Kilo 636 for Vietnam Undergoes Sea Trials

In early December of outfitting the wall "Admiralty Shipyards" to the factory sea trials in the Baltic Sea came submarine of project export series 06361. On the test boat will be based in Port Light near Kaliningrad. Correspondent Central Navy Portal source said the company.

The first phase of the factory running tests (ZHI) is planned for the end of December, this period will be deep dive boat.

The total period of the entire test program - nearly five months.

To comply with contractual obligations to release the order for the ship ZHI organized two, and sometimes three shifts. Last month shipbuilders worked virtually around the clock.

Since this order - the head, then it establishes a number of new and upgraded systems and complexes. Thus, the project for the first time have the latest system of life of personnel ship (removal of pressure in the compartments and nitrogen fire-fighting). This system has already passed successfully tested on non-nuclear submarine "Saint Petersburg". Installation, testing and commissioning of the system on the project took a long time 06361 costs and special training commissioning team.

Skilled shipyard had to learn the new computerized system. Now they will have to share the skills learned from the crew of the Russian military, and then - to learn a foreign team. Due to the significant complexity of equipment for training the crew to customer country devoted almost five months, although the previous similar studies did not exceed two weeks.

The number of teams in the acceptance ZHI - 52. Increased acceptance team composition is explained not only by the necessity test of new and upgraded systems, but also the training of young specialists.

Immediately after the holidays to start learning a foreign crew. For this to be six outputs boat at sea for 10-12 days each.

In early May, the parent order - serial number 01339 - to get back to the dock yard. After removal of comments and audit SSK again come to sea in priemoperedatochnye test.

Transfer of the first order under the contract series is scheduled for August 2013.

Bookmark boats took place in 2010, they let down the order for the water August 28, 2012.

According to unconfirmed reports, the head boat the customer given the name "Hanoi".

Submarines of the Admiralty building will be the main submarine Navy customer country - Vietnam. Under the contract, worth about $ 2 billion, signed between Vietnam and Russia in December 2009, JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" to build a series of six diesel-electric submarines of Project 06361 deadlines - 2013-2016. This is the most ambitious program of cooperation between Russia and Vietnam in the segment of naval technology.

Vietnam: Launch of the website of the Ministry of Defence

The portal of the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence (Vietnamese Ministry of Defense Portal - VMDP) was launched on Thursday in Hanoi at: www.mod.gov.vn .

Present at the launching ceremony of the Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and General Do Ba Ty, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army and Deputy Minister of Defense.

This website will provide official information from the Ministry in Vietnamese and English public services involved.

It will allow people to other departments and their branches to learn about the department's activities as well as international friends to learn about Vietnam, his country and his defense, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

The Deputy Prime Minister also asked the ministry to add a section "The defense and young people" to help them better understand the mission of building and national defense of the People's Army of Vietnam and attract high quality human resources. AVI-

Vietnam veterans group sues military over PTSD

The military has failed to correct the wrongful discharges of thousands of Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, an advocacy group says in a federal lawsuit.
Vietnam Veterans of America on Monday joined a proposed class action lawsuit in Hartford against the Army, Navy and Air Force. The lawsuit, first filed last year by a veteran, says the Vietnam veterans suffered PTSD before the condition was recognized and were discharged under other-than-honorable conditions that made them ineligible for disability compensation and other benefits.
The lawsuit says the military has refused to review or upgrade the discharge statuses of thousands of Vietnam War-era veterans with service-related PTSD.
“People did not understand PTSD during the Vietnam era,” said John Rowan, national president of Vietnam Veterans of America. “Now that we do, these service members must not be denied the recognition and benefits they long ago earned.”
The U.S. attorney’s office, which is representing the military in the lawsuit, said it’s reviewing the matter and will respond in court.
The initial lawsuit was filed by John Shepherd, a Vietnam veteran from New Haven, who says he was diagnosed with PTSD in 2004 but has been repeatedly denied a discharge upgrade.
Shepherd and the VVA, which has about 65,000 members, are represented by Yale Law School students who work at a veterans legal services clinic. The students say since 2003 the Army has approved fewer than 2 percent of applications by Vietnam veterans claiming PTSD to upgrade discharges, compared to 46 percent for all discharge upgrade applications in recent years.
Some of the veterans denied had at least one medal or had a PTSD diagnosis from the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the students, who analyzed the Army data.
“The military has failed to apply consistent and medically appropriate standards to assess the impact of service-related PTSD on the conduct that led to discharge, resulting in the defendants’ discriminatory and near-categorical denial of discharge upgrade applications by Vietnam veterans who served in theater and developed PTSD,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit estimates about 85,000 of the more than 250,000 Vietnam veterans discharged under other than honorable conditions have PTSD. The discharges were based on poor conduct such as unauthorized absence without leave, shirking, using drugs or lashing out at comrades or superior officers, conduct the lawsuit says was a symptom of underlying undiagnosed PTSD.
PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can develop in a person who experiences or witnesses a traumatic event. Symptoms include flashbacks or nightmares of the traumatic event.
The veterans have experienced homelessness, prolonged unemployment and troubled relationships, the lawsuit says.
“Isolated and impoverished, they have struggled to cope not only with their war wounds but also with the shame of a bad discharge,” it says.
The Army awarded Shepherd with a Bronze Star after his unit came under intense fire and he entered an enemy bunker and threw a grenade that killed several enemy soldiers, according to the lawsuit.
Shepherd developed symptoms of PTSD after blowing up the enemy bunker and later witnessing the gruesome deaths of several comrades, according to his lawsuit. Shepherd began to act strangely and was found wandering around a base in a confused state. He eventually reached a breaking point and refused to go back out into the field, the lawsuit says.
He was charged with failure to obey an order and was discharged.
Shepherd’s application for a discharge upgrade was denied again in June. The Army said he failed to present convincing evidence that his misconduct 43 years ago was the result of PTSD or that his discharge was improper, but he’s appealing the decision.

