Allied tanks during the Vietnam War were the:
1. M48 Patton tank-90mm gun
2. M551 Sheridan light tank (Armored Airborne Reconnaissance Assault Vehicle) 152mm gun.
3. Australian CENTURION medium tank-84mm gun (20 pounder)
4. M41 Walker Bulldog light tank-76mm gun (used only by the ARVN forces/South Viet Army).
NVA (North Viet Army) armor:
1. T54 or T55 medium tank-100mm gun (Communist Chinese/Soviet supplied)
2. PT76 Amphibious light tank-76mm gun (Communist Chinese/Soviet supplied)
Allied artillery:
1. 105mm, 155mm field guns
2. 60mm, 81mm, 4.2" mortars
3. 90mm & 106mm recoilless rifles
4. 90mm, 8", 155mm, and 175 SPG (Self Propelled Guns)
5. 40mm twin barreled M42 Dusters
6. Six barreled 106mm M50 Ontos
Allied small arms:
1. M14 US Rifle
2. M16 Jungle Rifle
3. Earlier usage consisted of WWII small arms before being replaced by 1 & 2 above.
NVA & VC small arms:
1. WWII small arms
2. SKS semi-automatic carbines (Chinese Communist/Soviet supplied)
3. AK47 Assault Rifles (Chinese Communist/Soviet supplied)
Allied attack jets:
1. All or most equipped with missiles and 20mm cannons (the B-52 bombers were equipped with quad .50 caliber tail gunners): F100 Super Sabre; F101 Voodoo; F102 Delta Dagger; F104 Starfighter; F105 thunderchief; A-1 Skyraider propeller driven dive bomber; A4 Skyhawk; A6 Intruder; A7 Corsair II; F8 Crusader; F4 Phantom II.
2. Helicopters armed with 2.75 inch rockets (unguided) and 7.62mm machine guns: CH13 Sioux; CH34 Choctaw; CH21 Shawnee; CH47 Chinook; UH1 Iroquois (Huey); AH1 Cobra; CH46 Sea Knight; OH-6 Cayuse; OH-58 Kiowa.
3. Riverine boats: Swift Boats-81mm and three .50 caliber machineguns; PBRs .50 caliber machineguns.
4. US Navy Iowa Class battleship USS New Jersey-9 16" guns; Heavy Cruisers-8" guns; Light Cruisers-6" guns; Destroyers-5" guns.
NVAF (North Vietnamese Air Force) jets:
1. MiG17 (Communist Chinese/Soviet Supplied)
2. MiG19 (Supplied only by Communist China)
3. MiG21 (Supplied primarily by the Soviet Union)
The retention of guns on jets.
Its about the Vietnam wars with new guns.
this many: ________ ______ (___ ___) (___ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___) (_______ _______) ___/ \__ (_____/ \____)
Most European nations using the Centurion preferred the 105mm gun, including Israel. However, in Vietnam the Australian Centurion tanks were armed with 20 pounders (84mm).
Guns are banned in VN.. Even toy guns! So you can only get those Nerf guns at a near future.
The US Military is currently using the M-16 A2. It is a newer variation of the M-16 A1, which was introduced during the Vietnam War.
their guns
To the US military world...guns on jets and the validation of the TOW & SAGGER anti-tank systems. All of which were either brought back (the guns on jets) or combat tested in Vietnam.
Monitors, usually equipped with 11" guns; Vietnam Monitors had M49 105mm howitzer guns.
The F22 Raptor would only have smart weapons and no guns on it had not been for the Vietnam war.
first in the civil war and then in vietnam
to stop Communist expansion into Southeast Asia.