Vietnam will Close its Own 4000-ton Battleship

09 Februari 2019

The Damen class battleship Crossover 115 Security of Damen Shipbuilding Group (images : Damen)

The documentary "Vision 4.0 of Vietnamese brand ships" revealed information about the ambition of Vietnam's military shipbuilding industry.

In the interview about 189 Shipbuilding Company, Major General Doan Hung Minh, - Vice Chairman of General Department of Defense Industry said:

"... certainly in the near future, Z189 will rise to build ships of larger scale. There are even a few times more water stretch than the ships that are currently built.

On those ships, it is sure to integrate high-tech weapons, high-tech weapons, to ensure our combat capability. It is not only the combat on the water but also the underwater operation. "

Besides, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Tran The Vy - Director of the Z189 Factory further clarified:

"... with 30 years of cumulative shipbuilding experience and the active research and design, manufacturing and application of 4.0 technology and science achievements of the world into practice.

To build the factory to become an advanced, modern shipbuilding facility, on a par with the area, capable of closing grams of large military ships, water stretching to 4,000 tons ".

Based on the above statements, we have enough basis to expect the bright future of Vietnam's military shipbuilding industry, the foreseeable future will create a multi-purpose surface water battleship twice as large. Gepard 3.9.

The current concern is the 4,000-tonne water-warship class that the Z189 plant specifically refers to, which is a design of Russian, European origin, or Vietnamese self-study. save in the country.

However, it should be noted that the Z189 factory is the basis of close cooperation with the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen, which is still executing many layers of patrol boats, cargo ships, amphibious ships ... according to the set. Their design, so the high probability of this 4,000-ton battleship is also Damen's product.

After reviewing some of Damen's products, it is most suitable for the leaders' statements Z189 and General Department of Defense Industry is the Crossover 115 Security class with a load of 4,500 tons and 115 tons m.

This class of battleships has a very advanced module design that allows to customize the weapon configuration according to user requirements. During the patrol mission, it carried only a 76.2 mm Oto Melara Super Rapid gunboat with two Millennium CIWS anti-aircraft guns of 35 mm size.

However, the empty space in front of the ship can immediately integrate the multi-purpose vertical launcher of Mk 41 of the US or UKSK, the radar tower is easily attached to a modern AFAR active phase array radar. .

When fully armed, Crossover 115 Security will become an ultra-modern missile defense ship with the power of light across the destroyer.

With the ability to flexibly customize equipment and close cohesion with the Z189 Factory for many years, this is the brightest candidate for the future 4,000-ton "made in Vietnam" class battleship.

(BaoDatViet)