According to information posted by the US side, the ship CSB 8021 has been renovated and tested by the US side, handed over to the Vietnamese side, and set off to return home. Before handing over to the Vietnam Coast Guard, the ship CSB 8021 was completely repainted by the US side with Vietnam’s national emblem and flag; and especially, the US side removed some weapons from the ship. One of the weapons that was removed from the ship by the US, was the high-speed Phalanx artillery batteries used for close-range defense. The Phalanx short-range defensive high-speed artillery system, considered the standard weapon, appears on nearly every American warship. Born in the 80s of the last century, Phalanx high-speed cannon is designed to be able to fire automatically, its target is objects flying at close range, including aircraft, cruise missiles, … of the opponent. The strength of this weapon is that it has an automatic control mechanism, can use pre-installed radar, to follow the target and fire itself, the firing rate of the Phalanx high-speed cannon is up to 4500 rounds. /min – equivalent to about 75 tablets/second. Also one of the very powerful weapons, however, the US side did not remove the OTO Melara 76mm cannon from the CSB 8021 ship before handing it over to Vietnam. Designed by Italy in the 60s of the last century, the 76mm OTO gunboat is still commonly used on many small American and Western warships. One of the most “expensive” features of this gunboat is that it has an extremely fast rate of fire, up to a maximum of 85 rounds per minute – that is, firing twice every 3 seconds. In addition to the fast rate of fire, the OTO 76mm gunboat also has an extremely advanced cannon stabilization mechanism, which allows to accurately fire the target at a distance of over 10 km. The range of this cannon, depending on the type of ammunition, will be able to shoot up to 16 km to a maximum of 40 km with the most modern Vulcano version. For a fast rate of fire of up to 85 rounds per minute, all incoming OTO 76mm ammunition is housed in a rotating magazine with an electrically automatic reloading mechanism. Theoretically, this automatic magazine can hold up to 80 rounds – that is, with the maximum rate of fire, the 76mm Melara cannon can fire all the ammunition in the magazine in less than time. 1 minute. To ensure the ability to operate at high intensity, the OTO 76mm naval gun has a liquid-cooled mechanism, avoiding the temperature of the barrel and the firing mechanism being pushed up too high. This cooling system can use seawater or fresh water depending on different settings. Close-up of automatic ammunition of the OTO Melara 76mm cannon. Image source: USnavy. The “horrifying” rate of fire of the 76mm OTO Melara cannon on the American battleship Source: USnavy.

To ensure the good completion of this mission and the security of the atomic bomb, the 12 pilots were prepared to sacrifice themselves, once their bomber was shot down, they would end up with pistols or cyanide. before falling into enemy hands. To ensure that even if the mission failed, the secrets of the bomber’s bomb bay would not leak out of his mouth. Six bombers have a clear assignment. Two of them are used to detect the enemy’s situation, the other three need to observe weather conditions. The ultimate bombing target was the 82nd bomber. At 2:40 a.m., they began to slow down the runway and take off. The technical expert began to prepare to throw, open the safety device, install the fuse. At 7 a.m., the meteorological observatory sent back a report that the weather in Hiroshima was very good and the most suitable place to throw. Half an hour later, the 82nd bomber began to make the final preparations. Five minutes later, two enemy bomber scouts left early for safety. At 7:50, the bomber officially entered Japanese airspace. At 8:13, the bomber officially flew into Hiroshima, from the bomber, you can even see the buildings in downtown Hiroshima, as well as many small “ants” walking around. Those are the people who get up early and go out to work. At this point, the people of Hiroshima must have seen these bombers, but according to regular bombing drills conducted by the US military in the past, the people were already familiar with it, not not running away, but looking up. At 8:13, Major Ferrabi was also the bombardier on the mission, he found the Aioi Bridge target within range of the bombing, located in downtown Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. 17 seconds, the major opened the door of the bomb compartment, and the “little boy” fell from a height of 10,000m, rushing towards Hiroshima with the sound of demons howling. At the same time, the atomic bomber made a huge turn and flew wildly into a place nearly 90 degrees above the ground. Since it had less than 50 seconds left for it to escape, if it failed to enter the safe zone, Enola Gay would be blown to powder in this huge shock wave. At 8:16 a.m., the detonator detonated, two pieces of uranium 235 immediately merged into one, causing a chain reaction, within 43 seconds, “Death” lowered an altitude of 550 m above Hiroshima. At this time, the people of Hiroshima at the center of the explosion saw a large fireball suddenly rise above the city center, burned to ash by the temperature of more than 6,000 degrees, even to the point of time. Crying and crying can’t help. The bright light blinded thousands of people instantly, and the shockwave following the explosion directly destroyed the entire city. In just a few short seconds, the lives of 70,000 people were taken away by the “god of death”, within a kilometer of the center of the explosion, there was no sign of life, even the buildings were vaporized, dead silence. The fire spread throughout the city, the cries for help echoed throughout the streets, big and small. According to the memories of the survivors of each year, everyone’s facial skin was burned black, hair was no longer there, some people were completely unrecognizable, couldn’t even distinguish which one was the face, which was the head, whose skin was not stripped, hung there, as if cooked. There are also corpses burned to black coals that can be seen everywhere, living people step over corpses, people can’t be people, and demons can’t come out. It is estimated that more than 88,000 Japanese people were killed on the day of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the number of Japanese who died from nuclear radiation after the explosion could be even higher. On August 9, just three days after bombing Hiroshima, the Americans repeated the old trick and dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 86,000 people on the spot. After suffering the effects of two atomic bombs, Japan finally submitted a letter of surrender. In this regard, then-US President Truman said: “Only the sound of nuclear explosions can make the Japanese truly listen to submission.”

