Viettel is confident in producing military equipment

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Chien - Director of Viettel Research and Development Institute said that he received orders from the Ministry of Defense, the group produced military equipment which must be imported such as radars, airspace management systems or airplanes. driver

-In the field of military equipment production, only huge military technology complexes in newly developed countries have implemented. Why is Vietnam producing in part, instead of importing, sir?

- If you import 100% from abroad, there are also issues to consider. First, when buying a foreign device, it depends on them for life. When you fail, or want to upgrade, you have to rely on a foreign partner and they ask what price you are forced to hear. These suppliers do not even need to offer sales, based on the collected information they know and judge that a country will be forced to equip weapons, equipment to deal with the situation, and they sat waiting for people to buy. The next consequence is to affect military secrets, because through the number of purchases, they can deduce the payroll of a national army.

The second is financially. When it is completely dependent on foreign countries, the price of equipment is very expensive, not even true to the price because few people can do it in the world. Here, I want to emphasize the national secret element with military information equipment. As for successful production, the first story that can be seen immediately saves a lot of money. The products we can do, savings compared to buying are not 5-10 times, but there are even hundreds of times. Next, when solving the problem of mastery of technology, the construction of combat situations of Vietnamese people is very fast. Previously, for a Russian device in the field of air defense, want to change, upgrade a feature that takes 6 months to 1 year. Now, we (Viettel's technology experts) can do it in a week. However, it must be clearly recognized, this is a very difficult field.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Chien - Director of Viettel Research Institute

- The core industry is telecommunications and information technology but Viettel decided to invest in producing military information equipment - a new and difficult field. Could you tell me the reason?

- In fact, the application of technology in civil or military products is on the same platform. Most people know Samsung, LG . are civil equipment suppliers, but their products actually contribute greatly to Korea's defense. Viettel is a military enterprise, has access to the technology of manufacturing electronic telecommunications equipment, there is no reason not to contribute to military power. Here, I would also like to explain clearly that Viettel focuses on the production of military equipment that requires the application of information technology and automatic control. With this field, Viettel can completely master the technology, both hardware and software.

- What is the concept of "Viettel mastering technology" that you can understand, sir?

- Viettel's point of view since doing telecommunications is: when we intend to do something that we do not know, we must do it ourselves. Our way is to just jump in, the original problem has 10 unknowns, we divide it into manageable groups, and 2 - 3 unknowns are hard to handle and find partners, teams bidding to transfer. That way helps us to deliver the right content with real value. Nowadays information is very much and documents can be bought, good teachers can also access but if not build the apparatus to start and start working, there will never be products, even When someone wants to teach, transferring to them is also difficult to learn. After a period of applying the above principle, it is now starting to have partners interested to see what Viettel has researched to share with them.

For example, when we embarked on a 50W amplifier for military information machines, we contacted some foreign partners who raised the issue of technology acquisition. However, there are partners who require to buy 100 sets, and cost about 5 million to transfer this scheme. For other partners, if they want to buy 1 set of samples, it will take 6-8 months. So we decided to do our own research and as a result, we could do it ourselves within 8 months, exactly the time of waiting for delivery if buying foreign products. We have produced dozens of sets that cost only 200 thousand dollars, but the technical parameters are very good. Some foreign partners have begun to order. Currently, Viettel Research Institute has made 8 different types of communication devices with technology in the fourth generation (the most advanced machine in the world is in the fifth generation).

VRU611 - military single-sideband short-wave radio transceiver produced by Viettel, used for non-search communication and micro-tuning in the frequency range from 30MHz to 15.9999MHz.

- Participating in a difficult and challenging field, what is Viettel's goal?

- Our goal is that all products of Viettel Research Institute must be fully owned, up to standard, competitive and cheap. The previous foreign products sold to themselves, compared to people are outdated, people own the technology higher and they sell the old one, Viettel must study to shorten the distance. With the military model, we apply the combat model as all battle facilities must be connected to each other and can be controlled remotely. The heroic Vietnamese Army will not only be associated with the legends of the rifle gun, the machete, the size of the guerrilla force, but we have the ability, the level of access to production of weapons, modern equipment, have enough confidence to come on the electronic battle front, ready to prevent high-tech war.

4 main tasks assigned by the Ministry of Defense to Viettel include radio, military information, airspace management system, UAV unmanned aircraft, and in 2 years (from September 2011 to present), basically completed As a sample product, testing at the units reached an initial figure of 60%, striving to put this figure into use this year to reach 80% as targeted.