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

Vietnam Coast Guard improves the efficiency of law enforcement at sea

Vietnam Coast Guard improves the efficiency of law enforcement at sea

Saturday, April 18, 2026, 10:36 (GMT+7)
Improving the law enforcement at sea is an urgent requirement for the Vietnam Coast Guard in the new era. Clearly understanding this issue, Vietnam Coast Guard has been drastically and synchronously making many measures to imlement this work effectively in order to confirm the core role in protecting the sovereignty and maintaining the security and safety at sea.

Modernising Artillery and Missile Forces: a vital step in the cause of Fatherland protection in the new era

Modernising Artillery and Missile Forces: a vital step in the cause of Fatherland protection in the new era

Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 16:13 (GMT+7)
Today ground-based artillery and missiles remain a critical element of combat forces, providing the primary firepower that often decides the outcome of military operations. Consequently, to meet the demands of defending the Fatherland in a changing world, the development of artillery and missile forces that are rationally organised, heavily armed, precise, and highly mobile is not merely important, it is an urgent priority demanding comprehensive study

Enhancing the leadership capacity and combativeness of Naval Region 2’s Party Organisation

Enhancing the leadership capacity and combativeness of Naval Region 2’s Party Organisation

Thursday, February 12, 2026, 14:56 (GMT+7)
These realities necessitate the Region’s Party Committee and Command adopting sound guidelines and solutions, and exercising their comprehensive leadership and direction over all aspects of work, with Party building identified as a central focus. In practice, results from self-criticism and criticism under the Resolution of the 4th Plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee on the building and rectification of the Party and political system have shown that, alongside notable achievements, the work of Party organisation building still reveals certain shortcomings

189th Brigade focuses on enhancing combat power

189th Brigade focuses on enhancing combat power

Monday, November 17, 2025, 16:06 (GMT+7)
Fully aware of the mission requirements and the great responsibility entrusted to them, the Party Committee and Command of the Brigade have been focusing on leading and directing the vigorous and comprehensive implementation of multiple measures to improve its overall quality and combat power, identifying this as a key and continuous objective, both for the immediate term and for the long run.

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.

Naval Engineering Institute enhances its capacity for research, design, and production of modern weapons and equipment

Naval Engineering Institute enhances its capacity for research, design, and production of modern weapons and equipment

Saturday, November 01, 2025, 08:28 (GMT+7)
Naval Engineering Institute has been entrusted with numerous important tasks. It has participated in major, key projects assigned by the Ministry of National Defence and the Navy, focusing on research and development of new-generation naval weapons and technical equipment with high levels of integration, scientific know-how, and advanced technical and tactical capabilities

Factory Z173 promotes tradition, enhances internal strength, and goes global

Factory Z173 promotes tradition, enhances internal strength, and goes global

Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 19:15 (GMT+7)
With solid goals, enterprise, and the sensitivity in choosing product strategies, the Factory has always been on the right track, stood firm despite difficulties and made numerous developments, making significant contributions to the cause of national construction and defence.

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

Naval Region 2’s Training Centre steps up regularity building, discipline management, and safety assurance

Naval Region 2’s Training Centre steps up regularity building, discipline management, and safety assurance

Friday, October 24, 2025, 08:34 (GMT+7)
In response to its practical conditions and task requirements, a part from the performance of all missions, the Centre’s Party Committee and Command have attached great importance to achieving strong, clear, steady improvements in regularity building, discipline management, and safety assurance, thereby laying a solid foundation for building an “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong unit capable of excellently fulfilling all assigned tasks

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