Original sub designer has high hopes for Truong Sa submarine

Nguyen Huu Bao, now an old engineer, is remembered by many as the person who successfully built the unmanned torpedo disarming vessel called T5. At the time, Bao worked for the Ship Design Sub-institute, now called the Ship Technology Institute.

As a young engineer, Bao was assigned to design the engine for a mock-up of a ship which could “swim under the water to serve combatant purposes”.

In 1960s, the engineers of the sub-institute undertook the design and manufacture of implements of war. An idea was raised at that time that Vietnam needed a ship which could travel under the water in the strictest secrecy.

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