India to gift indigenously-built in-service Missile Corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam

India to gift indigenously-built in-service Missile Corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam

• Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh today held bilateral talks with Minister of National Defence of Vietnam General Phan Van Giang in New Delhi.
• Progress on various bilateral defence cooperation initiatives was reviewed during the meeting, with both sides expressing satisfaction at the ongoing engagements. Both Ministers identified means to enhance existing areas of collaboration, especially in the field of defence industry cooperation, maritime security and multinational cooperation. The Raksha Mantri also announced the gifting of an indigenously-built in-service Missile Corvette INS Kirpan which will be a milestone in enhancing the capabilities of Vietnam People’s Navy.
• As part of his engagements, the Defence Minister of Vietnam also visited DRDO headquarters and discussed ways to enhance defence industrial capabilities by cooperation in defence research and joint production.
• India and Vietnam share a comprehensive strategic partnership and bilateral defence relations are a strong pillar of this partnership. Defence engagements between the two nations have diversified to include wide-ranging contacts between the services, military-to-military exchanges, high-level visits, capacity building, training programmes, cooperation in UN Peacekeeping and bilateral exercises.

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Published date : 20 Jun 2023 06:03PM