North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong used many varieties of weapons during the Vietnam War. Various types of WW2 weapons of American, British, Japanese, German and Russian origins were used in large numbers. American soldiers encountered many Viet Congs armed with WW2 German weapons. The Soviets had millions of captured German weapons kept under storage until they were given the North Vietnam and the Viet Congs. They may be 20 to 30 years old but were still deadly and effective. They were rechambered to use Soviet ammunitions as the original ones got used up. The Soviets also supplied both North Vietnam and the Viet Congs their own outdated WW2 weapons.
And for another conflict as interesting as the Vietnam war. The Arab Israeli wars had just as much variety. The Egyptian army had their own copies of various weapons such as Swedish K/45 SMGs (Port Said), M3 Grease Guns (Akaba). the Swedish AG/42 semi auto rifle (the Hakim chambered in 7.92x57 Mauser, and the Rasheed chambered in 7.62x39), the Mosin Nagant (ZG-51) and AKM (Maadi ARM). They were supplied ten times more than the North Vietnamese by the USSR The Jordanian army was a unique blend of WW2 British equipment and American weapons like the M2 Carbines and M1 Garand rifles
Not when you knew what to look for! And, after Tet of '68, they were no longer a credible fighting force, after their North Vietnamese brothers allowed them to sacrifice themselves, did not come to their aid, and American and South Vietnamese forces killed them!
Its hard to find someone WHO Have So huge suport of civilians. In my opinion, the war was Lost by south vietnamese regime which was So brutal there were no way to stabilize the situation even thou US army actually seizes some preaty impressive victories. They were JUST too much hated for these atrocities by civilians...
Yes, the NVA and VC did use the RPG-7 but it's worth noting that they more often used a copy of the RPG-2 designated as the B40. Also, the SKS carbine was used in very large numbers as well.
The cool thing is the Viet Minh and then later the National Liberation Front used weapons of French, Germans, British, US-Americans, Soviets, Chinese, Japanese and domestic Vietnamese productions. K50M, SKS45, M16, Lebel M1895, M60, RPG-2, RPG-7, AK-47, Type 56, Type 1, Type 38 Arisaka, TT33, MG34 and many more!
10% Of the VC and NVA were killed by malaria if you were wounded you died slowly. Yet they never quit that's why they won the war they were willing to put up with any hardship to drive the Americans out.
@@rogerthat4545 yet in 1973 the United States withdrew that's 5 years of breaking the American spirit while being a ineffective fighting force. The NVA went on to invade Cambodia and then also drive the Chinese out of their country. Bottom line the Vietnam War never should have happened the US was sending American boys to die for a corrupt military dictatorship that wasn't communist from a corrupt dictatorship that was. The American people did not want the war the Vietnamese people did not want the war. The only people that did were companies like Bell Aircraft. Kennedy knew Vietnam would be a unwinnable quagmire but he went to Dallas.
You totally left off the SKS Rifle which was literally one of the most common rifles used in the war at that time. You only showed a picture of the rifle mistakenly under Type 56 Mosin-Nagant when talking about the bayonet.
The vietnamese used both the chinese Ak type 56 and the soviet Ak 47. The soviet Ak 47 was undoutebly more reliable and of bette quality than the chinese.
Actually the tests we did on both rifles in NATO test facilities told us the exact opposite. That is why the Chinese rifle was more readily available in the Vietnamese jungle than it's Russian counterpart. It wasn't until the AK-74 that the Soviet weapons were more reliable than the Chinese. When you look at precision it is true that the AK's all were more precise than the Chinese weapons. But as the ambush tactics were about laying down fire as much as possible and not precision the reliability was more important.
A lot is missing in this video. The SKS for example. And the thousands of guns and rifles from all over the world. Even a lot of old german WWII-weapons were used by Viet Cong. Plus all the captured weapons from french, british, australian and mostly american troops. Plus all the strange, sometimes very simple made vietnamese copies of guns.
