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Weapons of the Vietnam War - Vietnam War - HISTORY.com
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From air power to infantry to chemicals, the weapons used in the Vietnam War were more devastating than those of any previous conflict. United States and South Vietnamese forces relied heavily on their superior air power, including B-52 bombers and other aircraft that dropped thousands of pounds of explosives over North Vietnam and Communist targets in South Vietnam. While U.S. troops and their allies used mainly American-manufactured weapons, Communist forces used weapons manufactured in the Soviet Union and China. In addition to artillery and infantry weapons, both sides utilized a variety of tools to further their war aims, including highly toxic chemical defoliants or herbicides (on the U.S. side) and inventive booby traps using sharpened bamboo sticks or crossbows triggered by tripwires (on the North Vietnamese-Viet Cong side).
Weapons of the Vietnam War - Vietnam War - HISTORY.com
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Thanks for sharing the weapons of the Vietnam War SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL.
The French before us, and the Australians and other who fight alongside us tended to use standardized weapons. We each brought the weapons we thought made sense and adapted tactics over time with those weapons. Airmobile operations required massive number of helicopters. the forward basing also required many helicopters to resupply as well as to lift in artillery.
We built massive bases for air power and resupply operations. We stationed aircraft carriers and cruiser off shore to launch sorties or shell coastal areas periodically.
The NVA used Russian weapons primarily with some ChiCOM weapons since North Vietnam considered Communist China a threat. The Vietcong tended to make do with whatever they could beg, borrow, steal or modify especially in roadside and makeshift bombs.
The French before us, and the Australians and other who fight alongside us tended to use standardized weapons. We each brought the weapons we thought made sense and adapted tactics over time with those weapons. Airmobile operations required massive number of helicopters. the forward basing also required many helicopters to resupply as well as to lift in artillery.
We built massive bases for air power and resupply operations. We stationed aircraft carriers and cruiser off shore to launch sorties or shell coastal areas periodically.
The NVA used Russian weapons primarily with some ChiCOM weapons since North Vietnam considered Communist China a threat. The Vietcong tended to make do with whatever they could beg, borrow, steal or modify especially in roadside and makeshift bombs.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen F. thank you for the well though post with detailed vivid details of its capabilities to include the NVA and the Viet Cong. I appreciate your responses, very-very educational. I tell you if you was teaching a military history class, please include me as a student.-Sweet indeed.
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Best Lab and Area for Experiment, The Battle Field. Human Life is on the Cheap. Sad to say. Never discount simplistic old fashioned weapons.
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