Number of Russian ships sunk were in the Vietnam war?

Answer 1

The biggest threat to Soviet (Russian) vessels in Vietnam, were in North Vietnam's Haiphong Harbor, which is one of the main reasons US aircraft were not allowed to bomb it during the early war years. It was later bombed, under the Nixon administration, and some Russian (Soviet) vessels may have been damaged or sunk, along with some possible Russian (Soviet) seamen casualties. But since it was the cold war days, that information was almost always covered up. And today, if information does service on the subject; it will not be very accurate...hardly valid...as time and people change over the years, memories fade and begin to exaggerate.

Other than the above, Soviet (Russian) vessels, subs primarily, continued to play cat and mouse games (chasing each other) with US vessels (again, subs mainly) upon the open seas during the cold war.

The only naval wars going on during the Vietnam War; discounting aircraft carrier operations; the battleship USS New Jersey (the only active battleship in the world during that time); heavy and light cruisers, destroyers working the gunline (fire support)...were the Riverine Patrol boats of the US Navy's brown water navy. This coupled with the North Vietnamese Patrol boats that attacked the US Navy's destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy in the Tonkin Gulf in '64. So, other than that mentioned above, the Vietnam War was a riverine war...Swift Boats, PBR's, Monitors, Alpha boats, etc. etc.

North Vietnamese Patrol Boats were often targets of US jet strikes however...one of the very first US POWs was USN Lieutenant Alvarez, while piloting his A4 Skyhawk, was shot down while bombing North Vietnamese Patrol Boats.