they got better guns than america m16 1st variant is useless caused heavy casualty Vietnamese army nva had old and new weapons but it still got the job done
You missed out the SKS and also most importantly, the M1 Carbine which, surprisingly, the Viet Congs loved it alot. The Viet Congs got alot of M1 Carbines from the French after they left and they used it extensively across the 1960s. It was light, easy to move around with due to its short length and with a 15rnd magazine, it was enough to do work with it, fire during ambushes and get out. Coupled with the fact that the ARVN forces of that time were using the M2 Carbine which essentially was an M1 Carbine with selective fire and a default 30rnd mag, the VC could pick up ammo from dead ARVN soldiers and utilize everything that they picked up which was a massive perk. SKS or whatever variants that they got, was another rifle that the NVA and VC utilized alot. Despite the length, it made hitting targets beyond 200m easier as its semi automatic thus you in theory can place more shots on target with more accuracy than an incontrollable AK or any of its variant. However, the AK was still preferred but that doesn't mean that the SKS didn't get used alot. ALSO, you got the whole pistol thing wrong. The VC did not get alot of Makarovs but more of the TT-33 instead. The TT-33 was cheaper to make at this point of time and with it still somehow being the standard pistol for most communist bloc countries at this point, it was woefully cheap to make thus everyone made it and heaps were sent to Vietnam from China, North Korea, Russia itself and many Eastern European countries like Yugoslavia and such. Not only that, the shoots just as fine thus many was given to the VC instead and the more expensive Makarov was technically mostly only used by the NVAs until the early 70s that more and more got in then some trickled down to the VCs but more of the VC still used the TT-33 as they used more of the 7.62x25mm Tokarev rounds for their submachine guns like the PpsH and the PPS-43 that they used for ambushes.
@@shaun469 The contentor is not a weapon pro. He mixed up between Type56 (SKS) and Mosin. There is no Mosin with folding bayonet but Type 56 semi auto with folding bayonet.
@@shaun469 nva also used the newest soviet weaponry like: T54-55,PT-76, AT-3 guided anti-tank missile, SA-7 manpad, SAM2, MIG21...the US pulled out because of any prolonged war would cause US citizens to protest against it not because nva was more superior! Infact, I don't think US lost any battle face-to-face with nva.
@@hochoma1564 the us lost many battles in veitnam. They retreated from saigon, and veitnam,laos and Cambodia became communist governments. Id call that losing.
@@FloutchBW many countries make ak copies even the us makes a copy of the ak called arsenal series there is and has been over 40 countries in the world who made their own ak variant
Pretty bland summary. At least go into detail about the weapons used, such as the "AK47." Many Ak varieties where used from Russian, Chinese, Yugoslavian etc.
I know that they had Russian, Chinese, North Korean and Polish AK's but from Yugoslavia I only heard that they sent only their M56's which was just a MP 40 in the Tokarev cartridge
It's not that they preferred it lol, they just couldn't get enough AKMs until 1969 onwards, during Lam Son 719 and the Easter offensive AKMs were used massively along with type 56 and they loved it due to recoil mitigation.
I think you miss the point that most of these weapons still mass produce unitl this day. Same arsenal maybe but mostly new product or old but keep safe in some strategic warehouse. If you familiar with VN military obligation, you will suprise by how much time new recruit soldier have to spend their time and effort to clean and maintain these weapons at its peak condition.
@@trunganguc732 Yeah but the fact is that while in the 60s or 70s they were not so much overpowered by other nations, in terms of small arms, today things have evolved a lot, and the Vietnamese arsenal is still mid cold war period. Should a conflict arise with China for example, this time things will be impossible for Vietnam. Last time it happened, Vietnam and China were pretty much equipped the same way. For a nation that takes a ton of pride about its army, I'm surprised so little gets invested on it.
@@FloutchBW uhhh i think your information quite out of date. VN now able to produce some high tech military equipment. Sreach for Vietel High Tech company you will see some newly develope radar, 3 channel and up to 300km range. VN also equip newly self made anti cruise ship missle (copy of kh35 urane of russian) call vcm-01. Atleast 3 infantry vehicles, 1 in zero series production. An assault rifle production line from Israel and in mass produce since 2017. You can easily find those information, VN military information might blur but in recent year are much clearer.
@@trunganguc732 I know about all of that already, but it's still far from the current standards in richer countries, not to mention that the quality of built of Vietnam made stuffs are... Questionable. I would say this is getting at the level of China in the 90s.
