Brigade 161 conducts fundamental, mastery-orientated, and advanced training

Brigade 161 conducts fundamental, mastery-orientated, and advanced training

Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 09:39 (GMT+7)
Brigade 161 is a core surface combat unit of Naval Region 3, tasked with maintaining combat readiness, providing combat support, and firmly safeguarding the nation’s sacred sovereignty over seas, islands, and continental shelf. To successfully fulfil its assigned missions, the Brigade has always focused on improving its training quality in a fundamental, mastery-orientated, and advanced manner via comprehensive and effective measures

The art of siege and ambush in the North Phu Yen Campaign of 1966

The art of siege and ambush in the North Phu Yen Campaign of 1966

Friday, April 24, 2026, 09:29 (GMT+7)
During the North Phu Yen Campaign, despite confronting the most elite and battle-hardened forces of the US military, our armed forces and people, employing the outstanding art of siege and ambush, dealt a devastating blow to the enemy and diminished both their strategic posture and strength across Military Region 5 battlefield, laying the groundwork for victory in the second dry-season strategic counter-offensive

Grasping Ho Chi Minh’s thought on self-reliance and self-strengthening, Factory Z176 enhances its production and business capacity

Grasping Ho Chi Minh’s thought on self-reliance and self-strengthening, Factory Z176 enhances its production and business capacity

Monday, March 09, 2026, 09:23 (GMT+7)
Factory Z176 has effectively applied Ho Chi Minh’s thought on self-reliance and self-strengthening and focused on promoting the application of new technologies in production and business, thereby improving its productivity, quality, and competitiveness, contributing to strengthening national defence potential and meeting the requirements of Fatherland protection in the new situation

Tank and Armoured Brigade 416 focuses on building an "exemplarily, typically" comprehensively strong unit

Tank and Armoured Brigade 416 focuses on building an “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong unit

Friday, February 27, 2026, 15:57 (GMT+7)
Over the years, Tank and Armoured Brigade 416 under Military Region 9 has thoroughly grasped and strictly implemented resolutions and directives from higher echelons through synchronous and appropriate leadership measures tailored to its specific characteristics. As a result, the Brigade has achieved comprehensive progress in all aspects of work, clearly affirming its role as a “powerful raiding force” of the Military Region

Upholding the virtues of "Uncle Ho’s Soldiers", Brigade 146 is determined to firmly safeguard the Fatherland’s sacred seas and islands

Upholding the virtues of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”, Brigade 146 is determined to firmly safeguard the Fatherland’s sacred seas and islands

Friday, January 23, 2026, 08:28 (GMT+7)
The task of managing and firmly safeguarding national sacred sovereignty over Truong Sa Archipelago is a great honour and pride of every officer and soldier of Brigade 146 under Naval Region 4. Fully aware of that special political responsibility, the Brigade’s Party Committee and Command are determined to excellently fulfil all assigned tasks, contributing to fostering and spreading the noble virtues of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers” - Naval Soldiers in the new period

Division 377 maintains combat readiness to protect the Fatherland’s airspace

Division 377 maintains combat readiness to protect the Fatherland’s airspace

Monday, December 08, 2025, 20:54 (GMT+7)
Adhering to its functions and tasks in the new situation, Air Defence Division 377, under the Air Defence - Air Force Service, has adopted synchronised solutions to improve its combat readiness capacity as the basis for firmly protecting the Fatherland’s airspace over South Central Coast, Central Highlands, and Truong Sa special zone

Hanoi’s armed forces focus on building strong defensive zones

Hanoi’s armed forces focus on building strong defensive zones

Sunday, November 16, 2025, 10:44 (GMT+7)
Awareness and a sense of responsibility among cadres, party members, the armed forces, and locals towards defence and security tasks have been raised. Socio-economic development has been closely, effectively combined with defence - security consolidation and foreign affairs. All-people national defence and the posture of all-people national defence have been closely integrated with the people’s security posture

Coast Guard Squadron 21 improves its training and combat readiness quality

Coast Guard Squadron 21 improves its training and combat readiness quality

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 14:54 (GMT+7)
Over the years, Squadron 21, under Coast Guard Region 2’s Command, has always regarded training and combat readiness as a central, consistent political task that has directly contributed to building “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong affiliates, raising its synergy and combat strength, and meeting its task requirements.

An overview of Japan’s defence equipment modernisation trends

An overview of Japan’s defence equipment modernisation trends

Monday, October 27, 2025, 16:17 (GMT+7)
Amid growing complexities in the global and regional security environment, Japan has been accelerating the modernisation of Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) through a series of crucial steps. With the adoption of new national security and defence strategies, along with a significant increase in defence investment, Japan’s defence equipment modernisation is reshaping the regional military balance, which has drawn considerable attention from military analysts

Experiences in raising training and combat readiness quality at Mechanised Infantry Division 308

Experiences in raising training and combat readiness quality at Mechanised Infantry Division 308

Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 18:24 (GMT+7)
The Division’s Party Committee and Command have focused their leadership and direction on taking various synchronised, drastic measures to improve the performance of this routine, central political mission as the basis for raising the Division’s synergy and combat strength. There have been many reforms in training and combat readiness work; targets of training work have all been excellently fulfilled; the Division has gained the title of “Good Training Unit” for many consecutive years

The role of the Vietnam People’s Army in realising economic development goals according to the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress
In the new era of development, in order to realise the goals for national development by 2030, with a vision to 2045, it is essential to continue to closely link socio-economic development with defence and security consolidation. In the process, strongly promoting the VPA’s role is of special importance. To that end, emphasis should be placed on the following main directions