Gee, I thought the Q-5 Fantan is obsolete and the Chinese want to put the type out of service, but no, they actually bothered giving the aircraft a new make over. I also notice the L-15, really nice, is it a new advanced trainer?

I’m really a big fan of the MiG-25/31, but I believe the MiG-25 is obsolete by today’s standards and the MiG-31 still have a few years to go, always wondering why there are no customers for the 31.

That’s terrible. How could such a thing happened.

A question for Indian members, does anyone know the relations between the Indian and Vietnamese air forces?

Earlier this year, I found an article saying that Vietnam have signed a deal with HAL for the upgrade of MiG-21s, plus, India also offered help in training Vietnamese personnel at Indian Institutes, so I wondering how these developments have gone so far.

Any info on the Su-22 upgrade? What kind of avionics and weapons?

Don’t know much about the Su-22 upgrades, bit it seems that Vietnam is really interested in Su-22UM two-seaters.

If Vietnam settles their differences with China theywould not have any real enemies

True, but sometimes its the Chinese who are the bullies and choose to pick on Vietnam, these days the Vietnamese people have nothing against China or it’s people.

On the subject of Vietnamese strike force, Vietnam have hold talks with the Ukraine on the purchase of some Su-22s, and a contract have been signed with HAL to upgrade MiG-21s. As for the Su-27/30s, I think Vietnam will buy more in future as the country’s ecenomy continue to grow, but as for the MiG-29 I doubt Vietnam will ever spend money on those or LCA and FC-1.

Mate if anyone does find any they’d be legends, anyone caught taking pics of military stuff in that country are shot on sight, they don’t even pretend to ask questions.

A Laotian Riverine unit in one of their bases.

This is all I could find, very poor format but at least I find something on Laos. 🙂