Captain of 'made in Vietnam' weapons systems

Major General Duong Van Yen has made great contributions, creating breakthroughs in science and technology, bringing many modern "made in Vietnam" weapons products to life, affirming the progress of Vietnam's defense industry.

In the flow of the scientific and technological revolution, when countries compete to master core technology to enhance national defense strength, Vietnam has been making its own mark. Among those important achievements, there is the contribution of Major General Duong Van Yen, Deputy Director of the General Department of Defense Industry.

He is the one who has devoted much effort to creating breakthroughs in the field of science and defense technology. Major General Duong Van Yen's contributions were praised by General Secretary To Lam at the 11th Military Emulation Congress.

Major General Duong Van Yen PHOTO: DINH HUY

Putting strategy into action

In his role as head of science and technology at the General Department of Defense Industry, Major General Duong Van Yen, together with the Party Committee, the General Department's command, and staff, has developed and issued many strategic documents.

Among these, there are decrees and circulars specifying the Law on Defense Industry, Security and Industrial Mobilization in the field of research, design and manufacture of weapons and technical equipment to perfect the system of specific mechanisms and policies, create a legal corridor to mobilize and promote scientific and technological research, focusing on key and spearhead areas.

He also participated in directing the development of a specialized resolution on leadership in building a team of cadres, especially leading cadres and leading cadres in technology.

Not only participating in policy making, Major General Duong Van Yen also directly directed the implementation of infrastructure investment projects, improved research capacity, and expanded cooperation with major research centers inside and outside the military.

Thanks to that, many national scientific and technological resources were mobilized, and the world's military scientific and technical advances were absorbed and appropriately applied to Vietnam's reality.

From 2020 to present, Major General Duong Van Yen has directed the opening of 8 new national and Ministry of National Defense science and technology projects, along with more than 320 research topics and tasks at many levels, including 27 national topics and 100 Ministry of National Defense topics.

He himself is the head of 5 important science and technology projects and programs such as the national project TL-01, the Ministry of National Defense projects KC.NQ.06, KC-2030, XCB-01.

According to Major General Duong Van Yen, the process of implementing science and technology programs is not easy because our ability to master core technology and basic technology is limited, leading experts are lacking, and we have to proactively research, learn, and decode because there are no technical documents to transfer and information about products (this is a national secret of each country).

Meanwhile, military conflicts disrupt supply chains, along with embargo policies between countries, seriously affecting the search for specialized materials and supplies...

Some modern weapons produced by the General Department of Defense Industry PHOTO: SCREENSHOT

Types of UAVs, USVs... PHOTO: SCREENSHOT

New generation machine gun PHOTO: SCREENSHOT

Anti-frogman gun PHOTO: SCREENSHOT

Mastering many new weapons that few countries can do

Faced with these difficulties, Major General Yen and the General Department's commanders chose a proactive and creative solution by establishing specialized research groups, gathering scientific and technical staff inside and outside the General Department to solve key and urgent tasks.

He also boldly proposed new mechanisms to increase the initiative of units and shorten the time to implement projects. From here, many specific mechanisms for national defense science and technology were formed.

From 2020 to now, there have been over 90 types of new weapons and technical equipment products of scientific and technological research topics and projects put into series "0" production, accounting for over 80% of the number of research topics evaluated and accepted as meeting requirements or higher.

Among them, many important infantry weapons and military equipment have been successfully produced such as: infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery, naval artillery, reconnaissance and combat UAVs, low-altitude air defense missiles, combat parts for medium-range anti-ship missiles, etc.

Some types of weapons and technical equipment have high scientific and technological content, which are among the few countries that can master them, such as new generation anti-tank weapons; new generation machine guns; guns and mortar shells that have sound suppression when fired, without flash and muzzle explosion...

In the field of shipbuilding, Major General Duong Van Yen has coordinated with the leaders of the General Department to successfully deploy technical work to build new combat ships, search and rescue ships, multi-purpose submarines, landing transport ships, and small submarines...

XCB-01 and XTC-02 vehicles participate in the parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Day, September 2. PHOTO: DINH HUY

"In particular, the XTC-02 armored combat vehicle and XCB-01 infantry fighting vehicle were successfully researched and manufactured by the General Department of Defense Industry in a short time and were honored to participate in the parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Day on September 2," said Major General Duong Van Yen.

He also acknowledged that the results in scientific and technological research have contributed to putting Vietnam on the list of countries in the world that can independently research, produce, and repair most types of weapons for infantry divisions; gradually mastering the design and manufacturing of modern weapons for military branches.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/thuyen-truong-cua-cac-he-thong-vu-khi-made-in-viet-nam-185250925163332048.htm