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| An engineer checks on the technical status of a helicopter of the national air defense force__Photo: VNA |
Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Hien, Member of the Party Central Committee, Commander of the Air Defense and Air Force, Deputy Head of the Law on People's Air Defense Drafting Committee, speaks to the People’s Army Newspaper about the draft law.
Why do we need a Law on People's Air Defense?
People's air defense is a part of all-people national defense. Today, new combat plans in modern warfare, air attack and air attack prevention have become extremely important requirements.
The Law on People's Air Defense aims to complete the guidelines and policies of the Party and State and the Constitution’s provisions on protecting the Fatherland.
Practical requirements of the national liberation and the cause of construction have affirmed that people's air defense is an important content of national defense and military work, proactively protect the country early, from afar and in any situation.
Practical research on recent conflicts around the world has showed that air attacks are the main method, especially the use of unmanned aircraft and ultra-light aircraft.
Domestically, the number of unlicensed unmanned aircraft and ultra-light aircraft is increasing and showing signs of loss of control, posing many potential threats to national defense, and aviation security and safety.
Therefore, the Law on People's Air Defense is very necessary to overcome inadequacies and limitations in the new era, perfecting the legal system on military and national defense, meeting the national guard requirements in all eventualities.
How are guidelines and policies on defense zones and all-people defense posture relevant to people's air defense?
People's air defense is a part of the all-people national defense, placed under the leadership of the Party committee, and directed, managed and operated by the Government from central to local levels.
Therefore, people's air defense is an important content of defense and military.
People's air defense posture is arranging, organizing and deploying forces, vehicles, equipment, people's air defense projects and necessary resources nationwide to carry out the people's air defense missions.
It is an integral and inseparable part of the all-people defense posture. People's air defense operations are a unique feature of Vietnamese military art that has been effectively applied in the national liberation war.
In modern warfare today, air attack and air attack prevention have become extremely important, playing a decisive role in changing the battlefield situation.
People's air defense is meaningful and even in some stages of the war, it plays a key role. From there, there is a need to build the people's air defense force, setting up a strong and comprehensive national defense, promoting the country's strength to effectively handle defense and security situations.
What is the relationship between national air defense forces, army air defense force and the people's air defense force?
Managing and protecting the airspace is an important task, carried out by various forces, at different altitudes, from near and far, of which the core is the national air defense force and the army air defense force, along with participation of the people's air defense force.
These forces are organized to have completely different functions and tasks in the posture of all-people defense and people's war.
The three forces have a close and inseparable relationship in performing the task of managing and protecting the airspace. They have clearly assigned duties, without overlapping each other's functions and tasks.
The national air defense force is the main and core one, equipped with modern weaponry, is responsible for detecting and notifying other forces and effectively fighting the enemy at different heights.
The army air defense force is the main force of the constituting military units, with the task of accompanying the constituting military units in various types of combat operations.
The people's defense force is a force that fights the enemy extensively in the local zone. It fights and overcomes the consequences of the enemy's air attacks. At its core air local soldiers, militiamen, reserve soldiers and an extensive force mobilized from the people.
The above three forces form an overall air defense force with three types of troops, creating a continuous, widespread, multi-layered, multi-directional air defense posture. It is capable of observing, detecting and attacking the enemy from near and far.- (VLLF)
