India to Sell Warships to Vietnam

[Vikrant]

Win - win situation!

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India is all set to sell warships to Vietnam - a country locked in territorial with China.

Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers or GRSE - a Kolkata-based Defence Public Sector unit - will supply warships to Vietnam. This will be the second export of warships for India. It is already selling a patrol ship - Coast Guard Ship Barracuda - to Mauritius at a cost of Rs. 350 crores. (Meet the Barracuda - the First Warship India Will Export)

Besides, it is also in the race to export two light Frigates - about 3500 tons each at a total cost of Rs. 2000 crore - to The Philippines.

The forays of the Indian Ship builder in the Indian Ocean and the disputed South China Sea are not mere commercial. The sale has strategic implications as well as the exports will spread Indian footprints across the region. Vietnam, the Philippines and four other countries are locked in a high decibel and international watched territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea. India has oil drilling blocks off the Coast of Vietnam and has ramped up military training including that of Submariners and Sukhoi-30 fighter pilots.

"The sale of at least four patrol vessels comes as part of the $100 million credit line for military extended to Vietnam by India," Rear Admiral AK Verma (retd) Chairman and Managing Director of GRSE said.

These patrol vessels will be about 35 meters in length, 10 meters broad and will have specialized Aluminum Hull. They will be used to patrol the waters close to the shore. Vietnam needs at least seven more such ships and GRSE is expected to get the order for the rest of the ships as well.

For the Philippines order, GRSE is competing with six foreign ship yards - Navantia, Spain, STX, France and Hyundai, Daewoo, and STX from Korea.

"We have been looking out to export ships for about a year and half, however under the Modi government there is more urgency and stress on exports," a senior GRSE officer told NDTV explaining fresh forays of the shipyard to foreign shores.

India to Sell Warships to Vietnam Increase Footprints in South China Sea

 

[Politico]

Good for them. The company is doing well.

 

[Vikrant]

Sri Lanka will be the next customer.

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KOLKATA: India will now export two warships to Sri Lanka after delivering a warship to Mauritius for the first time, minister of state for defence production Rao Inderjit Singh said here on Saturday.

"From Sri Lanka, we have received an order to build two off-shore patrol vehicles (OPV) and they are under construction in Goa Shipyard," the minister said on the sidelines of the ceremonial delivery of warship CGS Barracuda to the Mauritian Coast Guard.

He said the ships are entirely indigenously built and there hasn't been any technology cooperation with any foreign partners.

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KOLKATA: India will now export two warships to Sri Lanka after delivering a warship to Mauritius for the first time, minister of state for defence production Rao Inderjit Singh said here on Saturday.

"From Sri Lanka, we have received an order to build two off-shore patrol vehicles (OPV) and they are under construction in Goa Shipyard," the minister said on the sidelines of the ceremonial delivery of warship CGS Barracuda to the Mauritian Coast Guard.

He said the ships are entirely indigenously built and there hasn't been any technology cooperation with any foreign partners.

After Mauritius India to export warships to Sri Lanka - The Times of India

 

[Vikrant]

A slightly dated but fairly good article.

India and Vietnam Advance Their Strategic Partnership The Diplomat

 

[Indofred]

Excellent news.
India, a member of the BRICS group, will sell weapons to communist Vietnam, the country that kicked America's arse not all that long ago.

 

[Vikrant]

Excellent news.
India, a member of the BRICS group, will sell weapons to communist Vietnam, the country that kicked America's arse not all that long ago.

Even U.S. is ready to sell weapons to Vietnam if Vietnam wants expensive weapons.

 

[Indofred]

Excellent news.
India, a member of the BRICS group, will sell weapons to communist Vietnam, the country that kicked America's arse not all that long ago.

Even U.S. is ready to sell weapons to Vietnam if Vietnam wants expensive weapons.

Yes, a real spit in the face for injured and dead US soldiers.
And Vietnam is being given the guns, the US taxpayer is footing the bill.
I'll bet the vets love that.

 

[Vikrant]

Excellent news.
India, a member of the BRICS group, will sell weapons to communist Vietnam, the country that kicked America's arse not all that long ago.

Even U.S. is ready to sell weapons to Vietnam if Vietnam wants expensive weapons.

Yes, a real spit in the face for injured and dead US soldiers.
And Vietnam is being given the guns, the US taxpayer is footing the bill.
I'll bet the vets love that.

You cannot live in past. Most Americans realize that Vietnam was an unfortunate affair. But this does not mean, Vietnam and U.S. cannot be friends today.

