What Weapons Were Used During The Vietnam War?

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Both sides used a wide variety of devastating weapons during the Vietnam War. The Americans and South Vietnamese used US army weapons including a range of rifles, anti-tank weapons, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, machine guns, sub machine guns, handguns, mortars, howitzers, jet fighters, helicopters, gun ships, bombs and tanks. Some of these weapons dated from World War Two. The Americans also used herbicides - including the notorious Agent Orange - to destroy rice crops in South Vietnam.

On the other side, the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese were employing AK-47 assault rifles, various other rifles, machine guns, heavy machine guns, sub machine guns, rocket launchers, mortars, handguns, jet fighters, helicopters, tanks, landmines and booby traps. They were mainly armed and supplied by their Warsaw Pact allies, though they also inherited American, French and Japanese weapons from earlier stages of the conflict. Some weapons were manufactured in Vietnam itself, notably anti-personnel explosives.
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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Bombers, Bell Huey helicopters ( several versions ), Armalite M-15 and M-16 rifles, M-60 machine-guns, grenades, revolvers, tanks, artillery, jet fighters, mini-guns, napalm, phosphorous and cluster bombs. American Special Forces even found Remington pump-action shotguns very handy in close-quarter jungle conditions.
The Viet Cong were largely a lightly-armed  militia. They were armed mainly  with AK-47's (Russian or Chinese versions  ), assorted rifles ( captured and otherwise ), revolvers, grenades, rocket-propelled grenades ( RPG's ), mortars and land-mines.
The North Vietnamese Army was equipped with all this and more. They had heavy weaponry like tanks and artillery ( supplied by China or Russia ).Their Navy had gunboats.Their Air Force had supersonic Russian-supplied MIG-21's and surface-to-air ( SAM ) missile batteries.

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Its called a ppsh 41 and they used Thompson's and m1 grands/m1 carbine and a browning ass-ult rifle aka bar

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