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TEST-71 Most Powerful Torpedoes of the Vietnamese Kilo Submarine

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TEST-71 Most Powerful Torpedoes of the Vietnamese Kilo Submarine 07 Maret 2017 TEST-71 heavyweight torpedoes (photo : KienThuc) (Kien Thuc) - Long range, deep strike capability and great destructive power, TEST-71 torpedoes  are considered as powerful and most modern torpedoes of the Vietnamese Navy. With 6 Kilo 636 diesel electric submarines equipped with equipped with modern weapons including TEST-71 torpedoes has the ability to kill both surface and underwater target, give multiplier effect for Vietnam troops. For long time age torpedo is considered indispensable to any submarines. These are weapons designed to equip submarines to attack targets on water depth and seabed. Torpedoes always darting nightmare for both submarines and warships accidentally attacked them. Just a torpedo may tear the several thousand tonnes of battleship. The submarines hidden in deep waters, bringing them with the deadly torpedo always unease of any enemy warship water would dare confront them. TEST-7...

Last Kilo Submarine Arrives at Cam Ranh Port

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Last Kilo Submarine Arrives at Cam Ranh Port 21 Januari 2017 Rolldock Storm vessel carrying submarine HQ 187 Ba Ria - Vung Tau is in Cam Ranh Bay (photo : DatViet) Khanh Hoa (VNA) – The sixth and last Kilo-class submarine that Vietnam has purchased from Russia arrived at Cam Ranh military port in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on January 20. It took over 40 days for the Netherlands’ heavy lift vessel Rolldock Storm to carry the submarine, named HQ-187 Ba Ria – Vung Tau, to Cam Ranh port from Russia. In 2014 and 2015, Russia handed over four similar submarines to Vietnam, namely HQ-182 Hanoi, HQ-183 Ho Chi Minh City, HQ-184 Hai Phong, and HQ-185 Khanh Hoa. Later in February 2016, the fifth submarine named HQ-186 Da Nang harboured at Cam Ranh Port. At a flag-raising ceremony for HQ-184 Hai Phong and HQ-185 Khanh Hoa in 2015, Rear Admiral Pham Hoai Nam, Commander of the Vietnam People’s Navy, said the building and development of coastal guard forces and p...