Weapons

​​ Destiny, Courtney, Tyesha These are some weapons from the veitnam war The first one on the left is an AK 47 and then an M 16, a Cabin and an GA Rang (M1). Veitnameese soilders used some very destructive weapons are used at different times and in or battles the soilders also they use certain guns for certain positions in the war. These guns have to be used by certain people, only people who are trained and now how to work these type of weapons. Some of these guns are used in certain ways that in the battles the opponents wont know whats coming they could use them in a way that the other soilders that theyre battling wont know wahat is going to happen next. It makes them very suspcsious. The KA-BAR knife was the most famous of the war. 1. Edged weapons (Combat knives, bayonet) The KA-BAR knife was the most famous of the war.
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A wide variety of **weapons were used by the different armies operating in the Vietnam War**. Combatants included the opposing armies of both the Republic of South Viet Nam ( ARVN ) ( South Vietnamese Army ); the People’s Army of Vietnam (//PAVN//), commonly known as the North Vietnamese Armys ( NVA ); the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), better known as the Viet Cong ( VC ); all services of the U.S. military; their allies South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Philippine armies; and a variety of irregular troops. Nearly all allied forces including the ARVN and Australians were armed with U.S. weapons, some of which, such as the M1 Carbine, were substitute standard weapons dating from World War II. The NVA, although having inherited a miscellany of American, French, and Japanese weapons from WWII and the First Indochina War (aka French Indochina War ), were largely armed and supplied by Red China, the Soviet Union , and its Warsaw Pact allies. In addition, some weapons—notably anti-personnel explosives, the K-50M (a PPSh-41 variant), and “home-made” versions of the RPG-2 —were manufactured in Vietnam. By 1969 the US Army had identified 40 rifle/carbine types, 22 machine gun types, 17 types of morta​r, 20recoilless rifle or rocket launcher types, 9 types of antitank weapons, and 14 anti-aircraft artillery weapons used by ground troops on all sides. Also in use, primarily by anti-communist forces, were the 24 types of armored vehicles and self propelled artillery, and 26 types of field artillery & rocket launchers.

These are some examples of somethings that are used and how they are used and also it explains how certain things are used and or carried.

**Standard-Issue Equipment **

of the standard-issue U.S. Army infantry equipment proved poorly adapted to jungle and counter-insurgency warfare. Individual soldiers often customized their gear, abandoning some equipment altogether, augmenting it by trading with other GIs, or even using equipment taken from the enemy. 

**Rifle ** The M16 rifle, standard issue for infantrymen, fired .223 caliber/5.56mm bullets at a rate of 750-900 rounds per minute on automatic setting, or as fast as a soldier could pull the trigger on semiautomatic. The rifle had an effective range of about 435 yards. Before a late 1966 redesign, the fussy M16s responded poorly to wet, dirty field conditions, and often jammed during combat, resulting in numerous casualties. M16 cartridges came in 20 or 30-round "clips," which could be quickly popped in and out of the rifle's loading port during firefights. Although the clips added weight to the soldier's gear, the danger of running out of ammunition during a firefight caused many grunts to carried as many clips as they could stand when they went into the field. 

**Mark 2 Anti-Personnel Hand-Rifle Grenade ** Soldiers often carried fragmentation grenades, which could be thrown about 30 yards, or propelled accurately at distances of about 150 yards using a rifle-mounted launcher. Carrying grenades through thick jungle was a hazardous proposition. Fuse pins sometimes could catch on undergrowth and pull from grenades, resulting in unintentional and deadly explosions. 

**M18A1 Claymore Anti-Personnel Mine ** Soldiers frequently used these portable tripod-mounted mines to form a perimeter around a night encampment. When triggered by a tripwire or a manually-operated lanyard, the mine released a charge of 700 steel balls in a 60-degree arc, with an effective range of about 50 yards.

@http://www.history.navy.mil/seairland/index.html This online publication from the U.S. Navy's Naval Historical Center provides a chronological history of the U.S. Navy in Vietnam along with photographs, maps, and charts. @http://www.army.mil/cmh/online/Bookshelves/VN.htm This site from the U.S. Army Center of Military History provides numerous publications on the Army's involvement in the Vietnam War. @http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/ac/vw.htm Examine the aircraft used in Vietnam on this site maintained by the National Museum of the United States Air Force
 * By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia **
 * Online Bookshelves on Vietnam **<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">Vietnam War Aircraft Hangar **<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">

This is a list of the guns that were used in the vietnam war and in the United States, South Vietnam and Veitcong and North Vietnam.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Weapons of the United States and South Vietnam
· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-14 Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-16 Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|CAR-15 Assault Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-1/M-2 Carbine Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-67 Recoilless Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-72 Light Anti-tank Weapon] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-20 Rocket Launcher] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-79 Grenade Launcher] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-203 Grenade Launcher] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|Browning .50 Cal Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|Browning .30 Cal Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-60 Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-3 A-3 Grease Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-1928 Thompson Sub Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-1911 Handgun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|M-36 Handgun]

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Weapons of the Vietcong and North Vietnam
· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|AK-47 Assault Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|Chicom Type-56 Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|Simonov SKS Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|RPD Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|Type-24 Heavy Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|PPSh41 Sub Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|MAT-49 Sub Machine Gun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|RPG-7 Rocket Launcher] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|81 mm Mortar] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|75 mm Recoilless Rifle] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|Tokarev Handgun] · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">[|Makarov Handgun]