Posted on 09/19/2021 12:10:32 PM PDT by george76
Let VietNam buy their own darned subs.
Even Ho Chi Minh said, “I’d rather smell French s___ than Chinese s___!”
Stupid article. How many subs? Just to push buttons.
All except that you can’t snap your fingers and create a competent submarine force just by handing a country with zero naval tradition 3 or 4 subs. It takes constant training even if you have that. Same goes for naval aviation.
Sure,give them subs and they can give us Cam Ranh Bay and maybe we can get Subic Bay back in the Philippines since war in the Pacific is inevitible
Interesting article.
>>The Shortfin Barracudas would be very quiet and a major threat to the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
Are these pure diesel-electric or is there an AIP component? I believe it was a Swedish AIP/DE that was used in war games vs. US nuclear-powered attack submarines, and it acquitted itself very well.
China would scream bloody murder if this were to happen.
To Hell with that idea.
From a U.S. perspective, Macron is certainly preferable to the isolationist-minded and pro-China Marine Le Pen...
She's can't be both isolationist-minded and pro-China, so that's rubbish. She's not a pro-EU stooge like Macron and Sarkozy before him. Also, she's probably going to be kept out of office by the usual runoff skullduggery that's built right into the French system of rigged elections.
Why not give them to the Taliban?
France should just give the subs to the VC as reparations for colonialism or some such.
Give them to the Republic of China.
We need Việt Nam to take on some of the defense of the Eastern Sea. they are our allies there. That has faded a tad with the Democrats in power here as Democrat administrations despise any third world or in this case emerging-from-3rd-world country that craves to be friends with America.
As near as I can tell, Diesel Electric with lead-acid batteries. So basically World War II technology.
Nope.
Lost too many buds to Charlie.
Not with my money....
Soviets Vulnerable in Cam Ranh Bay, Australian Says
CANBERRA, Australia — The Soviet base at Cam Ranh Bay in southern Vietnam would not last more than a day if war broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union, Australian Defense Minister Kim Beazley said Friday.
Beazley made the statement in Parliament after several opposition and government members expressed concern over the growing Soviet presence in the Pacific and in the bay.
“The Soviet Union does not deploy front-line craft in Cam Ranh Bay. The true significance of the Soviet Union’s position there lies in the political influence that it gives it,” he said.
It's always easy to spend other people's money.
Especially if it's the deep pocket, USA citizen
taxpayer's money.
Screw that.
I think we’re already propping up enough countries
Just slip it into that three trillion package deal.(/S)
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