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Cam Ranh Bay (käm rän), inlet of the South China Sea, 10 mi (16 km) long and 20 mi (32 km) wide, S Vietnam. It is an excellent harbor linked to the sea by a strait (1 mi/1.6 km wide). The bay was the site of one of the largest U.S. military facilities (est. 1965) in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and was seized by Communist forces in 1975. The USSR (now Russia) established a naval base there in the early 1980s. Cam Ranh BayVietnamese Vinh Cam RanhInlet of the South China Sea, south-central Vietnam. Located between Phan Rang and Nha Trang, it was a French colonial naval base. It was used by the Japanese in World War II. From 1965 it was a major U.S. base in the Vietnam War. It later was a major Soviet naval base, and Russia maintained a presence there after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Once an important facility for power projection into the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Cam Ranh Bay is now devoid of strategic value for Russia which has disowned the intention of utilizing naval power to compete with the West. It's true that in Brezhnev's heyday, the Soviets operated far from home waters out of a large facility in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, but this is more of the chicken-or-egg problem-we built the base there to support our overseas navy. The OTA report cites one photo, taken from an aircraft, showing Soviet planes on an airfield at Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay. |
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