Flag Raising Ceremony of Kilo Submarine

This morning (January 15), at Submarine Brigade 189, Cam Ranh Military Base (Khanh Hoa), the Navy solemnly held an official handover ceremony and flag-raising ceremony on the Kilo Hanoi submarine.

According to Dan Viet newspaper, presiding over the ceremony, Admiral Nguyen Van Hien - Deputy Minister of National Defense, Commander of the Navy announced the decision to put Kilo submarine HQ182 named Hanoi into official service of the Vietnam People's Navy.

Photo: Dan Viet

Afterwards, all delegates, officers, experts and crew members attended the ceremony of raising the national flag and the flag of the Vietnam People's Navy on the Kilo Hanoi submarine. This is a newly applied ceremony and the Kilo Hanoi is one of the first ships to raise the flag of the Vietnam Navy.

Admiral Nguyen Van Hien instructed and assigned the officers and soldiers of the Kilo Hanoi ship to quickly train and master the ship to be ready to protect the Fatherland. The Navy Commander also instructed that in all cases, the national flag and the Vietnamese Navy flag must be kept safe and not lost or fall into the hands of the enemy.

The Hanoi submarine is the first of six Kilo-class, third-generation submarines that Vietnam ordered from Russia.

Photo: Dan Viet

After a trip lasting more than a month, Vietnam’s first Kilo submarine arrived at Cam Ranh port. On January 3, the mother ship Rolldock Sea was submerged so that Kilo 636 Hanoi could come out and anchor at the pier, officially operating in the sovereign waters of the Fatherland.

On the morning of January 8, for the first time, the Kilo Hanoi submarine left Cam Ranh military port and headed to the East Sea for testing before the official handover ceremony.

Previously, according to Thanh Nien newspaper, Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted a spokesman for the Russian Defense Industry Complex (MIC) on January 9 as saying: "At the end of January 2014, the signing ceremony of the handover of the second Kilo-class submarine will take place in St. Petersburg." After signing the handover, a transport ship will carry the second Kilo-class submarine from the Baltic Sea to Vietnam.

RIA Novosti reported that Russia is expected to deliver the third Kilo-class submarine to Vietnam this year.

According to danviet