Vietnam To Acquire SA-10 Air Defense System

Vietnam To Acquire SA-10 Air Defense System
Aviation Week & Space Technology
09/08/2003, page 52

Edited by Robert Wall

READY TO GRUMBLE Vietnam is buying Russia’s S-300 air defense system, with an in-service date expected sometime after 2005. The deal, estimated at $250-300 million, would provide equipment for two air defense battalions. Vietnam would buy the PMU-1 version (NATO designation SA-10C Grumble), which entered service in Russia in 1992 and has been sold to China and Cyprus.