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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Russia Floats Out Fourth Stealth Submarine for Vietnamese Navy

Kilo class SSKThe fourth Russian Varshavyanka-class submarine for delivery to the Vietnamese navy has been launched in a ceremony at the shipyard where it was built, St. Petersburg city officials said Friday.

Vietnam signed a contract in 2009 to buy six of the diesel-electric submarines - dubbed "black holes in the ocean" by US navy officials for their near invisibility - in a deal reportedly worth $2 billion.

Analysts saw the purchase as a move to counterbalance China's expanding maritime influence in the region.

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