be better to invest in newer systems like Iskander and LORA, although their range is limited.

 

[Viet]

haven´t heard anything of @Carlosa since a while

 

[Viet]

despite all talks and reports of the foreign media on Vietnam military build-up, which allegedly the biggest since end of Vietnam war, in reality the modernization and arms build up are slow and very humble. an example: the airforce seeks assistance of Russia to upgrade An-2 planes, that entered service when most of the posters here are not born


Vietnam, Russia in Talks on Modernizing An-2 Planes - Russian Institute

Military & Intelligence
06:59 28.10.2016

Vietnam An-2 plane

Vietnam is in talks with Russia’s Siberian Aeronautical Research Institute on modernization of tens of An-2 cargo planes (NATO reporting name Colt) which were supplied to the country by the Soviet Union, the institute’s financial director said. According to him, the planes’ hulls and engines will be modernized.

"Representatives of Vietnam who came for the institute’s 75th birthday expressed their interest in cooperation on modernization of An-2 planes belonging to their national air forces, the fleet of which stands at 40 vehicles. After this, they sent us a corresponding business proposal," Igor Shubin told the Izvestiya newspaper in an interview released on Friday. Shubin added that a number of Asian countries have in recent years expressed interest in modernizing their An-2 planes.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/military/201610281046821978-vietnam-russia-an2-modernization/

 

[Silent Knight]

The very first picture of Su-30MK2V no. 8594 in Vietnam. It was delivered in April, but the Russian was requested to keep silence until 6 months later.

 

[Carlosa]

haven´t heard anything of @Carlosa since a while

Carlosa is very busy in Thailand but never too far from the thread. I'll get back to normal next week. Keep up the good work.

 

[Silent Knight]

Might as well post another picture of the 8594, one of the last Su-30MK2 ever produced

 

[GS Zhou]

U still keep old junk like An-2 and scud? u think we worry about the stuff Russia sold to you? With a phone call from Beijing, any sales of real potential threat will be blocked

Fact is China matters much much more to Russia, her only ally to counter USA while u guys are nothing to them
And USA build missile shields for VCP, what are u smoking?

Hi dude, no need to make the posts like this. Y-5 (运五, the Chinese equivalent of An-2 ) is still in service in PLA Airforce today, for the basic paratroops training. Although I'm also a bit surprised to see Vietnam still needs to get the assistance from Russia for the An-2 overhaul.

Anyway, Vietnam has its right to make its military forces modernized.

 

[Silent Knight]

^ See? This kind of altitude makes people hostile.

 

[Aqsuperman]

And why not a single person here comes to China thread and actually "trash talking", we still occasionally got a few guys like above came over and started twisting around then end it with "nobody give a shit" ? Oh that is funny, then what the fck are you doing here if you dont care ? We force you to read our "trash talking" or stuff like that ? Fact ? Oh the fact is contradicted retards are simply scum which think the world only revolve around them and in their own super duper ideal way, that is a fact. "Polity" my ***, you frigging troll.

Put that aside now, this is the high time for local militia exercise in the year. And we can see a wide collection of last century weapons. And those weapons operate just fine in the hands of troops that way younger than them.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Members: This sticky thread serves as a "sub-forum" for Vietnamnese defence-related topics, please post properly, thanks.

 

[Viet]

Hi dude, no need to make the posts like this. Y-5 (运五, the Chinese equivalent of An-2 ) is still in service in PLA Airforce today, for the basic paratroops training. Although I'm also a bit surprised to see Vietnam still needs to get the assistance from Russia for the An-2 overhaul.

Anyway, Vietnam has its right to make its military forces modernized.

the an-2 planes will get new engines, the hulls receive a facelift. After the upgrade, the range will increase to 3,000 km, so double the current range the plane has at the moment. also the upgrade will enable the plane to take off on short runway. Since the aircraft is soviet origin, it makes sense to seek assistance from the Russians.

Carlosa is very busy in Thailand but never too far from the thread. I'll get back to normal next week. Keep up the good work.

Good to hear you are well

 

[Viet]

...posting pictures of foreign minister of Germany Frank Steinmeier´s three day visit to Vietnam. interesting, the german government names Vietnam as strategic partner and emerging economic power. The latter title (Wirtschaftsmacht) is especially interesting considering there are only few countries in the world Germany views as Wirtschaftsmacht. What has the news anything to do with defense? I will write it later. Possibly.

http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/nn_5.../Vietnam/161028_Reise_Vietnam.html?nnm=582138

arrival in Hanoi

opening a factory of Knauf in Haiphong