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On 7 May 1955 the Vietnam People's Navy was created with the establishment of the General Directorate of Coastal Defence, it formed the basis for the Navy Operational Command (based on the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence decree No. 284/ND signed by General Võ Nguyên Giáp to established Naval Research Board, under the General Staff, on 8 March ...
40 km of range, used for coastal defense. Redut-M: P-5 Pyatyorka: 4K44 Redut Soviet Union: 80 km of range, used for coastal defense. VLV-01: VSM-01 Vietnam: 80 - 130 km range, used for coastal defense. A part of theVCS-01 mobile coastal defense system. Based on KAMAZ-6560 8×8 truck chassis. Weighs around 40 tons and is ready to fire in 10 minutes.
VSM-01 "Red River" missile. The VCS-01, marketed as the Trường Sơn (Annamite Range) and also known as VCM-B, is a Vietnamese mobile, anti-ship missile-based coastal defense system developed to succeed the Soviet-designed, Cold War-era 4K51 Rubezh.
Coastal defence (Commonwealth) or Coastal defense (US) may refer to: Coastal management , the protection of the coast from the action of wind, wave and tide Coastal defence and fortification , the protection of the coast against military or naval attack
Coastal defence weapons throughout history were heavy naval guns or weapons based on them, often supplemented by lighter weapons. In the late 19th century separate batteries of coastal artillery replaced forts in some countries; in some areas these became widely separated geographically through the mid-20th century as weapon ranges increased.
According to the Vietnam Coast Guard Law (Vietnamese: Luật Cảnh sát biển) which "prescribes the status, functions, roles, powers, organization and operation of the Vietnam Coast Guard" and declaring the "responsibilities of involved entities and persons", the Vietnam Coast Guard shall be "...under the absolute and all-aspect leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the supreme ...
Little information has been officially and publicly revealed by Viettel or any parts of the Vietnam Ministry of National Defence; however, according to many pictures and pieces of information shared in the media, VCM-01 is likely developed and derived from the Russian Kh-35UE anti-ship missile, which is currently the backbone anti-ship missiles ...
Junk Force at anchor, 1962. The Junk Force (Vietnamese: Lực Lượng Hải Thuyền) officially the Coastal Force was a naval security unit of the Republic of Vietnam, composed of civilians trained by the Navy and working in conjunction with the Republic of Vietnam National Police.