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1. ITAD M-400 (M-400 UAV was an experimental reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle was designed and built by the Institute of Technology Air Defense by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense. Two M-400 UAVs were successfully launched in September 2005 after four years of construction with many test flights. The UAV appears to be a small model type propeller driven aircraft. The UAV never entered full service in the Vietnamese People's Air Force (plans were to have twelve built) and is no longer in service due to lack of GPS to guide the craft and other critical components (LINK)
2. A UAV made by Viettel (also known as Viettel Telecommunications Group) of Vietnam Border Guard. Viettel is one of the leading domestic suppliers of defense materials for Vietnam People Army.

1. Vietnam is facing some constraints in developing and using UAVs. The biggest one is that it lacks a legal framework regulating their development and application. Foreign partners outpace Vietnamese UAV developers, especially in terms of technology. The domestic proliferation of civilian UAVs – and especially camera-equipped UAVS, or flycams – by individuals or non-state actors may threaten the safety of low-flying planes and military helicopters. Bureaucratic procedures for testing, flying, or exporting UAVs are also quite complicated and need to be simplified soon. The market for UAVs in Vietnam is small but developing and holds great potential for further expansion. Today, however, some of the integrated modern technologies must still be imported or purchased from foreign partners.
2. Vietnam to buy six military drones from Boeing: US defense department Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received an order for six unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) from Vietnam, the U.S. Department of Defense said Saturday. Insitu would manufacture six ScanEagle UAVs worth $9.7 million for the Vietnamese government, the department said in a statement. It would also provide components and spare parts and training in their use, and send experts for a certain period for technical support. The contract will be executed by March 2022. Yeong Tae Pak, Boeing’s marketing director for defense sales in Southeast Asia, had said last March at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition in Malaysia that the sale of UAVs to the Vietnamese Coast Guard would be supported through U.S. Foreign Military Financing. The five-foot-long ScanEagle is a long-range, low-altitude reconnaissance drone. It can operate above 15,000 feet and hover over a battlefield for extended missions of up to 20 hours, depending on its configuration. In February the U.S.’s Indo-Pacific Command chief, Admiral Phil Davidson, said in a statement that Vietnam is acquiring equipment from the U.S., including Boeing Insitu ScanEagle UAVs, Beechcraft T-6 Texan II trainer aircraft and a second decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard cutter. In August last year a local newspaper quoted an unnamed U.S. State Department official as saying that Vietnam had signed contracts to buy U.S. military equipment worth $94.7 million. Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has neither confirmed nor denied the report. Last March the USS Carl Vinson arrived in Da Nang on a historic visit, the first to Vietnam by an American aircraft carrier since 1975. It delivered six Metal Shark patrol boats to Vietnam.

• Vietnam Reveals New Drone for Patrolling the South China Sea The drone prototype will conduct flight tests over the South China Sea in 2016.Vietnamese media reports that the unarmed UAV prototype sports a Rotax 914 engine and a 22-meter wingspan. It has a range of up to 4,000 kilometers as well as an endurance of up to 35 hours. It will be equipped with unspecified optical and radar surveillance systems.In 2014, Vietnam purchased a number of Grif-K tactical drones from Belarus. The Belorussian UAV has a wingspan of 5.7 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 120 kilograms, and a payload of 25 kilograms.In 2014 and 2015, Vietnam also ordered Israel-made Orbiter 2 and Orbiter 3 drones for use in the Vietnamese Army’s artillery corps. Vietnam has been trying to build an indigenous UAV since at least 2008. In May 2013, Hanoi flight tested six drones, all with inferior performance characteristics in comparison to the new HS-6L prototype as The Diplomat reported
• In November 2012, Sweden agreed to partner with Vietnam’s Aerospace Association to produce medium-range unmanned aerial vehicles for use in defense and security-related missions. The cooperation agreement will follow through in three parts: During phase one, Sweden will fund two medium-range Magic Eye 1 drones, provide equipment, model design and technology transfer, and send experts to Vietnam.
• In May 2013, Vietnam’s Academy of Science and Technology successfully tested five native unmanned aerial vehicles. The event was attended by both the Minister of National Defense and Minister of Public Security. The biggest UAV has an operational range of 62 miles, can reach a height of 990 feet, and a maximum speed of 111 miles per hour. The smallest has an operational range of 1 mile, can reach heights of 654 feet, and a maximum speed of 43 miles per hour.

1. In May 2013, Vietnam announced it would buy military drones from Belarus. Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich and Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dang announced further partnerships between the two countries in the fields of science and technology and the prospect of future military collaborations.
2. In July 2013, Viettel, a mobile network operator owned by the Minister of National Defense, introduced the VT-Patrol unmanned aircraft. Following the release of the VT-Patrol, Director General Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Anh revealed that Viettel aims to become one of the world’s top international investors in arms development by 2020. 
3. In June, Reuters reported Vietnam is in talks with European and U.S. contractors to buy military drones as well as other aircraft in light of China’s growing presence in the South China Sea.
4. In June 2018, the French journal Intelligence Online reported that two firms, Israel Aerospace Industries and Aeronautics, were competing for a Vietnamese tender for Class III unmanned aircraft.5  According to a report in December 2018, Vietnam approved the acquisition of three IAI Herons in a deal worth approximately $160 million.6 This deal has yet to be confirmed by either Israel or Vietnam. • The Vietnamese Border Defense Force (Bộ đội Biên phòng Việt Nam or BPSP) may have acquired a Class I drone that closely resembles the U.S. AeroVironment Raven. The UAV was displayed at a January 2019 event attended by BPSP command. A March 2019 report in a Vietnamese media outlet speculated that the drone may have been produced domestically.
5. Vietnam produces various indigenous unmanned aerial vehicles.AV.UAV. Ms1: Surveillance UAV created by the Academy of Science and Technology. This UAV has a wingspan of 4 ft and a flight endurance of 1 hour. It can handle payloads of specialized cameras for surveillance purposes.
6. AV. UAV. S1: Surveillance UAV created by the Academy of Science and Technology. This UAV has a wingspan of 9 ft and a flight endurance of 2 hour. It can handle payloads of specialized cameras for surveillance purposes.
7. AV. UAV. S3: Surveillance UAV created by the Academy of Science and Technology. This UAV has a wingspan of 11 ft and a flight endurance of 5 hours. It can handle payloads of specialized cameras for surveillance purposes.
8. AV. UAV. S4: Surveillance UAV created by the Academy of Science and Technology. This UAV has a wingspan of 16 feet and a flight endurance of 6 hours. It can handle payloads of specialized cameras for surveillance purposes.
9. VT-Patrol UAV: Surveillance UAV produced by Viettel corporations. This UAV has a wingspan of 10 ft and a flight endurance of 15-24 hours. It can handle payloads of infrared cameras and can transmit information in real time and recognize a human target 2,000 ft away. Viettel has plans to arm this vehicle with missiles in the future.

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A drone video posted to DJI’s Youtube channel gives a sweeping aerial perspective Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Drone enthusiast Ryan Deboodt made a popular video of Vietnam’s Hang Son Doong cave, the largest cave in the world.

Currently in Vietnam, UAV components and enabling technologies come from two sources: domestic development and foreign commercial purchases. Developers such as Viettel and HTI are able to independently design and develop all kinds of small, simple, and short-range UAVs. Components such as cover, frames, wings, and tails have been made from domestic polymer composites. Viettel and HTI also successfully developed software programs for positioning short- and medium-distance UAV control.3 In the late 1990s and early 2000s, some important components such as UAV engines or electronic devices had to be imported commercially, but today they can be found easily in domestic markets.