The Vietnam War-Episode 20: NVA/VC/PAVN/NLF/Vietminh Semi Auto and Ful Auto Rifles

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@kieranfitz 5 жыл бұрын

So anything that went bang........or BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG

@MikeB128 5 жыл бұрын

Wait until we get to the bolt guns.....

@kieranfitz 5 жыл бұрын

@@MikeB128 I came across a list years ago looking for something airsoft related of everything that was found in weapons caches or after fights. Literally everything. Just about everything other communist countries were producing, German, French, American and British. The brit stuff surprised me.

@marcusizayah Жыл бұрын

Lol even some that may not have gone bang more than a few times 😂 Ever seen the North Vietnamese 1911 clones?? I’d be terrified to fire one of those things

@norwayssmanboi2550 5 жыл бұрын

Is it weird my grandfather told me that the when he was in nam he saw vc and nova with mp 40s

@MickeyD2012 4 жыл бұрын

Seems quite plausible, if the Soviets were handing out Sturmgewehrs, they almost certainly had a few Maschinenpistoles as well.

@ProfessionalPregumin 4 жыл бұрын

That was extremely possible, the Soviets sent a ton of captured former Third Reich weapons down there but mostly K98k rifles

@squirrele.1266 4 жыл бұрын

In a pic I saw a Nva holding a BAR

@adamguthrie8522 4 жыл бұрын

Early US Special Forces and advisers used them as well. Picture duck hunter camo, a bush hat with one side cocked up and an MP40.

@JRiggidy 3 жыл бұрын

Common

@CourtlandMiller1994 4 жыл бұрын

Something of an sks guy here, and just an interesting side note, the north Vietnamese manufactured their own variant of the rifle as well. It’s one of the rarest variants in the western civilian market, but they did. And I believe it had a Russian style blade bayonet rather than the Chinese type 56 spike bayonet. So some of those photographs with bladed sks’s could be North Vietnamese rifles rather than Soviet. For that matter, also very rare to find in the west today are East German and North Korean sks variants, both of which were also used in Vietnam. In fact most if not all examples of those 3 variants we have here in the states are Vietnam bring backs.

@panzerfaust3607 5 жыл бұрын

I've also seen a Romanian AK, in a picture in 1975

@herrmateuss 5 жыл бұрын

Polish Grenade Launching AKs GN wz.1960. Interesting milled AK type weapon used in this conflict.

@Westnile8501 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great video. I'm on warzone using Song and I'm revamping my loadout based on this. Thanks G 💯

@rebeccaback3287 3 жыл бұрын

I have some of these wheapoonds. This is a very interesting video.I like all of your videos! I know a lot about the Vietnam War. I know one of the wheapoonds one of my favorite is the PPSH41. David Back from Menifee county Kentucky. I have been watching your videos for over a year.

@jacobpapke9984 3 жыл бұрын

What's weird is that they got a bunch of old soviet wepons and used them but they didn't use the soviet svt 40 rifle

@marvintiger9631 Жыл бұрын

SVT-40 wasn't really exported, thats why. And from a certain point onwards, 1966/1967, MOST Small Arms were Chinese Copies of Soviet Design, sometimes Copies of US Weapons. Even most heavy support Weapons which were faced in "the South" (South-Vietnam), were Chinese ones. Weapons: LPO-50 Flamethrower Type 54 (Improved Variant of Type 51 which is a Copy of TT-33) K-50M (Vietnamese Edition, based on Chinese Version of Russian PPSh-41, under Licence) Type 50 (PPSh-41 Copy) Type 54 (PPS-43 Copy) Type 53 (Mosin Nagant M44 Carbine Copy) (Bayonet) Mosin Nagant M1891/30 with 3.5×21 PU Scope vz.54 with 2.5×6 Meopta Scope Type 56 (SKS Copy) (Bayonet) Type 56 (AK-47/AKM Hybrid) (Bayonet) Type 53 (DPM Copy) Type 58 (RP-46 Copy) Type 56 (RPD Copy) B-40 (Locally produced RPG-2) B-41 (Locally produced RPG-7) Heavy Weapons: Type 57 7.62x54mmR (SGM Copy) Type 56 75mm Recoilless Rifle (M20 Copy) Type 63 60mm Mortar (M2 Copy) Type 53 82mm Mortar (M-37 / 82-BM-37 Copy) Type 63 107mm Type MRL ZPU-1 14.5x114mm AA/HMG Type 54 12.7x108mm with AA Sight (DShK 38/46 / DShK-M Copy) Type 65 82mm Recoilless Rifle (B-10 Copy) Type 55 120mm Mortar (M1943 Mortar/120-PM-43 Copy) Single-Tube 107mm (Wooden Planks, Copper Wire, Earthen Dugouts) ZU-23-2 23mm AA Type 55 37mm AA with Shield (like the Ones during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu) (61-K Single Barrel Copy) Grenades, Mines, Explosives and Other: Type 67 Stick Grenade (Model 24 Copy) RDG-1 Smoke Grenade Type 3 AT Grenade (RKG-3T Copy) Molotov Cocktail Punji Stick/Punji Stake Trap, other Traps 3 most "annoying" Support from neighbouring States: 130mm M1954/M-46 Field Gun Single-Tube 122mm 9M22M rocket taken from BM-21 Grad MRL Single-Tube 140mm M14-OF rocket taken from BM-14 MRL Greetings and sry for my bad English, German is my Mother Tongue.

