Posted on 08/13/2019 11:32:53 PM PDT by NorseViking
NDO/VNA – The tank team of the Vietnam People’s Army beat Tajikistan, Myanmar and Uganda, ranking first in the semi-final round of Group 2 of the “Tank biathlon” event on August 11 at the ongoing Army Games 2019 in Russia.
The Vietnamese team finished in 2 hours 39 minutes 34 seconds. With the excellent performance, Vietnam are likely to secure a berth in the final round, but still waiting the results of the remaining teams of Group 2 – Uzbekistan, Laos, Cuba and Kuwait – which will compete on August 13.
The team had an impressive performance at the round and received enthusiastic cheers from the audiences.
This is the second year Vietnam has sent a delegation to the event. Vietnam’s 127 officers and soldiers are participating in the categories of tank biathlon, safe route, safe environment, sniper frontier, military medical relay race, field kitchen, and emergency area.
During the Army Games 2019, more than 5,000 military athletes from 39 countries will compete in over 30 categories held in host Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Iran, India, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
Vietnam’s attendance at the Army Games 2019 is considered a defence diplomatic activities of Vietnam to mark the Vietnam-Russia and Russia-Vietnam Year (2019-2020).
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“Tank biathlon” won by Vietnam.
Many don’t realize that when North Vietnam finally crushed South Vietnam it was with an armor-tipped attack that a Guderian, Rommel, Zhukov or Patton would have recognized.
Exactly. And if the US had kept it’s word to it’s South Vietnamese ally, kept them logistically supplied, and provided the same level of air support that blunted the North Viet’s 1972 Easter Offensive, then the later offensive would probably have resulted in failure also.
South Vietnamese ground units, particularly their M-48a3 tank units, did some very determined and resolute fighting, particularly on the DMZ and the II and III Corp tactical zones.
The word “If” is the biggest little word in the world. If we had Operation Linebacker and Linebacker II in 1965 there would’ve been a completely different outcome.
Pretty impressive results for a crew that’s chained into their PT-76. LOL!
I always thought it was funny that for the final push into Saigon in 1975 some in the Vietnamese hierarchy wanted the drive to be spearheaded by reconstituted Viet Cong* units. The North Vietnamese Army basically told them screw that. We won you lost.
*After devastating loses at Khe Sahn and the Tet Offensive, the VC ceased to be an effective fighting force and it’s few remaining troops we absorbed into the NVA.
We couldn’t have had Linebacker I and II because that POS LBJ was C-in-C in 1965. For all of his many faults, Nixon was a much better one than Johnson.
And a complete committal of their armed forces, such that Moscow thought Hanoi had lost its marbles by leaving itself open to a counter-invasion.
The Viet Cong were toast after the Tet Offensive. Walter Cronkite turned it into a huge win for the North.
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