 

[Indofred]

And I thought the US was anti communist; the reason all your troops died fighting out there.
The communist government there must be pissing their pants, laughing at America.

 

[irosie91]

FINALLY!!!! some GOOD NEWS------I feel like I got a Christmas present

 

[Vikrant]

And I thought the US was anti communist; the reason all your troops died fighting out there.
The communist government there must be pissing their pants, laughing at America.

U.S. is not anti-communist. It is evident from good relation between U.S. and China.

 

[Indofred]

And I thought the US was anti communist; the reason all your troops died fighting out there.
The communist government there must be pissing their pants, laughing at America.

U.S. is not anti-communist. It is evident from good relation between U.S. and China.

Are you joking?
The US has engaged in communist purges, and several wars in piss poor attempts to remove communism from the world.
All very foolish because communism can't possibly work, so destroys itself.
What good relations between America and China.
The US is doing its best to cause as much trouble as possible with China.

 

[irosie91]

china's communism-----what's left of it----is no threat to the USA-----china IS a threat to the region local to china

 

[Indofred]

china's communism-----what's left of it----is no threat to the USA-----china IS a threat to the region local to china

Perhaps you can explain why the USA is messing about in the region.
My suggestion would be, fat bags of corrupt cash for the US politicians.

 

[irosie91]

china's communism-----what's left of it----is no threat to the USA-----china IS a threat to the region local to china

Perhaps you can explain why the USA is messing about in the region.
My suggestion would be, fat bags of corrupt cash for the US politicians.

You are confused----BAKSHEEESH is Persian word-----and a concept adopted into the Arabian culture. Like FGM it precedes islam but spread to arabia--and with the inception of islam and its "glorious" age of conquest---spread WITH islam

 

[Vikrant]

And I thought the US was anti communist; the reason all your troops died fighting out there.
The communist government there must be pissing their pants, laughing at America.

U.S. is not anti-communist. It is evident from good relation between U.S. and China.

Are you joking?
The US has engaged in communist purges, and several wars in piss poor attempts to remove communism from the world.
All very foolish because communism can't possibly work, so destroys itself.
What good relations between America and China.
The US is doing its best to cause as much trouble as possible with China.

U.S. has given China the status of Most-Favored-Nation. Under this status China has received modern technology and billions and billions of dollars in investment. U.S. in its commerce relations with China gladly runs a trade deficit which is higher than the GNP of most nations in the world. Are these not the signs of good relations between the U.S. and China?

 

[Vikrant]

china's communism-----what's left of it----is no threat to the USA-----china IS a threat to the region local to china

China poses a threat to the whole world. Only thing lacking is the capacity right now.

 

[irosie91]

china's communism-----what's left of it----is no threat to the USA-----china IS a threat to the region local to china

China poses a threat to the whole world. Only thing lacking is the capacity right now.

well----probably ---but maybe not-----china seems to be evolving
away from EVANGELISTIC COMMUNISM. It does pose a
IMPERIALISTIC threat against India (IMHO) no matter what its
political or economic ideology is ---or isn't ---at any given time

 

[irosie91]

And I thought the US was anti communist; the reason all your troops died fighting out there.
The communist government there must be pissing their pants, laughing at America.

U.S. is not anti-communist. It is evident from good relation between U.S. and China.

Are you joking?
The US has engaged in communist purges, and several wars in piss poor attempts to remove communism from the world.
All very foolish because communism can't possibly work, so destroys itself.
What good relations between America and China.
The US is doing its best to cause as much trouble as possible with China.

U.S. has given China the status of Most-Favored-Nation. Under this status China has received modern technology and billions and billions of dollars in investment. U.S. in its commerce relations with China gladly runs a trade deficit which is higher than the GNP of most nations in the world. Are these not the signs of good relations between the U.S. and China?

The US is characteristically INCAUTIOUS------there is no problem between the USA and China-------no present, ongoing
problem -----lots of potential problems based on the ambitions
of China-------sorta IMPERIALISTIC

 

[Vikrant]

china's communism-----what's left of it----is no threat to the USA-----china IS a threat to the region local to china

China poses a threat to the whole world. Only thing lacking is the capacity right now.

well----probably ---but maybe not-----china seems to be evolving
away from EVANGELISTIC COMMUNISM. It does pose a
IMPERIALISTIC threat against India (IMHO) no matter what its
political or economic ideology is ---or isn't ---at any given time

You apparently not have been following the news about Chinese confrontation with Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and so on.