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Sunday, January 05, 2014

Vietnam’s first Russian-made sub docks at Cam Ranh


The first of six Varshavyanka-class submarines that Vietnam ordered from Russia docked at Cam Ranh military port Friday, ending its journey of more than six and a half weeks from Russia.

Thanh Nien reporters witnessed the Rolldock Sea submerge gradually in the morning and its hatch open so that the HQ182 Hanoi could float in the water and exit the vessel.

The Rolldock Sea, a Netherlands-flagged heavy lift vessel that carried the submarine from St. Petersburg to Cam Ranh, was staying at a site nearby to the port in Khanh Hoa Province’s Cam Ranh Bay.

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