Choosing Israel ATMOS artillery, will Vietnam have the production technology?

Besides tanks and armored vehicles, artillery is an indispensable component if we want to bring the Vietnamese Army to modernity.

Reality has shown that there have been first steps in this process, such as our showing interest and possibly soon ordering up to 200 T-90MS main battle tanks from Russia or 108 CAESAR 155 mm wheeled self-propelled guns from France.

The CAESAR 155 mm self-propelled gun of the French Army is manufactured by the Nexter Group.

However, since the initial information appeared until now, it seems that the CAESAR self-propelled artillery deal between Vietnam and France is still in the potential form and has not been implemented.

The reason, according to the assessment, could be because we want to move up to a heavy version using an 8x8 armored vehicle chassis, or there is another possibility that Vietnam is considering the next candidate.

Soltam ATMOS 2000 self-propelled artillery of the Royal Thai Army

If it really leans towards the second direction, which is to consider a new candidate, Vietnam can refer to Thailand's experience in choosing self-propelled artillery.

This Southeast Asian country has long purchased a small number of CAESAR self-propelled artillery for the king's armored guard unit, and they highly appreciate its features, but surprisingly, in the future, the main wheeled self-propelled artillery of this country's army will be the ATMOS 2000 manufactured by the Israeli Soltam Systems Group.

Why the above change? It should be noted that the features of ATMOS 2000 are not inferior to CAESAR because the Thai Army has full conditions to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of artillery above.

The core reason why Thailand abandoned French artillery to choose Israeli artillery is probably because Israel is willing to provide technological assistance for Thailand to produce domestically, a condition that is impossible for France.

Returning to the case of Vietnam, the relationship between Vietnam and Israel is currently very good, if we want to buy a large number of ATMOS 2000 artillery, then almost certainly the other side is very willing to draft a contract with similar technology transfer terms with Thailand.

According to Baodatviet