Vietnam Navy's BPS-500 get Russian Missile upgrade

Translated from Vietnamese.

Under contract with JSC Rosoboronexport in 2013, JSC Northern Design Bureau of Russia has started work to support the re-engineering of repair and upgrade missile patrol boats BPS-500 single Navy Vietnam, this information has been confirmed in the 2013 financial statements of the company.

BPS-500 is a small rocket ship  62m long, 11m wide with a full load output of 520 tons, 50 crew. The ship is equipped with the diesel engine speed of 30 knots / h, 30-day journey reserves.

Electronic systems on board Pozitiv ME multimode radar reconnaissance and aerial targets at sea, has a range of over 100km reconnaissance, target detection can fly with area radar reflectivity (RCS) 1m2 fly at 1.000m from the 11km, detecting anti-ship missiles have RCS of 0.03 m2 at a height of 15m, 15km away. Radar can track 15 targets at the same time, sticking 3-5 goals. In addition, the system also ships fire control radar gun and rocket fire and communications systems.

It should be noted that, Severnoe Russian design institute has also recently introduced a new variant of BPS-500 corvette with configurable weapons more powerful than the 381-ship Navy HQ Vietnam. Accordingly, the new variant is equipped ships gunboats A-190E caliber 100 mm instead of 176 mm AK-gunboats and is equipped with anti-submarine torpedo Paket-E (new torpedo system and modern Most of the Russian Navy). With these improvements, variations corvette new BPS-500 will have superior power, more versatile instead of just floating anti-ship function.