Vietnam’s third Russian produced Submarine HQ-184 to arrive

Three of the six submarines from Russian order by Vietnam will arrive next month, this was told by the Russian officials in an Interfax.

The Russian Hai Phong HQ-184 recently completed its testing at sea in the Kaliningrad and returned to St. Petersburg—based Shipyards on March 2. Interfax manufacturer quoted that Alexander Buzakov, Shipyards’ general director, saying that submarine will soon arrive in Vietnam next month without any further details how. He also added that HQ—186 Da Nang, fifth submarine in contract, will be launched at shipyard by end of this year.



March of this year, HQ—183 Ho Chi second submarine, was delivered to Vietnam’s by Dutch—registered cargo ship Rolldock Star. The stated Dutch delivered HQ 182 Hanoi, first of six subs, to the Cam Ranh Bay last December 31 of 2013. Six diesel—electric submarines, are considered improvements over older Kilo—class, bought through USD2—billion deal signed during of the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan to Russia in late 2009. The said contract requires Russia to deliver everything before 2017.

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