Vietnam Buys 40 Russian Su-35 Fighters in Covert $8 Billion Weapons Pact—With Oil Payments to Dodge Sanctions
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Vietnam has ramped up military acquisitions from Russia through covert financial channels, as highlighted in a New York Times investigation.

In mid-2025, military sources in Vietnam began circulating unconfirmed rumors that new multi-billion-dollar contracts with Russia were imminent.

Documents from Rostec identify Vietnam under the discreet label “Customer 704.” According to the sources and those documents, one deal could be worth ~$8 billion and include up to 40 new fighter jets.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I’m not forgetting any of that, I was just pointing out a fact about the relationship and history between Vietnam and Russia. It was a phantom war between Russia and the US, with both North and South Vietnam being proxies, and the North prevailed.

    The point being that Vietnam has understandable reasons to cooperate with Russia, and there’s not a whole lot we can say about it.