

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1624891.html
George1 wrote:Long range Vietnamese UAV
Project Canada wrote:
Vietnam Seeks F-16 Jets, Joint Ventures With US in Growing Relationship
I dont get it, why seek these kind of purchases and partnership with the US when they could have done the same thing with Russia in the first place? also Vietnam wants to buy F-16s when they can get Su-35s or Mig-35s from Russia?? I dont think this is a wise move
flamming_python wrote:Project Canada wrote:
Vietnam Seeks F-16 Jets, Joint Ventures With US in Growing Relationship
I dont get it, why seek these kind of purchases and partnership with the US when they could have done the same thing with Russia in the first place? also Vietnam wants to buy F-16s when they can get Su-35s or Mig-35s from Russia?? I dont think this is a wise move
A little diversification, and to gain a powerful ally against China.
Remember that Russia and China have been building ever closer relations, and the Sino-Vietnamese conflict in 1979 (?) showed the Vietnamese that ultimately the USSR would not be prepared to sacrifice for it.
max steel wrote:Vietnamese Fighter Jet Missing in the South China Sea
A Sukhoi Su-30 MK2 went missing.
KiloGolf wrote:max steel wrote:Vietnamese Fighter Jet Missing in the South China Sea
A Sukhoi Su-30 MK2 went missing.
Let hope this wasn't part of Vietnam "asserting" themselves over there.
I don't think PRC would give Vietnamese planes the same treatment as the US Poseidons or B-52s.
max steel wrote:KiloGolf wrote:max steel wrote:Vietnamese Fighter Jet Missing in the South China Sea
A Sukhoi Su-30 MK2 went missing.
Let hope this wasn't part of Vietnam "asserting" themselves over there.
I don't think PRC would give Vietnamese planes the same treatment as the US Poseidons or B-52s.
Vietnamese coastguard plane, which was searching for a missing fighter jet and its pilot, disappeared off the radar on Thursday, local media and a military official said, the second such setback in three days.
The CASA C212 plane carrying nine people went missing off the northern town of Hai Phong about noon local time, local media reported, citing military and provincial sources.
The coastguard plane was joining thousands of people looking for a pilot who went missing with a Sukhoi SU-30 MK2 fighter jet on Tuesday along the central part of the country coastline.
higurashihougi wrote:Long story in short: a Vietnamese Su-30MK2 was downed by accident. One of the pilots was safely rescued.
However, during the process of rescue, a CASA aircraft was missed. Rescue team lost contact with that CASA at Bạch Long Vỹ (Hải Phòng), and the whereabout of that CASA is unknown.
People has just recovered some fragments from CASA aircraft.
news.zing.vn/may-bay-casa-cho-9-nguoi-mat-lien-lac-khi-dang-tim-su-30-post658404.html
http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/thoi-su/may-bay-casa-roi-khi-ha-do-cao-do-thoi-tiet-xau-3421288.html
medo wrote:RIP to the crews. What happened to Su-30MK2? Downed by accident could be understood as shot down by accident.