Viet Nam Human Rights
Power of Vietnam navy
16/8/14
The fight against destroyer USS Maddox
and aircraft of the United States
on August 2 and 5, 1964, was the first victory of the Vietnam People’s Navy and
the army and people in the north during the America’s
war in Vietnam.
Under the command of the Party Central
Military Commission and the Defence Ministry, the Navy High Command asked
detachment 3 of its battalion 135 to secretly set up an ambush on Hon Ne
island, the central province
of Thanh Hoa, waiting for
the USS Maddox.
On August 2, 1964, when the USS Maddox
was about 9 nautical miles from Hon Me, detachment 3 soldiers and their vessels
started an offensive, braving bursts of bombs and firings to chase the
destroyer out of the waters, shoot down a plane and damage others.
Three days later, the US air force made a surprise attack on the Vietnamese naval bases, and major economic and defence establishments lying along the coastal areas from Hon Gai, the northern province of Quang Ninh to the Gianh river, the central province of Quang Binh. The naval force, in liaison with air forces, police, militiamen and civilians, shot down eight aircraft and arrested the first US pilot Everett Alvarez.
Three days later, the US air force made a surprise attack on the Vietnamese naval bases, and major economic and defence establishments lying along the coastal areas from Hon Gai, the northern province of Quang Ninh to the Gianh river, the central province of Quang Binh. The naval force, in liaison with air forces, police, militiamen and civilians, shot down eight aircraft and arrested the first US pilot Everett Alvarez.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was just an excuse that
the US
used to extend the war and destroy
the North of Vietnam. The US policy pursued to escalate
the war, so even "The Gulf of Tonkin incident"
in May 8-1964 happened or not, sooner or later it would
happen then.
According to calculations of the military
analysts, it must have 12 torpedo ships to hit a
destroyer, but at that time we only had 3 small
ships, which were not really modern,
but active, creative and dare to fight off enemy’s huge destroyer. When there was a command,
the ships were on its way on the sea, facing the enemy, even when
they had been raiding by enemy
aircrafts, many soldiers wounded and sacrificed, but the officers and soldiers on
board remained steadfast determination, fought off enemy ships and continued
to participate in shooting enemy
aircrafts.
The battle in August 2nd and
5th, 1964 was a direct confrontation between
the Vietnam Navy with little experience in actual combat,
limitation in vehicles, weapons and techniques,
and the other side of American Imperialism with the naval and air forces, much more surpassing
us about modern
weapons, equipment, techniques and
combat experience, and especially with a professional invasion
army. However, the Vietnam
People's Navy had won resounding victories, made
the glorious tradition of "first
victory battle" of Navy Force;
This has been a shining
landmark in the history of combat, construction, maturation
of heroic Navy Force.
The current situation at sea
now is more complicated
and stressful. Foreign factors, especially China have had many provocative actions
to escalate territorial disputes in the
field to perform conspiracy
of monopolizing the East Sea,
threatening our country's territorial sovereignty. Against this backdrop,
the Vietnam People's Navy has to gradually build a
solid frame, which is laid on sea
- islands -
shore, strong enough to be the core force in
the struggle to protect maritime sovereignty and to fight off offensive strikes on the sea.
To do this, besides enhancing the modern equipment
we need to pay much attention to educate and promote the
historical significance and lessons,
which learned from the first victory.
Thereby we can build up and maintain
wills in our army, which makes soldier dare
to fight and know how to win
and determine to protect firmly the country’s sovereignty.
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All comments [ 10 ]
Be proud of Vietnam Navy! We're strong enough to defend our sovereignty!
We will defeat all the enemies who dare to invade our country. We have tradition of protecting the country against the ambition of big country like China, the US, France... They had all received the result of loser!
Vietnam has a long coast, so we have to build up our navy power to defend our country from the strike from the sea, to protect our fishermen when they're fishing on the sea,...
The Vietnam People's Navy is the core service in protecting Vietnam's maritime sovereignty.
The Navy's Responsibility is to strictly manage and control the waters and islands in the East Sea under Vietnam's sovereignty, to maintain security, to counter any Acts of violating Sovereignty, sovereign rights, jurisdiction and national interests of Vietnam at sea, to secure normal activities of Vietnam in its waters and islands in Conformity with Vietnamese and international laws, to ensure maritime safety and participate in search-and-rescue operations in accordance with Vietnam's laws and the international conventions Adopted by Vietnam, to be ready for joint and combined operations to defeat Aggression from any and at sea.
I have a dream to be a marine, to be on board of a warship and fire missiles to enemy's ships. Oh, it's wonderful!
As Minister of Defense Phung Quang Thanh stated on 05 August 2011: "The direction of building up the armed forces is one to follow the revolutionary spirit, regularization and effectiveness and gradual modernization. Within this context, the Navy, the Air Force, the Signal Corps and Electronic Warfare will proceed directly into modernization to protect the country".
The power of the Nay is rising sharply, it's equipped with a lot of modern weapons like submarine, frigate, anti-air missiles...
The Vietnam People's Navy is building Coastal defense missile force as the core force in maritime security strategy, equipped with Russian and Indian missile systems
The Vietnamese People's Navy played an important part in protecting national waters, islands, the continental shelf, and special economic zones and in ensuring the interests of maritime economy.
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