Kenya Airways’ aircraft at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. Heartbreaking discovery On the afternoon of June 30, 2019, 31-year-old British software engineer Wil was outside his house in Clapham (southwest London), drinking beer while chatting with a friend, above his head. , the planes were also rushing to Heathrow airport to end their journey. Taking out his phone, Wil shows him an app that tells the user the route and pattern of any passing aircraft. When he saw an airplane passing by, he opened the application to view information, then raised his phone to shade the sun and squinted at the sky. Suddenly, Wil saw something falling from the sky. “At first I thought it was a bag, but after a few seconds, I discovered the object was quite large and fell very quickly,” Mr. Wil said. Wil thinks that the object could be part of the landing gear or the luggage in the cargo hold. However, he suddenly remembered a long-read article about people hiding tickets on planes. Wil does not want to believe in this possibility but cannot deny the object gets closer and closer. “In the final seconds before the object lands, I see limbs. I think it’s a person, ”continued Wil. Shortly thereafter, Wil opened the flight determination application, and his friend called the police to report the news. According to information on the phone application, the plane that has just passed over that area is Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying number KQ 100 of Kenya Airways. The man was dropped from a plane of Kenya Airways 1000m to the ground. After that, Wil drove his motorbike to find where the object fell, and mumbled to pray that he would only see a coat, a bag or something on the ground. When he went to the next route, he met a police car in the opposite direction and decided to follow. The destination is on Offerton Street, 300 meters from Wil’s house. When he arrived, Wil saw John Baldock, a gray-faced man standing dumbfounded outside a house. Looking through the window, Wil noticed that the inner garden was “completely destroyed”. “The first thing I told John was to ask if it was the same person, because I’m still not 100% sure. He said nothing, just looked at me and nodded, making my heart heavy, “Wil said. That man fell from a height of more than 1,000m to the ground. This is an airplane ticket evader. Hard search On the day of the incident, because the London Police Department’s unit in charge of searching for the missing people was overloaded, agent Paul Graves of the voluntary crime unit was in charge of the investigation. As an experienced senior detective, Graves has more than 30 years specializing in handling stabbing, shooting, kidnapping and murder conspiracy. He hopes to soon identify the man “fell from the sky” and return the body. After receiving the report, the police quickly went to Offerton Street, talked with Wil, John and people living in the area, and contacted Heathrow airport. The airport sent staff to inspect the landing gear – the area of ​​the aircraft’s landing gear will retract after takeoff – aboard a Kenyan Airways Boeing. There was barely enough room for one person to hide inside, and after checking in, an old backpack with the initials MCA was found there. The backpack does not contain any important clues, only contains a few pieces of bread, a bottle of soft drink, a bottle of water and a pair of sports shoes. “Food, water and shoes are the definition of survival for that person,” Detective Graves said. However, there was also some Kenyan coins in the backpack and a bottle of Fantamà, according to verification sold at a store in the country, showed that the stowaway was almost certainly on board there. The flight initially departed from Johannesburg, South Africa to Nairobi, Kenya. So the elimination of the possibility of a man getting on a plane from South Africa is a remarkable discovery: At the Lambeth Morgue, pathologists took samples of the man’s DNA and duplicate copies of his fingerprints. hand him and send it to the authorities in Kenya. However, the DNA determination later showed that it did not match anyone in Kenya. Graves hopes that he will have better luck with fingerprints as many problems in Kenya require candidates to have fingerprints. But the smuggler’s fingerprints were also not on the Kenyan police database. The incident meanwhile attracted the attention of public opinion. Because the situation of migrants betting their lives to reach Europe has appeared so often in the newspapers, and this is a completely different thing: an unidentified man, from a country about a third of the population lives on less than $ 2 a day, crashing the bottom of a plane into one of the wealthiest places in London. According to statistics of the US Federal Aviation Administration, from 1947 to February 2020, 128 people around the world tried to smuggle planes in this way. More than 75% of them were killed. The stowaway can fall off the plane during take-off, as in the case of 14-year-old Keith Sapsford falling from a cabin landing a Douglas DC-8 departing from Sydney, Australia for Tokyo, Japan, in January. 2/1970. Even if they survive the take-off, the stowaways can be crushed as they return, as Adonis Guerrero Barrios died in July 2011. The 23-year-old has climbed into the cockpit of the Airbus A340 from Cuba to Madrid, Spain. Even with luck avoiding the above possibilities, those who cling to the plane still face the cargo. Other deadly risk series. For example, within 25 minutes of take-off, most passenger aircraft reach an altitude of nearly 11 km, the outside temperature is approximately -54 degrees Celsius, the air pressure is about 4 times lower than normal, preventing the human lungs from getting enough oxygen from the air, which can cause heart failure and brain death. If the stowaway somehow managed to survive the journey, they would surely lose consciousness once the plane began to descend. Therefore, when the aircraft opens the door to lower the landing gear, usually within 8 km of the runway, they can fall freely. This is why bodies are sometimes found south of London, near Heathrow’s route, as in the case of Pakistani elder Mohammed Ayaz who died from falling from a British Airways flight into a Homebase parking lot. , also in Richmond in June 2001. There are also rare instances where some of the stowaways still survived that scientists have not fully explained these cases. In September 2019, three months after receiving the investigation, Agent Graves flew to Kenya, hoping to find out what details could help identify the mysterious but futile man. Dead end, he decided to use the last resort, thanks to the help and spread of the media, but failed. At the end of 2019, Kenyan officials decided to close the investigation. This is also seen as typical of the tragic cases of migrants. Many of them drowned at sea, were electrocuted in cross-strait tunnels, or assaulted to death by racist mobs. According to the Project Lost Migrants, 10,134 have been killed on the global migration routes since 2014. That might just be the tip of the iceberg.

