A delegation of Russia’s Rosoboronexport is in Ho Chi Minh now, holding the final talks for delivery of two escort vessels of Project 11661 Gepard-3.9 to Vietnam with the deal probably clinched in time of this visit. For Tatarstan’s Zelenodolsk Shipbuilder it will be the first military export contract from the time of the Soviet Union.
Rosoboronexport and Defense Ministry of Vietnam have been talking over the deal for around three years already. The initial project set forth construction of Tiger corvettes by St. Petersburg Severnaya Verf shipbuilder, which is controlled by Mezhprombank. It took two years for Vietnam to study documentation before it rejected the corvettes on fears, a source involved in the talks said, that testing may fail to confirm the speed ability of the ships. Tiger still exists as a project version with not a single vessel finally constructed.
Urged by delay with Tigers, Rosoboronexport put forward upgraded Gepard-3.9 escort vessels as an option. Vietnam approved the technical image of Gepard project past December, having terminated Tigers at the same time.
Gepard-3.9 was designed in early 1980s to fight submarines and surface ships and to destroy air targets. Upgraded Gepard will be constructed under the Stealth technology and equipped with modern armaments of Russia, including Palma-SU air defense system, Uran guided-missile system and Ka-28 ship-based helicopters.
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