Vietnam Defence Forum

[Nilgiri]

@Viet nice pics bro. Hope you and yours are staying safe.

 

[Viet]

@Viet nice pics bro. Hope you and yours are staying safe.

What can I say, a tsunami is coming.

 

[Viet]

Setting up the third military field hospital for the United Nations

Additional 70 military medical staff on the way to South Sudan

Not funny

South Sudanese government asked RoK to stop sending soldiers to the country due to the fear of coronavirus. Vietnam probably has to fill the gap.


Lực lượng gìn giữ hòa bình của Hàn Quốc tại Nam Sudan. (Nguồn: AP)

 

[Viet]

Too many legacy boats
Too few modern vessels

USSR Osa class

Quad P15 antiship missiles

New improved anti tank rockets

9M14

AT3 rocket

 

[Viet]

Oops

some sailors of USS Theodor Roosevelt that were among visitors to Vietnam lately are infected by coronavirus.

Tàu sân bay USS Theodore Roosevelt cùng tuần dương hạm USS Bunker Hill trên Thái Bình Dương, tháng 2.2020
Hải quân Mỹ

Máy bay đậu trên mặt boong tàu sân bay Theodore Roosevlet

Siêu tàu hiện ra sừng sừng như một tòa nhà khổng lồ giữa biển Đà Nẵng

Quốc kỳ Việt Nam – Mỹ được treo trang trọng trong thân tàu sân bay Theodore Roosevelt nhân chuyến thăm Việt Nam

Hai chiếc C2A của hải quân Mỹ tại sân bay Đà Nẵng

Đậu Tiến Đạt


Lực lượng biên phòng đo thân nhiệt người tham gia đón tàu



CG-52 được xem là một trong những tàu tuần dương hiện đại nhất

 

[Viet]

“Made in Vietnam” assault rifles Gk1 and Gk3

based on Israeli Ace assault rifles

Gk1

Gk3

Bomb run

 

[Viet]

breaking news

China first aircraft carrier burning

seems the ship is damaged beyond repair.

 

[IblinI]

breaking news

China first aircraft carrier burning

seems the ship is damaged beyond repair.

Mr genius, firstly it is not an aircraft carrier, secondly, it was mostly the smoke, would be delayed for weeks only.

 

[Viet]

Mr genius, firstly it is not an aircraft carrier, secondly, it was mostly the smoke, would be delayed for weeks only.

Ok my mistake

my best wishes to the crew of the vessel

 

[IblinI]

Ok my mistake

my best wishes to the crew of the vessel

No worry, all workers are safe.

 

[xuxu1457]

by the way, as US said, did US carrier got covid19 from Vietnam?

 

[flowerfan2020]

breaking news

China first aircraft carrier burning

seems the ship is damaged beyond repair.

China is building at least 8 of these big gifts to Vietnam at South China Sea.

 

[Viet]

by the way, as US said, did US carrier got covid19 from Vietnam?

We don’t know.
When the US carrier made the visit on March 4, we just had few infections.
Vietnam began very early with tightening the screw when there was report out Wuhan with unknown infections. On 7 January, thing began to accelerate, Vietnam began with visitor screening, quarantine and evacuation of Vietnamese out of China.
So I think it’s extremely unlikely that the carrier crew got infected in Danang.

https://ampe.vnexpress.net/news/new...itors-amid-china-pneumonia-scare-4038669.html

 

[Viva_Viet]

We don’t know.
When the US carrier made the visit on March 4, we just had few infections.
Vietnam began very early with tightening the screw when there was report out Wuhan with unknown infections. On 7 January, thing began to accelerate, Vietnam began with visitor screening, quarantine and evacuation of Vietnamese out of China.
So I think it’s extremely unlikely that the carrier crew got infected in Danang.

https://ampe.vnexpress.net/news/new...itors-amid-china-pneumonia-scare-4038669.html

Still unclear why



UPDATED: 8 Sailors on USS Theodore Roosevelt Have COVID-19; Port Calls Canceled as Navy Investigates Outbreak
By: Megan Eckstein
March 24, 2020 4:23 PM • Updated: March 26, 2020 8:30 AM


A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Tomcatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31 flies above the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Feb. 27, 2020. US Navy photo.

This post has been updated to reflect that additional COVID-19 cases have been discovered aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)

THE PENTAGON – Three sailors aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) have tested positive for COVID-19 and are being flown off the aircraft carrier to a Defense Department hospital in the Pacific region. These are the first cases of sailors on a deployed ship testing positive for the virus.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said the three were being removed from the ship as soon as possible after the positive diagnosis, and any sailors who have been in contact with them recently are being put in quarantine.

“This is an example of our ability to keep our ships deployed at sea underway even with active COVID-19 cases,” Modly said.