@@FloutchBW thats true, maybe even in China late 80’s. There are many reason to blame but to me, 2 of the biggest reason are VN have considered to be peaceful since late 80’s (after the end of VN-CN conflict and Fulro rebels in Tay Nguyen). Second is that corruption was over the roof in era of 2000-2013 (everthing seems to be better since a new first secretary of VNCP took power in 2013, like CN went XiPing Yi took power).
nva also used the newest soviet weaponry like: T54-55,PT-76, AT-3 guided anti-tank missile, SA-7 manpad, SAM2, many artillery kind 37,57,122,130mm, mortars, MIG21... you are a fool if you believe nva only use primitive weapons!
Those are not top of the line through. T-62 came out and T-64 was coming out. 120 mm mortar is new 😂 SA-2 (?), where do u get that idea? All of those arty had been widely available for decades Mig...17-19 were all present and until way later that NVA got bis version long after it came out
@@huntermad5668 of course nva won't get t64, but their t54, 55 were good and out number, out class the South mostly M41, small number of M48. nva AT-3 was very effective and much cheaper than TOW, SA-7 Strella very deadly against low flying aircrafts...where I got the idea? Well, I lived during it; my Dad, uncles fought in it. Perhaps, I should know it better than you?
It was easier to find sks than kalashnikovs. In fact, most of the kalashnikovs were chinese copy of the real product. They were named type-56 by china. Interesting thing is, chinese considered type-56 to be squad auto weapon rather than assault rifle. Therefore, vietnamese also followed chinese logic and armed each squad with lots ok sks and one or few type-56. So sks was more common.
You forgot: The SKS. Also some of the images you shown were of the SKS and its chinese variants. Instead of the Mosin-Nagant. The RPG-2, which show up way earlier than RPG-7 and was a replacement of the Japanese Lunge Mine. Tokarev. Which is the actual main sidearms. makarov is actually pretty rare. And a bunch of guns from all over the world, inckuding the US M16.
My choice would be the Type 56 you kept showing as an AK-47 for ambush. But if i had to pick a weapon for precision i would pick one of the older French or US rifles.
The man was called Kalashnikov, not Kalishnikov. If you start a video about Cold War weapons by misspelling and mispronouncing the name of the most ubiquitous assault rifle and its creator it doesn't bode well for the rest of the video.
myth #1-" the AK47 was so easy to operate even a child could operate it." Fact it wasn't anymore or less easy to operate than any other fire arm in it's class.
Very hard to say “AK47 better than M16”, During doming Wars. No support form Jimmy Carter Ronal Regan Thai have support form Chaina , Thai special force( like Vietnam sapper) choose AK47 to fight to Vietnam. Thailand win communism rebel win Domino war and we also win L - operation those wars were big support form Soviet Russia.
You forgot the SKS. Far more plentiful in N. Vietnamese service than the AK.
True. The NVA and VC used the SKS more than the AK.
@Gillan1220 not true, NVA used AK more and passed down the SKS to the VC.
People are gonna argue trying to differentiate AK47, AKM, Type56, etc.
They didn't even use the ak that much, they used the Chinese type 1 and type 56
@tryhardairsoft416 it matters though. China was supplying them with their local AK copies aka Type 56. Actual Russian AKs were extremely rare to find
brave people of vietnam defending their country
North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong used many varieties of weapons during the Vietnam War. Various types of WW2 weapons of American, British, Japanese, German and Russian origins were used in large numbers. American soldiers encountered many Viet Congs armed with WW2 German weapons. The Soviets had millions of captured German weapons kept under storage until they were given the North Vietnam and the Viet Congs. They may be 20 to 30 years old but were still deadly and effective. They were rechambered to use Soviet ammunitions as the original ones got used up. The Soviets also supplied both North Vietnam and the Viet Congs their own outdated WW2 weapons.
And for another conflict as interesting as the Vietnam war. The Arab Israeli wars had just as much variety.
The Egyptian army had their own copies of various weapons such as Swedish K/45 SMGs (Port Said), M3 Grease Guns (Akaba). the Swedish AG/42 semi auto rifle (the Hakim chambered in 7.92x57 Mauser, and the Rasheed chambered in 7.62x39), the Mosin Nagant (ZG-51) and AKM (Maadi ARM). They were supplied ten times more than the North Vietnamese by the USSR
The Jordanian army was a unique blend of WW2 British equipment and American weapons like the M2 Carbines and M1 Garand rifles
Vietcong was hard to find in jungle
Not when you knew what to look for! And, after Tet of '68, they were no longer a credible fighting force, after their North Vietnamese brothers allowed them to sacrifice themselves, did not come to their aid, and American and South Vietnamese forces killed them!
