Hau Giang’s defensive area exercise wrapped up

PANO - Hau Giang’s defensive area exercise concluded successfully on September 15, ensuring absolute safety of personnel, weapons, and equipment. This exercise attracted the participation of the whole political system with the armed forces are core participants. In the field content, troops from Commando Battalion, Reconnaissance Battalion, Engineering Brigade 25, and Signal Brigade 29 of Military Region 9 and Regiment 917 of Division 370 under the Air Defense - Air Force Service coordinated to annihilate all targets. The coordination among forces in Hau Giang’s defensive area exercise created an aggregate strength to complete all assigned missions. Speaking at the closing ceremony, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of Military Region 9 Senior Colonel Chiem Thong Nhat lauded participating forces for their obtained achievements in the exercise. He highlighted troops’ tactics and their coordination in carrying out contents. He said that the exercise contributed to raising cadres, sectors, and people’s awareness of and responsibility for building firm defensive areas. Below are photos of Hau Giang province’s defensive area exercise: Translated by Song Anh

Regiment 38 conducts live-fire exercise

10/09/2023 15:51
PANO - Regiment 38 under Military Region 5’s Division 2 recently held a live-fire exercise at National Military Training Center 2. The main content of the exercise was that the units from different arms and services closely coordinated to fight the enemy in a defensive posture. In this large-scale exercise, Binh Dinh provincial armed forces combined with units under the Ministry of National Defense and Military Region 5. The live-fire exercise ended successfully, meeting all set tactical targets and ensuring absolute safety of people and equipment. Below are some photos of the exercise. Translated by Mai Huong

Border guards effectively support border students

09/09/2023 20:57
PANO – Units under the Vietnam Border Guard Command have carried out a number of meaningful activities to assist students in border areas in their daily life and study. On the occasion of the new academic year of 2023-2024, border guard units continued to show their care for border students in localities where they are stationed. Below are several photos of meaningful activities by border guards to local students. Translated by Chung Anh

Traditional boat race festival opened in Quang Binh

03/09/2023 19:56
PANO – Quang Binh province organized a traditional boat race festival on the Kien Giang river in Le Thuy district, Quang Binh province on September 2. Imbued with the culture of the wet rice civilization and the sportsmanship spirit of the country, the festival has become a specific cultural and sports activity on the National Day in Quang Binh - hometown of General Vo Nguyen Giap. Previously, the festival was held in spring and in July (lunar calendar) to pray for favorable weather and abundant crops. Since 1946, Le Thuy district has organized the festival on September 2 to celebrate the National Day. In 2019, the festival was recognized as national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. This year’s boat race festival attracted the participation of nearly 1,300 athletes, divided into 10 female and 24 male teams. The People’s Army Newspaper would like to introduce some photos of the festival. Translated by Quynh Oanh

Military Region 2’s regular troops in flood center of Mu Cang Chai

15/08/2023 17:07
PANO - Over the past three days, despite hardships and dangers, troops from Regiment 174, Division 316, Military Region 2 have teamed with local forces to exert utmost efforts to assist flood-hit people in Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province in surmounting difficulties and stabilizing their life soon. The troops have given support to local people to overcome the consequences of the latest flash flood with the spirit of urgency, responsibility, and wholeheartedness. The green uniform of the troops in the center of the flooding has shined the image of Uncle Ho’s soldiers. The People's Army Online Newspaper would like to introduce several photos of troops’s lending helpful hands to local people to overcome the consequences of the flooding on August 14. Translated by Song Anh

Division 31 conducts live-fire exercise

03/08/2023 22:20
PANO - Division 31 under Army Corps 3 held a live-fire exercise, part of its tactical exercise for the reserve force on August 3 in Binh Dinh province. The exercise, themed “Infantry battalion attacks the enemy in mountainos terrains,” saw the presence of Major General Dang Sy Loc, Deputy Commander of Army Corps 3, and representatives of local leadership and military units stationed in the locality. During the drill, units under Division 31 shifted combat readiness status to a higher level, maneuvered force, vehicles to the designated positions, and built the battlefield. Participating troops closely coordinated with each other and flexibly applied their acquired knowledge to dealing with real situations in the mountainous terrains. The exercise helped all-level chains-of-command raise their command competence and nearly 1,000 reservists in Hoai An and Hoai Nhon districts improve their awareness of training duties to meet the requirement of safeguarding the Fatherland in the new situation. The live-fire exercise ended with absolute safety of personnel and equipment. Translated by Mai Huong

