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Vietnam's Su-30MK2V fighters drill air raids exercise

FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013 Asitimes

 

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Vietnamese air defense plans to equip Pantsir-S1

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 Asitimes

The famous Vietnamese defense information gate Tien Phong Newspaper report that some Russian military sources revealed on Vietnam sending trainees to Russia for training transferred and mastering some modern weapons of Russia including the combinations of Pantsir-S1, Tor, Buk ...

These are the new generation of Russian air defense weapons, useful for air defense of tactics and points. The mobility air defense combinations, which equip short-range missile, flaks, sophisticated electronic warfare devices, can destroy targets such as low-flying aircraft, unmanned aircraft, cruise missiles ...

Pantsir-S1 (NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound) is a combined short to medium range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapon system produced by KBP of Tula, Russia. The system is a further development of SA-19/SA-N-11 and represents the latest air defence technology by using phased-array radars for both target acquisition and tracking.

Pantsir-S1 is opening fire

 

[visom]

This is about vietnamese military, not Chinese. Get out.

 

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I'm sure we will buy the Buk missile system to replace the SA-2 but I'm not sure whether we will choose the Pantsir or Tor. My prediction is by 2018-2020, we will have modernized our air defence network that encompasses high-medium-low altitude/range missile systems such as:

S-300
S-400
Buk M2
Pechora 2TM
Pantsir (I like this)
Igla-S
SPAAG

Add the Su27, Su30, and the Su35 to this air defence network and it will be a no-fly zone for the dogs

 

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Vietnam Gepard stealth frigates

Main firepower is the combination of anti-ship cruise missiles Uran-E (8 units) placed in the middle of the hull. Uran-E missile can reach a maximum range of 130 km. Per Vnesea, Vietnam has locally produced a kind of missile similar with Uran-E called X-35 with range of 300km.

 

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Loading P-5 Shaddock antiship missiles, range 550 km, Mach 1.4

Vietnam can self produce the missiles.
http://asitimes.blogspot.com/

 

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The 4K51 Rubezh land-based antiship missile system of Vietnam


SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013 Asitimes

The 4K51 Rubezh anti-ship missile systems (NATO reporting name SSC-3, range 80km, speed Mach 0.9) have been use in the Vietnam People's Navy, supported in the 1980s from the Soviet Union to equip the Missile- Artillery Coastal Defense Regiment, a new unit of arms established after the Vietnam War, the 4K51 has served in the Vietnam People's Army for nearly 30 years and has become one of the "missile shield" under managing of the 679th Coastal missile Regiment to protect its territorial sovereignty over the East Vietnam Sea (the South China Sea).

The combinations of 4K51 Rubezh, 4K44B REDUT-M and K-300P Bastion-P is the three most modern coastal defense shield of Vietnam.

 

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The Vietnam Navy soldier training with many new weapons and system.

Source: vnexpress.net

 

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Australia to help Vietnam prepare UN mission

From: AAP March 19, 2013 3:39PM The Australian

AUSTRALIA and Vietnam will strengthen defence links as Vietnamese troops prepare for their first United Nations peacekeeping mission.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith met Vietnam's Minister of National Defense General Phung Quang Thanh for the inaugural annual Australia-Vietnam Defence Ministers' meeting in Canberra on Tuesday.

Mr Smith said 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Vietnam and a close and prosperous relationship had developed.

"This includes a strong defence relationship, which has grown in recent years based on practical cooperation, people-to-people links and dialogue on strategic and defence issues," he said in a statement.

Australia will also provide training to Vietnam as it prepares to deploy troops on United Nations peacekeeping missions for the first time, Mr Smith said.

Eighty places for military and English training will be offered in Australia including a further post-graduate scholarship position for the Vietnam People's Army in 2014.

It takes the total post-graduate scholarship positions offered to Vietnam to 11 in 2013 and 12 in 2014.

"Minister Thanh and I also undertook to look for further opportunities to enhance military engagement, including in areas such as maritime security cooperation," Mr Smith said.

 

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Air Defence

Minute break of Battalion 166, 276 Missile Regiment

 

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on the TV

MIG-21

Do you know her?

 

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Hanoi’s young men join the army

Last update 26/02/2013 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of February 25, hundreds of young men in Hanoi said goodbye to their friends and relatives to join the army.