Its hard to find someone WHO Have So huge suport of civilians. In my opinion, the war was Lost by south vietnamese regime which was So brutal there were no way to stabilize the situation even thou US army actually seizes some preaty impressive victories. They were JUST too much hated for these atrocities by civilians...
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So was Carlos hathcock. We adapted
Fallout npc comment 😂do you also wish for a nuclear winter
Yes, the NVA and VC did use the RPG-7 but it's worth noting that they more often used a copy of the RPG-2 designated as the B40. Also, the SKS carbine was used in very large numbers as well.
The cool thing is the Viet Minh and then later the National Liberation Front used weapons of French, Germans, British, US-Americans, Soviets, Chinese, Japanese and domestic Vietnamese productions.
K50M, SKS45, M16, Lebel M1895, M60, RPG-2, RPG-7, AK-47, Type 56, Type 1, Type 38 Arisaka, TT33, MG34 and many more!
10% Of the VC and NVA were killed by malaria if you were wounded you died slowly. Yet they never quit that's why they won the war they were willing to put up with any hardship to drive the Americans out.
They never won a single real fight, and after the Tet Offensive ceased to be a functional fighting force
@@rogerthat4545 yet in 1973 the United States withdrew that's 5 years of breaking the American spirit while being a ineffective fighting force. The NVA went on to invade Cambodia and then also drive the Chinese out of their country. Bottom line the Vietnam War never should have happened the US was sending American boys to die for a corrupt military dictatorship that wasn't communist from a corrupt dictatorship that was. The American people did not want the war the Vietnamese people did not want the war. The only people that did were companies like Bell Aircraft. Kennedy knew Vietnam would be a unwinnable quagmire but he went to Dallas.
@@rogerthat4545 what is a "real fight"? The one on the US borders, LOL?
We help Cambodian, not invade.
@@OnkelAdiSuperstar what fight are you referring to?? I'm not aware of any?? 1812??
You totally left off the SKS Rifle which was literally one of the most common rifles used in the war at that time. You only showed a picture of the rifle mistakenly under Type 56 Mosin-Nagant when talking about the bayonet.
The vietnamese used both the chinese Ak type 56 and the soviet Ak 47. The soviet Ak 47 was undoutebly more reliable and of bette quality than the chinese.
It could be argued that the Type 56 was more ubiquitous than the AK-47.
Actually the tests we did on both rifles in NATO test facilities told us the exact opposite. That is why the Chinese rifle was more readily available in the Vietnamese jungle than it's Russian counterpart. It wasn't until the AK-74 that the Soviet weapons were more reliable than the Chinese. When you look at precision it is true that the AK's all were more precise than the Chinese weapons. But as the ambush tactics were about laying down fire as much as possible and not precision the reliability was more important.
OLD WEAPONS WILL REALLY A GOOD COLLECTION
All the AK47 in Vietnam are not Ak47, are all Chinese made type 56. You can tell by the attached bayonet.
It was the RPG-2 or B-40. It had a range of 100 meters and only much later did the RPG-7 see use.
Lo que usaron los Vietnamitas era la norinco tipo 56 una copia de la AK-47 soviética, la norinco tipo 56 tiene una bayoneta plegable en su cañón
Typ 56 bola čínska kópia ruského Ak 47
Good video thanks
this is like someone played battlefield Vietnam, watched some scenes of platoon and then made this video. this is the mcdonalds cheeseburger.
Why isn’t Jane Fonda pictured?
Hanoi Jane!!!
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@@liamharrison5313 only alive because a FMJ bullet ain’t cheap.
Absolutely! hanoi jane and others did a lot of damage to the war efforts! nva did use her and other sympathizers as weapons..
@@hochoma1564 and the NVA was controlled by the Chinese and the Russians.
A lot is missing in this video. The SKS for example. And the thousands of guns and rifles from all over the world. Even a lot of old german WWII-weapons were used by Viet Cong. Plus all the captured weapons from french, british, australian and mostly american troops. Plus all the strange, sometimes very simple made vietnamese copies of guns.
Nice video , thank you for sharing
they got better guns than america m16 1st variant is useless caused heavy casualty
Vietnamese army nva had old and new weapons but it still got the job done
You missed out the SKS and also most importantly, the M1 Carbine which, surprisingly, the Viet Congs loved it alot.