Vietnam Soldiers Exercise with Missiles on the Shoulder

The Gunners export 12.7 mm from the University's team, 16, 141 Regiment, 312th Division (legion 1) standard firing practices (all photos : BaoDatViet)

Recently, Non Army forces and the Northern People's Non participate in live firing exercises in shooting TB1.

Tactical maneuvers, firing of Non Army forces and the Northern People's Non 2012 took place in the country towards the 40th anniversary of victory "Hanoi - Dien Bien Phu in the air" (12/1972-12/2012).

The export team 12.7 mm of the regular army target practice to destroy low-flying aircraft in daytime conditions.

This is an integrated testing for the division and each artillery gunners of the unit. Although the Gunners made all shot in daytime and night conditions are difficult, but each hail of bullets fly out of the barrel of the cannon is a target destroyed.

Join maneuvers, firing the gate teams militia of the provinces and cities in the north.

Coordination between the statistics, the export team; cleverly making use, creativity between theory and practice, skillfully manipulating shot in the last shot of the gunner from the military regions, army corps, troops who ... has helped 100% export team to destroy the target. It, confirmed bravery, qualifications and ability to handle situations in combat and mastery of technical equipment and weapons of the soldiers not.

The sniper team export 12.7 mm of Thac Ba Hydropower Joint Stock Company (Yen Bai) target practice killing day

The tireless efforts of the officers and soldiers of the artillery unit key non-military and militia forces today as a manifestation of belief, determination followed the heroic tradition of air force hero in the "Dien Bien Phu on" 12/1972.

Here are a few pictures at the rehearsal:

Observers detect airborne targets.

Export team A-72 missiles (Vietnam called SA-7) in the 241 Brigade (1st Corps) aircraft target practice shot fired.

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The export team low-range missiles, the A-72 in Military Region 1 target coordinate destroy low-flying aircraft.

Export team-aircraft guns 12.7 mm drill size radiation at night.

The joy of the soldiers after the shoot down "enemy aircraft" flying targets M96.

Vietnam-Singapore: dialogue on defense policy

The fifth dialogue on defense policy between Vietnam and Singapore took place from November 19 to 21 in Singapore.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Defense Nguyen Chi Vinh met with the Permanent Secretary of Singapore Ministry of Defence, Chang Chie Foo.

Both parties have sought to strengthen bilateral relations in defense to match the strategic partnership between the two countries, which will be signed in 2013.

On the regional situation, both parties agreed that it remains traditional security challenges such as non-traditional. They stressed that all parties should strive to promote friendship and cooperation to contribute to peace and stability in the world.

They stressed the importance of solidarity and unity among the ASEAN countries to maintain peace and stability in the region, to limit outside influences that are capable of causing divisions intestine within ASEAN, and to strengthen the central role of ASEAN in multinational forums.

Regarding the East Sea, Vietnam and Singapore have found that the ASEAN members and other stakeholders must redouble their efforts to build trust, advancing peaceful measures to resolve disputes gradually based on transparency and respect international law including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (UNCLOS 1982) and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties Orientatale Sea (DOC), and to develop in the short time a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).

Both parties agreed to strengthen their relations on various levels including the training of personnel, military medicine, the exchange of experiences of participation in international peacekeeping to peace.

The two countries also discussed cooperation in multilateral fora in the region, including the Conference of Defence Ministers of ASEAN (ADMM) and the enlarged conference of this event (ADMM +).

They unanimously stated that these forums whose potentials are important in terms of maintaining the principles of peace, stability, mutual respect, the central role of ASEAN, as well as respect for international law in relationships within this block as in those with non-member countries of ASEAN to solve problems when they arise. AVI-

Vietnam to Make Unmanned Aircraft Collaboration with Sweden

VietNamNet Bridge - Sweden will help the Vietnam Aerospace Association (VASA) in technology transfer and development of medium-range unmanned aircraft.

At the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement between Vietnam and Sweden on making unmanned aircraft (UAV) held by VASA on November 20, Professor Nguyen Duc Cuong, VASA President, stressed the important role of the UAV in the field of defense and security, search and rescue, protection and management of forests.

"Vietnam and Sweden will cooperate to manufacture medium-range unmanned aircraft called Magic Eye 1,” he said.

Magic Eye 1 weighs 40 kg, with operating time up to 6 hours, maximum flying speed of 200 km per hour, and the radio communication radius of 100 to 200 km.

Under the plan, the collaborative project will be divided into three phases. In the first phase, Sweden will give fund to Vietnam to manufacture two Magic Eye 1. They will provide Vietnam with equipment, technology transfer, design and send experts to Vietnam.

In the second stage, the two sides will cooperate to develop avionics. In the final stage, they will manufacture UAVs for exports.

According to experts, the need for UAV in Vietnam is very large. This produce can perform various tasks such as mapping, surveying, planning, border patrol, search and rescue.

Compared to remote sensing satellites, UAVs have several advantages such as having cheaper price, being able to take high-resolution photos, and the UAV technology is updated timely and easy.