Vietnam People's Navy

The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; Vietnamese: Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), internally the Naval Service (Vietnamese: Quân chủng Hải quân (QCHQ)), also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy (Vietnamese: Hải quân Việt Nam), is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsible for the protection of the country's national waters, islands, and interests of the maritime economy, as well as for the co-ordination of maritime police, customs service and the border defence force.

This article is about the current Vietnamese navy. For the navy of South Vietnam, see Republic of Vietnam Navy.

Vietnam People's Navy

7 May 1955

1955 - 1976:
North Vietnam
1976 - now:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Naval force

Naval warfare and amphibious warfare

50,000 officers and sailors
109 ships (including auxiliaries)

People's Army of Vietnam

Navy Command, 27 Điện Biên Phủ, Minh Khai, Hồng Bàng District, Haiphong

Naval Service
Vietnam(ese) Navy

Đảo là nhà, Biển cả là quê hương (Our Home are the Islands, Our Homeland is the Sea)

Purple, White

Lướt sóng ra khơi (Surfing to the sea)

7 May 1955

6 submarines
9 frigates
14 corvettes
54 patrol vessels
6 amphibious warfare ships
8 minesweepers
1 training vessel
11 Auxiliaries

Vietnam War
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
Johnson South Reef Skirmish
MT Zafirah hijacking

Vice admiral Trần Thanh Nghiêm

Lieutenant general Nguyễn Văn Bổng

Rear admiral Phạm Mạnh Hùng

Kamov Ka-28 Helix-A

Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma, Kamov Ka-32T Helix-C

Viking Air DHC-6 Series 400

Naval Headquarters (Bộ tư lệnh Hải quân) takes command of the entire Navy

Naval Regions (Vùng Hải quân) , 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

1st

Naval Brigade (Lữ đoàn Hải quân)

Naval Regiment (Trung đoàn Hải quân)

Naval Battalion (Hải đoàn)

Squadron (Hải đội)

Vietnam Coast Guard

Republic of Vietnam Navy

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Vũng Rô Bay Incident

Cooke, Nola; Li, Tana; Anderson, James, eds. (2011). (illustrated ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812243369. Retrieved 4 January 2013.

The Tongking Gulf Through History

Lary, Diana (2007). Diana Lary (ed.). (illustrated ed.). UBC Press. ISBN 978-0774813334. Retrieved 4 January 2013.

The Chinese State at the Borders

Supriyanto, Ristian Atriandi, ed. (2017). Naval Modernisation in Southeast Asia: Problems and Prospects for Small and Medium Navies. 9783319584065.

ISBN

Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry (1996). (illustrated ed.). SUNY Press. ISBN 0791426874. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty (Ming Tai Huan Kuan)

Wade, Geoff (2005). . Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore. Retrieved 6 November 2012.

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