The Viet Congs got alot of M1 Carbines from the French after they left and they used it extensively across the 1960s. It was light, easy to move around with due to its short length and with a 15rnd magazine, it was enough to do work with it, fire during ambushes and get out. Coupled with the fact that the ARVN forces of that time were using the M2 Carbine which essentially was an M1 Carbine with selective fire and a default 30rnd mag, the VC could pick up ammo from dead ARVN soldiers and utilize everything that they picked up which was a massive perk.
SKS or whatever variants that they got, was another rifle that the NVA and VC utilized alot. Despite the length, it made hitting targets beyond 200m easier as its semi automatic thus you in theory can place more shots on target with more accuracy than an incontrollable AK or any of its variant.
However, the AK was still preferred but that doesn't mean that the SKS didn't get used alot.
ALSO, you got the whole pistol thing wrong. The VC did not get alot of Makarovs but more of the TT-33 instead.
The TT-33 was cheaper to make at this point of time and with it still somehow being the standard pistol for most communist bloc countries at this point, it was woefully cheap to make thus everyone made it and heaps were sent to Vietnam from China, North Korea, Russia itself and many Eastern European countries like Yugoslavia and such. Not only that, the shoots just as fine thus many was given to the VC instead and the more expensive Makarov was technically mostly only used by the NVAs until the early 70s that more and more got in then some trickled down to the VCs but more of the VC still used the TT-33 as they used more of the 7.62x25mm Tokarev rounds for their submachine guns like the PpsH and the PPS-43 that they used for ambushes.
The thumbnail is so cursed seeing someone handling the AK from the magazine
its normal for ill trained soldiers even though thats someone from today
you forgot about the French that was involved in this war before the Americans
😂😂😂 Uhm where do you think all them MAT49s came from 😂😂😂
Yeah French ditching us in Vietnam but we saved them in ww2
@@03tarserov64 What? The French loose his Indochina colony, despite the US money and logistical support.
PPSH-41 & PPS m-43 submachineguns, Tokarev and Simonov semiauto rifles, pk machinegun, detrajev light machinegun, maxim machinegun.
The GDR supported the vietcong, and that shows since they were armed with older German equipment from WW2, too.
Sir. How dare you forget the SKS.
9:01 that's an SKS, not a Type 53/M44 Mosin Nagant.
The front picture must be reversed. The ejection port and operating handle( bolt handle) are on the wrong side.
Couple wrong things in this
Ok than set the record straight ,
What is wrong and why
@@bubblegumgun3292mosin naganth even it's Chinese copy did not had a folding bayonet. That's a first.
@@PatrickJoshuaNavalesMosin Nagant M44 has a Side folding bayonet
@@PatrickJoshuaNavalesThe Chinese Type 53 mosin indeed has a side folding bayonet
@@TiliDoll But he shown a Type 56(SKS) -- 9.05 mins and mistaken with folding bayonet is Mosin.
Mosin Naganth did not have a folding bayonet! Come on man!!
They stated it was a soviet copy of the mosin......
Mosin Nagant M44 has a Side folding bayonet
@@shaun469 The contentor is not a weapon pro. He mixed up between Type56 (SKS) and Mosin. There is no Mosin with folding bayonet but Type 56 semi auto with folding bayonet.
Mosin m44 carbine had folding bayonet
Wanna bet? The M44 carbine version had a folding bayonet. I have a Polish version unissued.
Is that an AK or just a Chinese Type 56? 2:20
Type 56, the Soviet AK-47 don't have folding bayonet.
@@Sokol10 Thanks. Just making sure.
Great info about the weapons that they used before, and now they have the Stv assault rifles as their own.
Incredible courage by the north Vietnamese
All of these weapons work very well! Leaving out the SKS is pretty bad, but the rest is good!
Good video
And they use Soviet world War 2 weapons
And the north Vietnamese still won.
Mikhail Kalashnikov 💪
@@shaun469 nva also used the newest soviet weaponry like: T54-55,PT-76, AT-3 guided anti-tank missile, SA-7 manpad, SAM2, MIG21...the US pulled out because of any prolonged war would cause US citizens to protest against it not because nva was more superior! Infact, I don't think US lost any battle face-to-face with nva.
