Another Kilo-class submarine heading for Vietnam

Vietnam Net ^ | 4 February 2014

[Army Air Corps]

The submarine, named HQ-183 Ho Chi Minh City, was built at Admiralty Verfi Shipyard in St. Petersburg.

Due to harsh weather conditions in St. Petersburg, the naval diesel-electric submarine was loaded on to the Dutch heavy lift ship at Kaliningrad’s Yantar shipyard instead of Admiralty Verfi.

The loading was supported by two tug boats and a canoe.

The Dutch ship is now travelling to the Baltic Sea and then to Vietnam. It is scheduled to dock at Cam Ranh Port in one and a half months.

Vietnam and Russia signed a document verifying the result of the vessel’s technical tests at the Admiralty Verfi Shipyard on January 16.

This is the second of the six Kilo-class submarines Vietnam is purchasing from Russia under a contract signed in 2009.

The first submarine, dubbed HQ-182 Hanoi, was delivered to Vietnam in November 2013. It was transported to Cam Ranh Port on December 31, 2013 and successfully made its first maiden voyage on January 8, 2014.

The third vessel, named HQ-184 Haiphong, was launched in Russia on August 28, 2013, and will be delivered to Vietnam this year.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Army Air Corps]

FYI Ping.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“The loading was supported by two tug boats and a canoe. “

A canoe?

[Army Air Corps]

Must have been a big canoe!

[Elsiejay]

There is only one Vietnam?

[blueunicorn6]

Their people get paid $100 a month. Their boys sell themselves to homosexual tourists. Yet, they have the money to buy six submarines. Yep, it’s a communist country.

[Army Air Corps]

Since 1975. That said, the cultures in Ha Noi and Sai Gon are quite different in terns of attitudes and mindset.

[The_Reader_David]

The weird thing is, in the present state of things in East Asia, this is actually a good thing from the point of view of U.S. interests, since everyone with competing territorial claims with the PRC is a potential ally in the event of a war, the Vietnamese fascists (née communists) included.

[Army Air Corps]

I concur.

[ThanhPhero]

Việt Nam has been trying to be a US ally for 15 years. Clinton and Bush jollied them along and pressed for and obtained improvements in the political climate there. Mr.Obama takes offense at a country wanting to be friends with America. He has quit being pleasant to VN and has quit pressing for relaxation of the tyranny. Việt Nam's gangster government has fallen more and more into its more accustomed ways again. I am glad to see them get the subs, though. Whether we spurn VN or embrace VN, VN fears and will resist China.

[DoughtyOne]

Hmmmm, there’s a least a small hitch in Russia’s relationship with China.