On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported five additional cases had been discovered on the aircraft carrier.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday declined to say where the carrier was now or what DoD hospital the sailors were flown to. Recent images show the carrier in the Philippine Sea, where it conducted at-sea exercises with Marine Corps and Air Force assets last week.

While an aircraft carrier is the most spacious ship in the fleet, more than 5,000 sailors are packed into the ship.

The Navy is still investigating how the outbreak on Theodore Roosevelt could have started. Gilday said it was unclear where the virus came from – the ship made a port call to Da Nang, Vietnam, 15 days ago, but aircraft have been coming and going with people and supplies.

“In the case of the carrier, she was last in port 15 days ago, but I think it would be difficult to tie down these active cases to that particular port visit. We’ve had aircraft flying to and from the ship, and so we just don’t want to say it was that particular port visit. We took great precautions when that crew came back from that shore period to do enhanced medical screening of the crew,” Gilday told reporters today in the Pentagon.
“We are moving very quickly to isolate those cases. In those cases, those sailors are running a temperature and they have some body aches, but we wouldn’t necessarily characterize them as requiring hospitalization. But they’re positive, those three cases. So we are rapidly removing them from the ship, and we are understanding who they came in contact with over the recent days and weeks so we can begin to take a look inside the ship, how we can isolate and contain as best we can.”

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maria F. Potts-Szoke, assigned to Naval Medical Research Center, prepares a sample for investigational analysis in Naval Medical Research Center’s mobile laboratory aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), March 19, 2020. US Navy photo.

Gilday added that the carrier has the capability to test for influenza to rule that in or out as a diagnosis. The carrier also has the ability to swab for COVID-19 and fly the swabs off the ship to the nearest DoD medical facility for testing, which takes just four to six hours after the swab arrives.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command on Feb. 27 instituted a policy of requiring 14 days between port visits, to ensure U.S. Navy ships weren’t spreading the disease around the Pacific. It was around that time that INDO-PACOM Commander Adm. Phil Davidson allowed Theodore Roosevelt to proceed with its planned port visit to Da Nang, which was significant given that Vietnam only allows one warship per country to visit its ports each year.

“At that particular time when the decision was made in late February or early March to pull the ship into Da Nang, which is on the central coast – at that time there were only 16 positive cases in Vietnam, and those were well to the north, all isolated in Hanoi. And so this is a very risk-informed decision by actually the INDO-PACOM commander Adm. Davidson on whether or not we would proceed with that port visit,” Gilday said.
“After the port visit we conducted a 14-day isolation period; we just hit day 15” today, the CNO added.

He told USNI News that the Navy is taking a hard look at how the sailors on Theodore Roosevelt could have contracted the disease so that the sea service can implement best practices for the 100 other ships deployed around the globe today.

“In each of these cases, whenever we have a positive on any ship or in any unit, we’re doing the forensics on each one of those cases and trying to understand what kind of best practices or the do’s and the don’t’s we can quickly promulgate fleet-wide. So I don’t have a better answer for you other than to say we’re on it,” he told USNI News during the question and answer session.

Still, port visits have been canceled, with deployed ships only being allowed to pull into a port if they need repairs or resupply. Even then, crew are restricted to the pier and cannot venture out into the port city.


Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Tennessee (SSBN-734) gold crew returns to its homeport at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, following a strategic deterrence patrol on Jan. 11, 2020. US Navy Photo

Gilday said the service is taking particular care with the crews on its ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), which conduct nuclear deterrence missions globally. Those crews are seeing enhanced medical screenings before heading out to sea for training or deployment, including a 14-day period of restricted movement to monitor for any emerging symptoms.

The submarine force has seen zero cases of COVID-19, Gilday made clear.

“We have not missed any operational commitments in the Navy at this time. The impacts to readiness force-wide have been low, but that’s not to say that this couldn’t spike at any given time,” the admiral said.
“We continue to watch this very closely, every ship, squadron and submarine.”

All told, the Navy has 86 active cases of COVID-19 as of today: 57 are Navy military personnel, 13 are Navy civilians, 11 are dependents and five are Navy contractors, Modly said during the event.

Despite those cases, “our ships are sailing, our planes are flying, and training is still happening to safeguard our U.S. national interests and those of all our allies and partners around the world.”
https://news.usni.org/2020/03/24/3-...-calls-canceled-as-navy-investigates-outbreak

 

[warzone]

China is building at least 8 of these big gifts to Vietnam at South China Sea.

So scary, we are all scare to death in Viet Nam...8 for Viet Nam, haha!! How many for USA, for Japan and for Taiwan???… 100 aircraft carriers, maybe 200? You think China and big mouth PLA are producing aircraft carriers like manufacturing TV ?? Start to build them first and then try to learn how it work before you open your big mouth, maybe in a couple decades!!! Those aircraft carriers are just big fat targets waiting to get hit with missiles and subs.