 

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US mulls P-3 MPA sale to Vietnam

LAAD Defence and Security 2013: US mulls P-3 MPA sale to Vietnam

By Gareth Jennings

4/12/2013

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is expected to request from the US government the sale of Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), a senior company official told IHS Jane's on 10 April.

Speaking at the LAAD Defence and Security 2013 exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Clay Fearnow, director maritime patrol programmes, said the Vietnamese Navy was keen to buy up to six surplus P-3s to help patrol the country's nearly 3,500 km coastline and 1,396,299 km2 Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

"The Vietnamese Navy has expressed a lot of interest [in the P-3], and there is [US government] support to move forward," said Fearnow.

According to Fearnow, any P-3s sold to Vietnam by the US would in the first instance be non-weaponised, being fitted exclusively with an MPA mission kit such as forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors and other systems. However, he noted that as relations between the two countries continue to improve there could be scope for weapon systems to be provided at a later date.

Fearnow said Lockheed Martin would recommend they opt for the latter P-3C aircraft, as they are the most advanced and have the fewer airframe hours on them.

LAAD Defence and Security 2013: US mulls P-3 MPA sale to Vietnam

 

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A good summary of Russia-Vietnam military relationship



Moscow regains lost ground with Hanoi


After Algeria and India, Vietnam is next in line to become a strategic partner of Moscow in the area of military-technical cooperation.

March 12, 2013 Dmitry Litovkin, specially for RIR Russia-India Report

Russia seriously intends to strengthen its positions in South East Asia. That is the conclusion of experts following a recent visit by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Vietnam. After Algeria and India, Vietnam is next in line to become a strategic partner of Moscow in the area of military-technical cooperation. In the very near future, Hanoi will be supplied with modern air and coastal defense systems, fighters, and non-nuclear submarines. Russian military academies are also set to begin training Vietnamese military personnel.

Shoigu's visit to Hanoi can be considered historic. He has effectively reopened the country, which Russia was forced to leave in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time, Vietnam was one of its main allies and partners in the region, and Moscow and Hanoi enjoyed close military-technical cooperation. Since Soviet times, the Vietnamese city of Cam Ranh had been a logistics point for the Russian Navy, and a 25-year lease agreement on a gratuitous basis was concluded between in 1979. But in 1989, Vietnam expressed a desire to receive payment for the base. As a result, in 2001 President Vladimir Putin decided not to renew the contract and to decommission the base ahead of schedule. One of the reasons was the lack of military funding; another was Russia's specific interests in the region.

A turning point in the history of bilateral cooperation was President Nguyen Minh Triet's visit to Moscow in October 2008. During the visit, an intergovernmental memorandum on cooperation in the sphere of military-technical cooperation was signed through 2020. As a result, in the last three years alone Russia and Vietnam have signed contractual obligations for the supply of military equipment worth more than $5.5 billion.

Vietnam is one of Russia's key partners in the area of military-technical cooperation. Russia supplies the country with submarines, missile boats, modern fighters, and aviation weapons. It is also a crucial partner in many other related fields. In particular, Russia is building a nuclear power plant in Vietnam and producing oil in the country's offshore coastal zone, says Ruslan Pukhov, head of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST).

The special place occupied by Vietnam in the field of military-technical cooperation is evidenced by Moscow's delivery of 20 Su-30MK2 fighters for $1.5 billion. The planes are among the most advanced in the world. Russia's latest combat training aircraft, the Yak-130, is now gaining ground in the Vietnamese market. This next-generation machine is of interest not only as a pilot trainer, but also as a light attack aircraft.

Also on the table is the MiG-29 SMT, and Vietnam has shown interest in purchasing a batch of Il-476 military transport aircraft with new PS-90A engines. Production of the latter began this year at the Aviastar plant in Ulyanovsk. Within the framework of cooperation in the field of military aviation, JSC Sukhoi is in talks to set up a regional center in Vietnam to service Su-series aircraft.

