In June 2022, India and Vietnam signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on mutual logistics support.
The two countries have signed the “Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam defence partnership towards 2030.”
Hanoi has procured 12 high speed patrol boats for the Vietnamese border guard force under a $100 million Line of Credit (LoC) extended in September 2014.
In 2016, India extended another $500 million defence LoC.
India has also announced gifting two simulators and monetary grant towards the setting up of a Language and IT Lab at the Air Force Officers Training School for capacity building in the Vietnamese armed forces.
India and Vietnam have shared a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership since 2016.
Vietnam was the first country in the Southeast Asian region with whom India had signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement in 2007.
In the early 2000s, both sides also signed a defence protocol through which Vietnam could procure military helicopters and equipment for the repair of Vietnamese aircraft.
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