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Air Force and Air Defence Museum  
   
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 Description:   The outdoor exhibition of museum displays 73 noteable artifacts systematically, including unique weapons of Vietnamese air defense and air force like: anti-aircraft gun, radar, aircraft and missile. Some of the exhibited weapons in the museum tell a glorious war history like: the 37mm anti-aircraft To Vinh Dien's gun battery used in the Dien Bien Phu campaign 1954; the 90mm anti-aircraft made bu USA used in the first air combat victory on the 5th August 1964; the producing electromagnetic waves air traffic control radar, used during the 12 days and nights of “Dien Bien Phu On Air Campaign” against US bombings in 1972 to detect signals of B-52s, helping to idinetify the bombers half an hour ahead of its arrival; a launching pad where missiles were fired to down the first B-52s in " Dien Bien Phu-in-the-air" campaign in Hanoi in December, 1972; a MiG-21 aircraft which was used to shoot down US bomber B-52s at night on December 27, 1972.  
 Province   Hanoi  Direction:      
 District   Thanh Xuân    
 City   Khương Mai  Comments: Closed for renovation at the time of the visit in Nov 2022  Official Web:    
 Genre   Museum      Related links:   https://adventurejou  
 Best exposure   Afternoon          
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 Entry fee   N/A     GPS :   20.99891, 105.8291  
                     
                 
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