According to a Hong Kong “Ming Pao” report on April 14, the new “Mainland Hong Kong People’s Groups” sub-sector of the fourth sector has been allocated 27 electoral committee seats, each nominated by 27 Hong Kong SAR government-designated groups. According to the list announced by the Hong Kong government, 11 organizations or nearly 40% of the seats are nominated by the Hong Kong (region) Chamber of Commerce and its branches, and 6 seats are nominated by the Mainland Service Center of the Federation of Trade Unions. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that all newly designated organizations must comply with three principles, including having close ties with the sector, being representative and embodying patriots ruling Hong Kong.

The screenshot of the seat distribution of the Hong Kong Election Commission subsectors is from the official website of the Hong Kong Government

Screenshot of the Hong Kong Election Commission’s Improvement of Hong Kong Electoral System (Consolidated Amendment) Bill

Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said at a press conference introducing the bill that in order to achieve more broad representation and balanced participation in the subsectors of the Election Committee, he hoped that more people would represent the interests of society as a whole. Subsector.

The purpose of improving the electoral system this time is to establish a system for Hong Kong that is in line with the actual situation in Hong Kong and also in line with “one country, two systems”, which can enable Hong Kong to develop more steadily. These principles, in simple terms, have the following three items: close ties, the defined group must have close ties with the subsector, so in order to become a grassroots organization, it must have close ties with grassroots work; the second is to Representativeness depends on how many members there are and how many groups are formed under the federation; the third is whether it reflects the principle of “patriots ruling Hong Kong”.

Carrie Lam’s photo from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government News Network

According to the website of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, the Hong Kong (Region) Chamber of Commerce in China (hereinafter referred to as the “Chamber of Commerce”) was approved by the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (Ministry of Commerce), registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and was formally established in Beijing in 1993 according to its articles of association. The fifth foreign (regional) chamber of commerce established in China after the United States, France, Italy and Japan.

The Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit and non-political social organization that integrates business and social interaction. Since its establishment, the Chamber of Commerce has been serving Hong Kong people and enterprises, promoting economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and the Mainland. Through executive committees, local groups, functional groups and interest groups, it has strengthened the relationship with relevant institutions and enterprises in the Mainland. It also organizes business exchange platforms, organizes cultural and recreational activities, and communicates with chambers of commerce in other countries and regions in China in business, economics and culture.

Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce activity information map from Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce website

According to the Chamber of Commerce’s website, the honorary chairman is the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, former Hong Kong chief executive Liang Zhenying and chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor. The current president is Xiao Huijun, a senior consultant of Beijing Ruisinoah Culture Communication Co., Ltd., who has issued a statement “fully support the patriots in ruling Hong Kong”.

According to Ming Pao, the Chamber of Commerce and the 10 branches of its provinces and cities can each nominate an election committee member, and at least the presidents of the Guangxi, Sichuan and Liaoning branches have public positions in the Mainland.

Among the mainland Hong Kong groups named in the Bill, all advisory service centers or service agencies established in the mainland, including the Federation of Trade Unions, are located in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Huizhou and Xiamen.

According to China News Agency, the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Zeng Guowei, stated on April 2 that Hong Kong people in the Mainland understand that although they are developing in the Mainland, they still care about Hong Kong and hope to contribute to the country and Hong Kong. In this arrangement to improve the electoral system, a subsector of “Representatives of Mainland Hong Kong People’s Groups” has been added to the Election Committee. I hope they can continue to support the improvement of the electoral system and contribute to the development of the country and Hong Kong in the future.

Zeng Guowei also said that the implementation of a sound electoral system will plug loopholes and defects in the electoral system, and build a democratic system with Hong Kong characteristics that meets the actual conditions of Hong Kong and meets the practical requirements of “one country, two systems”, so as to ensure that “patriots govern Hong Kong.” “To be fully implemented, the efficiency of the SAR government’s governance is improved, good governance is achieved, the economy is developed, the people’s livelihood is improved, and some deep-seated problems are solved, so that the “one country, two systems” can be stabilized and the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong can be maintained.

Recently, the Waterway Management Center in coordination with Saigon Traffic Construction Joint Stock Company has operated new technology equipment in the collection of rubbish on the Vam Thuat River, at Ben Phan Bridge (Go Vap District, City). .HCM).

As noted by PV, there are three devices in operation to pick up trash, mainly water hyacinth and floating garbage. A device like a large barge has a garbage storage compartment and a pick-up crane. On both sides of the conveyor belt are fitted with two garbage collection wings, which help to put the garbage on the deck. In addition, the small garbage pick-up machine is operated by one person, moving the garbage and bringing it to the barge.

According to PV’s observations in just a few working hours tons of water hyacinths are collected ashore.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hai, Head of Maintenance Management Division, Waterway Management Center, said that for many years, garbage collection has contributed to reducing the amount of rubbish on the above rivers, gradually improving the regional environment. However, the garbage collection is still rudimentary, using a lot of manual labor, and the efficiency and productivity are not high.

Therefore, the unit has piloted operation of new technology equipment imported from the US. With this new technology, workers do not have to salvage manually but completely control by machine, collecting every two days, the capacity to pick up about 25 to 30 tons within 8 hours.

“This device will save manpower, time and collect large volumes, thereby increasing the economic efficiency of the city. Besides, it will also create a better image on the river compared to traditional garbage collection.” – Mr. Hai said.

Regarding the current difficulties, Mr. Hai added that in addition to floating rubbish and water hyacinths, there are large-sized rubbish such as blankets, mattresses, tables and chairs, making it difficult to collect trash. In addition, the river bank is not straight and flat, so the access of the machine is also difficult.

Mr. Hai added that the garbage collection system consists of five devices, of which two are imported from the US and three are researched and manufactured by a team of Vietnamese engineers. After the pilot period, the Department of Transport will report to the City People’s Committee replicated in the area. At the same time, the unit is also building a unit price that is suitable for management in the future.

Pilot garbage collection with new technology

Previously, on October 9, 2020, the Department of Transport of Ho Chi Minh City held a pilot meeting to collect and collect rubbish on the Vam Thuat – Ben Cat river using modern equipment with new technology.

This equipment is proposed by Saigon Transport Construction Joint Stock Company to use in the spirit of the “Ho Chi Minh City people do not litter the streets and canals because the city is clean and less flooded”.