General Staff kicks off unarmed martial arts competition

02/08/2023 17:16
PANO - The General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army on August 1 kicked off the unarmed martial arts competition for martial arts clubs in the whole military in 2023. The competition attracts the participation of 504 martial arts practitioners from 41 martial arts clubs from units, military schools, provincial and municipal military commands. During the competition, participating martial arts practitioners will compete in different age groups and weight classes following the sparring format. Male athletes will compete in nine weight classes, while female participants will compete in six weight classes. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Major General Bui Hong Quang, Deputy Director of the Department of Military Training under the General Staff, required relevant agencies and units to closely coordinate with each other to make thorough preparations in accordance with the set plan. Referees, coaches and athletes should strictly observe military discipline, the rules of the competition, and the regulations of the organizing panel. The competition will run until August 11. Theo People’s Army Newspaper would like to introduce some photos of the opening event. Translated by Quynh Oanh

Reconnaissance Troops in Anti-terrorism Training

30/07/2023 18:05
PANO - In order to meet the task requirements in the current context, over the past time, Reconnaissance Battalion 28 under Army Corps 3 has actively practiced new training contents, including defeating terrorists and releasing hostages. The highlight of the new training contents is that troops perform tasks in harsh conditions at night. After receiving order from the commander, the sections promptly moved to the targeted position. They closely coordinated with other forces to arrest terrorists and free hostages. According to Major Phan Quang Luong, Deputy Head of Reconnaissance Battalion 28, reconnaissance troops need to improve their fitness, boost their endurance and adaptability to all terrain and weather conditions at night. The People’s Army Newspaper would like to introduce some photos of troops in training. Translated by Quynh Oanh

Phuc Loi Militia Force Holds Defensive Area Exercise

24/07/2023 20:05
PANO - This year’s combat exercise in the defensive area of Phuc Loi ward, Long Bien district, Hanoi comprised three stages, namely shifting the armed forces to a higher combat readiness status, shifting locality to the national defense status; preparing for the defensive operation; and conducting operations in the defensive area. In the live-fire exercise themed “Infantry platoon attacks airborne enemy,” which was new to them, the local militia force well observed techno-tactical regulations, closely coordinated, secretly maneuvered, deployed combat formation, and took advantage of terrains to down the targets, fulfilling the exercise with safety of personnel, weapons, and equipment. Translated by Mai Huong

Largest-ever live-fire exercise of Air Defense - Air Force Service

21/07/2023 17:30
PANO - The Air Defense - Air Force Service (ADAF) held a live-fire exercise for the air force in the whole military in 2023 on July 20 in Thanh Hoa province. This year, the ADAF required participating units to select young and inexperienced pilots for the exercise to access their mastery of weapons and equipment. The exercise’s requirement was higher than that of previous years and closer to combat situation contents. Although the exercise was carried out in unfavorable weather conditions, participating units applied theory to reality and built a concrete firing and bombing plans and methods for troops. As a result, all participating troops achieved good and excellent results. The exercise’s results accurately reflected the training quality of participating units, troops’ capability of mastering weapons, estimating, operating, and handling situations, as well as the stance of flight commanders and pilots. Also, it will be a basis for the ADAF to direct its units to improve the training quality and combat competence, as well as ensuring flight safety to meet task requirements in the new period. The People’s Army Newspaper would like to introduce some photos of the exercise. Translated by Quynh Oanh

Photos of pilots performing missions

18/07/2023 16:41
PANO - The Air Defense - Air Force Service is organizing a military air traffic control competition and a live-fire exercise for troops of Regiment 923 under Division 371 in Tho Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province. The five-day event, which started on July 16, aims to enhance the command capability as well as coordination among officers at the regiment level in the whole service. The exercise is also an opportunity to evaluate the work of ensuring aviation engineering, technical and logistics supplies at airports, and communication for combat training and combat missions. In addition, the event is to check the capabilities of navigation teams at the command post and radar station, pilots’ ability to detect and intercept targets, as well as helicopter crews’ calculation and estimation skills. It offers an opportunity for participating units to evaluate their training quality, air safety, and implementation of air traffic control work, thus having measures to raise troops’ capability to meet mission requirements in the new period. Below are photos of participating forces performing navigation missions for fighters to intercept targets on July 17. Translated by Tran Hoai

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