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This article is about the weapons used in the Vietnam War, which involved the army of the Republic of South Viet Nam (ARVN) (South Vietnamese Army); the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), commonly known as the North Vietnamese Army (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; the armies of South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the Philippines; and a variety of irregular troops.

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  • Weapons of the Vietnam War
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  • This article is about the weapons used in the Vietnam War, which involved the army of the Republic of South Viet Nam (ARVN) (South Vietnamese Army); the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), commonly known as the North Vietnamese Army (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; the armies of South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the Philippines; and a variety of irregular troops.
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  • This article is about the weapons used in the Vietnam War, which involved the army of the Republic of South Viet Nam (ARVN) (South Vietnamese Army); the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), commonly known as the North Vietnamese Army (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; the armies of South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the Philippines; 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 Australian army employed the 7.62 mm FN FAL under the licence of L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle as their service rifle, with the occasional US M16. The NVA, although having inherited a miscellany of American, French, and Japanese weapons from World War II and the First Indochina War (aka French Indochina War), were largely armed and supplied by the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and its Warsaw Pact allies. In addition, some weapons—notably anti-personnel explosives, the K-50M (a PPSh-41 copy), 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 mortar, 20 recoilless 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.[1]
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