Vietnam's Tran Hung Dao ship arrives in China for multilateral exercise
After completing its visit to Japan and South Korea, ship 015 - Tran Hung Dao of the Vietnam Navy will visit China's Zhanjiang base.
China's Sina website recently posted a series of photos about the activities of the missile frigate 015 - Tran Hung Dao of the Vietnam Navy in Japan and South Korea.
The Chinese newspaper reported that after conducting military diplomacy activities in two Northeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese warship will visit China before returning home.
It is known that frigate 015 - Tran Hung Dao of the Vietnam Navy will visit Tram Giang base and participate in a joint exercise between ASEAN and Chinese navies from October 21 to 28.
This is a special event to build trust between the navies of Southeast Asian countries and China towards peace and friendship at sea.
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| Ship 015 - Tran Hung Dao at Yokosuka Naval Port, Japan |
Sina further reported that in recent times, the Vietnamese Navy has been modernizing at a rapid pace by equipping many modern warships of Russian origin.
Besides the four Gepard 3.9 missile frigates built by Russia, domestic shipyards also built many new Molniya 1241.8 small fast attack missile boats under technology transfer licenses.
These warships of the Vietnam Navy have only small and medium displacement but have extremely powerful firepower, equivalent to many other 3,000-ton ships.
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| Ship 015 - Tran Hung Dao in Jeju, South Korea when participating in the international naval parade |
In addition to building new ships, recently the Vietnam Navy has rapidly increased the strength of its surface fleet by receiving more used warships from abroad.
After the warship parade in Jeju, Vietnam received the second Pohang-class anti-submarine frigate donated by South Korea, the ship has a new number of 20.The addition of more Pohang-class warships from South Korea will be a necessary replacement for Vietnam as the Petya-class is showing signs of aging and needs to be retired.
Although returning home with the Gepard 3.9, according to plan, ship 20 will not visit the Tram Giang base and will head straight to Da Nang port.
Finally, Sina said that in the near future, Vietnam may also order Russia to build another pair of Gepard 3.9 warships with stronger weapon configurations, possibly carrying Kalibr-NK supersonic missiles.
