Vietnamese authorities are looking for a missing fighter jet that lost contact while it was flying on a training mission off the country's coastline on Tuesday, a senior army officer said.
The Russian-made SU-30MK2 was carrying two pilots when it disappeared from radar around 26 nautical miles from northern Nghe An province, state-media reported.
"We are looking for it and have no further information yet," Vo Van Tuan, the Vietnamese army's vice commander in chief, told AFP.
According to reports on state media, navy ships, fishing vessels and planes have been mobilised to search for the missing aircraft.
State-run Tuoi Tre newspaper quoted a report from the provincial border authorities that a fisherman "saw an aircraft falling down some six nautical miles east of Hon Mat island".
Vietnam has been keen to renew its almost exclusively Russian-made military hardware amid rising tensions with Beijing over disputed territory in the South China Sea.
Unofficial reports said the Southeast Asian country now owns more than 20 SU-30MK2s -- long-range strike jets known as "King Cobras".
Made by Russia's Sukhoi, the SU-30MK2 is the most advanced jet currently in Vietnam's arsenal.
During a historic visit to Vietnam last month US President Barack Obama lifted a Cold War-era ban on weapons sales to Vietnam.
The move was cheered by Hanoi's communist leadership and seen as a boost for the country as it tries to bolster its defences against its giant northern neighbour.
AFP
Tue Jun 14 2016
This photograph taken on October 21, 2015 shows a Vietnam Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MK2 multirole fighter aircraft, similar to the jet fighter that disappeared off the Vietnamese coast on June 14, 2016. - AFP Photo
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