@JasonSpreyer So did the South Vietnamese, they used new but outdated US ww2 surplus.
@@hochoma1564 the us lost many battles in veitnam. They retreated from saigon, and veitnam,laos and Cambodia became communist governments. Id call that losing.
Didn't the Vietnamese use the Chinese type56 instead of the soviet ak47 ?
yes many of the rifles in this video is type 56 the chinese copy of the ak
They used both, even North Korean made ones.
@@FloutchBW many countries make ak copies even the us makes a copy of the ak called arsenal series there is and has been over 40 countries in the world who made their own ak variant
Pretty bland summary. At least go into detail about the weapons used, such as the "AK47." Many Ak varieties where used from Russian, Chinese, Yugoslavian etc.
I know that they had Russian, Chinese, North Korean and Polish AK's but from Yugoslavia I only heard that they sent only their M56's which was just a MP 40 in the Tokarev cartridge
A z Československa tam boli dodávané samopaly VZ 58
@@karolvarga9340 I can't read Czech but yeah they sent the VZ 58 and VZ 52 and I think I read that they sent a CZ 52
@@konyjoseph8731 VZ 58 boli vo Vietname dosť používané. Čudujem sa že nie sú spomenuté v tomto videu.
I fully agree, this video is bs, no research, no details, just ak47 and rpg7
1.AK47 did not come out in 1947 2. thats not a model 47 (incorrect muzzle break)
The NVA perfered the Type 56 AK as the Chinese Type had thicker receivers and were in general even more robust than the Soviet AKM version.
It's not that they preferred it lol, they just couldn't get enough AKMs until 1969 onwards, during Lam Son 719 and the Easter offensive AKMs were used massively along with type 56 and they loved it due to recoil mitigation.
I recommend the video from Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense Weapons of the Vietnam War
Link?
The same thing happened in the Chinese Civil War which also has a variety of weapons.
Funnily, they're still using pretty much the exact same arsenal today. They probably don't even shoot straight anymore lol.
I think you miss the point that most of these weapons still mass produce unitl this day. Same arsenal maybe but mostly new product or old but keep safe in some strategic warehouse. If you familiar with VN military obligation, you will suprise by how much time new recruit soldier have to spend their time and effort to clean and maintain these weapons at its peak condition.
@@trunganguc732 Yeah but the fact is that while in the 60s or 70s they were not so much overpowered by other nations, in terms of small arms, today things have evolved a lot, and the Vietnamese arsenal is still mid cold war period. Should a conflict arise with China for example, this time things will be impossible for Vietnam. Last time it happened, Vietnam and China were pretty much equipped the same way. For a nation that takes a ton of pride about its army, I'm surprised so little gets invested on it.
@@FloutchBW uhhh i think your information quite out of date. VN now able to produce some high tech military equipment. Sreach for Vietel High Tech company you will see some newly develope radar, 3 channel and up to 300km range. VN also equip newly self made anti cruise ship missle (copy of kh35 urane of russian) call vcm-01. Atleast 3 infantry vehicles, 1 in zero series production. An assault rifle production line from Israel and in mass produce since 2017. You can easily find those information, VN military information might blur but in recent year are much clearer.
@@trunganguc732 I know about all of that already, but it's still far from the current standards in richer countries, not to mention that the quality of built of Vietnam made stuffs are... Questionable. I would say this is getting at the level of China in the 90s.
@@FloutchBW thats true, maybe even in China late 80’s. There are many reason to blame but to me, 2 of the biggest reason are VN have considered to be peaceful since late 80’s (after the end of VN-CN conflict and Fulro rebels in Tay Nguyen). Second is that corruption was over the roof in era of 2000-2013 (everthing seems to be better since a new first secretary of VNCP took power in 2013, like CN went XiPing Yi took power).
Vc: Sir, what would you like to have for close combat?
Me: 1 A.k, 1 Rpg, 5 hand grenades and a 12.5 mm Dshk Heavy machine gun...
nva also used the newest soviet weaponry like: T54-55,PT-76, AT-3 guided anti-tank missile, SA-7 manpad, SAM2, many artillery kind 37,57,122,130mm, mortars, MIG21... you are a fool if you believe nva only use primitive weapons!
Quần trọng là số lượng bao nhiêu
Those are not top of the line through.
