Vietnamese MoD Announced the Decision to Establish the Artillery - Missile Command

23 Agustus 2025

General Nguyen Tan Cuong presents the Quyet Thang Military Flag to the Artillery - Missile Command (photo: QDND)

On the afternoon of August 20, General Nguyen Tan Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), Deputy Minister of National Defense chaired the ceremony to announce the decision to establish the Artillery - Missile Command.

Attending the announcement ceremony were leaders of the Ministry of National Defense ; Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army...

Speaking at the ceremony, on behalf of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, General Nguyen Tan Cuong  emphasized that the establishment of the Artillery - Missile Command is a very important event, demonstrating the new thinking and vision of the Politburo and the Central Military Commission on adjusting the organization of the Army's forces, increasingly better meeting the requirements of the cause of building, consolidating national defense and protecting the Fatherland in the current period.

General Nguyen Tan Cuong said that the Artillery - Missile Command is very proud to carry within itself the glorious tradition of the heroic Artillery Corps, of the Artillery Corps of the Vietnam People's Army, a combat arm with a long tradition, tempered in the nation's resistance wars, achieving many outstanding feats, building the 8 golden words of tradition that beloved Uncle Ho awarded "Brass feet, iron shoulders, fighting well, shooting accurately".

In the current period, facing increasingly high mission requirements, the Artillery - Missile Command is organized and built in the direction of being lean, compact, strong, and modern; the scale, organization of forces, functions, and tasks are supplemented and heavier; equipped with many types of modern weapons and means, with a wider strategic deployment. In order to successfully complete the assigned functions and tasks, General Nguyen Tan Cuong requested the Artillery - Missile Command to continue to thoroughly grasp the resolutions and conclusions of the superiors on military and defense tasks; educate to raise awareness and responsibility for all officers and soldiers about the task of protecting the Fatherland in the new situation.

Artillery support by Scud B, C, and D ballistic missile launchers system (photo: Bao QDND)

According to General Nguyen Tan Cuong, the honor and pride associated with the heavy responsibility of protecting the Fatherland requires Party committees, commanders at all levels and officers and soldiers of the Artillery - Missile Command to deeply, fully and correctly perceive the functions, tasks, positions and significance of the establishment of the Artillery - Missile Command, thereby determining determination, making strong breakthroughs, overcoming difficulties and successfully completing political tasks.

General Nguyen Tan Cuong noted that the Artillery - Missile Command continues to do a good job of strategic staff work with the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense on the strategic arrangement of artillery and missile units in the entire army, especially newly established units, and building a comprehensively strong agency and unit that is "exemplary and typical".

Quickly stabilize the organization and staffing, assign and delegate specific tasks in the Party Committee and the Command; perfect the Party Committee, Party organization, command organization, and mass organizations in newly established units, deploy activities in accordance with the functions and tasks of building strong organizations, and excellently complete all assigned tasks. Party Committees and commanders at all levels do a good job of ideological work and policies for cadres, soldiers, and employees, and are ready to receive and strictly comply with the organization's assignments and mobilizations.

Quickly develop and promulgate regulations and rules on each aspect of work; promptly supplement and perfect combat plans, strictly maintain regular order, discipline, regimes and regulations of the unit, and be highly combat ready; continue basic, synchronous and in-depth training, close to combat reality, attach importance to practical training, combined with imparting combat experience to troops, deeply and thoroughly study the use of artillery and missiles in recent conflicts to include in training, education and training; at the same time, focus on building Party committees and organizations at all levels to be truly clean and strong, take care to build a contingent of cadres and employees capable of completing immediate and long-term tasks...

General Nguyen Tan Cuong believes that, with the tradition of nearly 80 years of building, fighting, growing and developing, with new opportunities, new spirit and new determination, officers and soldiers of the Artillery - Missile Command will successfully complete all assigned tasks.

(QDND)