In 2011, Vietnam became the largest recipient of Russian naval equipment. According to CAST, the country procured a Gepard-3.9 frigate (Project 11661E) for $175 million and four Svetlyak patrol boats (Project 10412) at a total cost of $120 million. The vessels are armed with the Klab strike complex and Kh-35 Uran missiles. As part of these supplies, Moscow and Hanoi plan to develop a joint missile analogous to Russia's Kh-35 Uran. It will be developed on the same principle as the BrahMos project, a Russian-Indian joint venture.

The Uran is one of the most advanced Russian anti-ship cruise missiles. It can be launched from a surface or underwater vehicle (the Klab complex), or as part of the Bal-E coastal anti-ship complex. The Kh-35 is unique in that it is immune to enemy radar interference. Besides active mode (when the target seeker is enabled in a split second), the missile can also fly in passive mode, i.e. in full radio silence, whereby instead of scanning the surrounding space, it detects pulses emitted by the target. The aircraft flies at a height of 2-3 meters above sea level — below the deck of a ship, making it undetectable to radar. Incidentally, this capability is highly rated by the United States. It is rumoured that the homing head of the Kh-35 will be fitted on the U.S. ASM Harpoon.

No less promising in the area of mutual cooperation with Hanoi is the supply of modern air defense systems. In the summer of 2003, it concluded a contract for the supply of two batteries of S-300PMU-1 anti-aircraft missile systems worth approximately $230 million. The complexes partially replaced the Soviet-era S-75 air defense system, which had been in service in Vietnam since 1965. There is also the issue of modernizing the S-125 Pechora, currently in operation and of which there exist around 40. Moscow is offering to upgrade them with the Pechora-2M, a modernized variant.

Despite the advancing years of the S-125 system, the Pechora-2M is an entirely new development.

For example, 90 percent of the electronics have been replaced. It all meets the latest requirements, ranging from the computer processors to the color LCD displays providing an overview of the aerial situation. The new complex allows the launch facilities to be sited 10 km from the control room and antenna station (instead of the previous 70 m), which significantly increases the survivability of the complex under enemy fire.

The modernized SAMs have twice as many launchers (eight instead of four), double the target detection range in conditions of radio interference, and five times the mean time between failures. Moreover, the nomenclature of spare parts has been reduced tenfold: from 3000 to 300. Crucially, the Pechora-2M also features thermal imaging for night-time operation in passive mode, which makes the complex practically invisible to enemy intelligence. But the main know-how lies in the radar defense system: a device the size of a shipping carton diverts self-guided enemy missiles away from the Pechora-2M antenna station.

During his visit to Hanoi, Sergei Shoigu said that Moscow was fulfilling a contract to supply non-nuclear submarines to Vietnam, as well as to train crews for them.

The contract for the supply of six Varshavyanka submarines under Project 636 (two have already been delivered) was signed in late 2009. The deal is worth $1.8 billion, and all the submarines will be equipped with the Klab missile complex. In addition, Moscow will build a base for the vessels in Vietnam.

“Cooperation between Moscow and Hanoi is quite multifaceted,” says Professor Vadim Kozyulin of the Academy of Military Sciences. “Furthermore, most of the Vietnamese government and military studied in the Soviet Union and speak Russian, which facilitates good relations.”

It is this factor, according to Kozyulin, which assures Moscow's dominant position in the Vietnamese market. And this is despite the improving relations between Hanoi and Washington, which in recent years has been seeking entry into the Vietnamese market. In particular, the U.S. has been probing the idea of leasing the Soviet naval base at Cam Ranh.

“Of course, it won't be like in Soviet times,” Kozyulin says. “Nevertheless, let us hope that Moscow and Hanoi can build a constructive strategic relationship.

An indication of that is Vietnam's promise to allow the Russian Navy to receive technical assistance at the Cam Ranh naval base.”

 

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Slovakia, Vietnam enhance military cooperation

Updated : 4/12/2013 5:05:11 PM

capital city Bratislava

(VOV) - Both countries have agreed to expand the scope of military and defense cooperation in the near future.

The agreement was reached at talks between the Slovak Republic’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs State Secretary Peter Burian and Vietnam’s Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh.

The two officials reviewed cooperation between the two militaries, governments, and peoples in past years and expressed their wish to advance it further.

Burian said his country is prepared to provide Vietnam with weapon repair and bombs, landmines and unexploded ordnance clearance equipment whenever the latter requires it.