T-62 came out and T-64 was coming out. 120 mm mortar is new 😂
SA-2 (?), where do u get that idea?
All of those arty had been widely available for decades
Mig...17-19 were all present and until way later that NVA got bis version long after it came out
@@huntermad5668 of course nva won't get t64, but their t54, 55 were good and out number, out class the South mostly M41, small number of M48. nva AT-3 was very effective and much cheaper than TOW, SA-7 Strella very deadly against low flying aircrafts...where I got the idea? Well, I lived during it; my Dad, uncles fought in it. Perhaps, I should know it better than you?
I did not hear your coverage of the SKS, but saw a couple in the photos.
Vietkong okrem iných zbraní používali aj Československé útočné pušky SA vz 58.
I don't believe the Rpg,7 was used in Vietnam. I believe it was the Rpg1 or Rpg2. I think it was developed a bit later.🤔
RPG-7 was designed in 1957 and introduced in 1961, start appear in Vietnam in 1967.
It was easier to find sks than kalashnikovs. In fact, most of the kalashnikovs were chinese copy of the real product. They were named type-56 by china. Interesting thing is, chinese considered type-56 to be squad auto weapon rather than assault rifle. Therefore, vietnamese also followed chinese logic and armed each squad with lots ok sks and one or few type-56. So sks was more common.
You forgot:
The SKS. Also some of the images you shown were of the SKS and its chinese variants. Instead of the Mosin-Nagant.
The RPG-2, which show up way earlier than RPG-7 and was a replacement of the Japanese Lunge Mine.
Tokarev. Which is the actual main sidearms. makarov is actually pretty rare.
And a bunch of guns from all over the world, inckuding the US M16.
I prefer the AK-47.
And the dragunov
Rifle.
9:14 it is an SKS
RPD shoots 7.62x54R, not 7.62x39n ak rounds , it shoots mosin nagant rounds
RPD shoots x39. The PKM shoots x54R.
My bag of rice defeated the Americans who needed a truck of burgers to fight.
My choice would be the Type 56 you kept showing as an AK-47 for ambush. But if i had to pick a weapon for precision i would pick one of the older French or US rifles.
The vc also had a lot of m16s
They didn't use the AK-47 alot they mostly used type 56s and akms
I have a m44 Russian. Brought back from Vietnam
0:53 Haha
Where’s the sks ?
The Vietcong was using the north Korean type 58 ak not the AK 47
Always AK
You put pkm pic instead of the rpd
Amerika keok...😂😂😂😂😂
Moisin nagant was very plentiful
The man was called Kalashnikov, not Kalishnikov. If you start a video about Cold War weapons by misspelling and mispronouncing the name of the most ubiquitous assault rifle and its creator it doesn't bode well for the rest of the video.
I'd choose the AK.
Straight away the thumbnail is inaccurate, original ak47s where not made left handed. So why should I belive what is said on here.
Title of the video shud be: Weapons of Vietnamese that kicked US army out of Vietnam😂
Where are the M1 carbines?
Vietcong is gone before /'mangku-negaran' we were came into..😢
myth #1-" the AK47 was so easy to operate even a child could operate it." Fact it wasn't anymore or less easy to operate than any other fire arm in it's class.
Hmm type 56 assault rifle
Left out the SKS.
We should’ve never been there :(
Where’s the SKS?!!!!? They were more abundant than the AK/Type 56!!!!!:/:/
So aoeme and czrztx
Long life Việt Nam
Soviet is durability. China is just cheap and large quantity
Next is ex agen KGB Viktor Bought how turun into the Merchants in conflict Africa and middle east
SkS?
B40 rockets.
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Woah
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Poor research.
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Ak 47
Decent video if you know nothing about firearms. Pretty bad video if you're knowledgeable on the topic...
They forgot to mention the NVA/VC’s greatest allies: NBC, CBS, ABC.
Very hard to say “AK47 better than M16”, During doming Wars. No support form Jimmy Carter Ronal Regan Thai have support form Chaina , Thai special force( like Vietnam sapper) choose AK47 to fight to Vietnam. Thailand win communism rebel win Domino war and we also win L - operation those wars were big support form Soviet Russia.
Type 56 là khẩu súng có chất lượng tệ nhất trong các phiên bản ak được sử dụng ở chiến tranh Việt Nam
STICK AND STONE AND DRUGS ALOT OF DRUGS