Vietnam builds tank training ground to prepare for army games

It is coming up on a shooting range belonging to the National Military Training Center No.2 in Tay Son District, Binh Dinh Province, and, once completed, will have a scale and equipment similar to that of the Alabino Military Training Ground in Moscow, Russia, where the games' Tank Biathlon competition will take place.

Russia said in March that it expected to hold the 2021 International Army Games from August 22 to September 4 with 34 disciplines hosted by various countries.

Vietnam will host the Military Medical Relay Race and the second group stage of the Sniper Frontier contest.

Last year it had sent a team of 125 officers and men to compete in 11 of the games' 31 events.

The Vietnamese team won the final round in Group 2 of the Tank Biathlon, its first win in its third attempt.

The biathlon had 16 crews divided into two divisions based on the previous year's results. Group 1 had Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Serbia, and Uzbekistan, and Vietnam was grouped with Abkhazia, Congo, Laos, Myanmar, Qatar, South Ossetia, and Tajikistan.

This year Vietnam will send for the first time warships to compete in the Sea Cup category that requires crews to take part in damage control, rescue training, seamanship, and artillery contests.

The Navy will send missile defense vessels 015 Tran Hung Dao and 016 Quang Trung that are based on the south-central coast.