@ehlowgovna Жыл бұрын

@@marvintiger9631 Nah bro. Good shit

@BillBraskyy 2 жыл бұрын

11:27 I learned what those were from watching "Platoon"! Lol I've seen it many times, but just this year a few months back I was watching it again (I've been collecting firearms and learning about them in the civilian world since the last time I saw it many years ago, so this time I was paying attention) and I noticed that Elias and Barnes carried the XM's, but when I first noticed it (they each had em slung over the back) my first thought was "they had M4's back then??" So I know the M4 is practically an M16 with some smaller dimensions and changeable stick length; my first couple years in the army I used the M16, and eventually we had the M4, but anyway I googled it and the release dates for the M4 didn't match so then I started googling some different questions and that's when I discovered this neat (and for it's time) very unique weapon. Another thing I noticed was the other lower enlisted didn't have the XM, so I'm assuming that they were limited to leadership, which I can see bc that's how it was when I was lower enlisted with the optics; ACOGs for NCOs, 68s for lower enlisted (idk why, that's just how it was).

@MrRockydee07 5 жыл бұрын

Great videos, Q Do you have any Vietcong Battle flags that thay carried ?

@kevinbooth2043 5 жыл бұрын

Great series

@elisigmon5505 5 жыл бұрын

Great video can you do one on all the body armor of the war

@ethansahin2713 5 жыл бұрын

He has said that he will, there is just so much to cover beforehand.

@MikeB128 5 жыл бұрын

@@ethansahin2713 What he said^ Please be patient.

@elisigmon5505 5 жыл бұрын

Mike B thanks

@MrBioniclefan1 5 жыл бұрын

I have found an M1955 Flak vest on EBAY recently with a hand painted camo on it.

@montanamountainmen6104 4 жыл бұрын

My uncle was with the 4 Trans in VN 70-71. He shot a VC soldier that was carrying a German k98 mauser, thought he was kidding til he showed me the picture.

@roccoreig3711 5 жыл бұрын

Can u do a video about Vietnam war ghillie suits and sniper camouflage I can't find shit

@Charon-5582 2 жыл бұрын

The vz 58... aka the canadian ak.

@McClane4Ever. 2 жыл бұрын

So glad you brought up the M1/M2 carbine. So popular yet left off of most of these types of lists.

@madsdarre356 4 жыл бұрын

I thought the M in AKM was modernized, Ian from forgotten weapons taught me that, maybe he is misinformed?

@JohnnyLouisXIX 3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnsonTheSecond Yeah AK-74M as well, tanks too like T-90M T-72M etc...

@JeffDripstein 5 жыл бұрын

Last rifle looks just like an AVS 36

@slimedookie 5 жыл бұрын

Neat

@ulflyng4072 5 жыл бұрын

I heard NVA startede their own production of m-16s, and delivered to US Army after the war. Best from Loof Slirpa 👍

@MikeB128 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I have some beach front property in Idaho I will sell you..

@cartercavicchio5524 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve got a Thai hooker that’s not a dude and doesn’t have any stds that I’ll sell you

@MrBob2234 3 жыл бұрын

Nobody: Nobody ever: ful auto:

@roccoreig3711 5 жыл бұрын

Just picked up an avis pin🤙

@IGaveUpSecondsAgo 5 жыл бұрын

Where can one be bought?

@roccoreig3711 5 жыл бұрын

@@IGaveUpSecondsAgo ebay

@nam430 4 жыл бұрын

me being a vietnamese but know almost nothing about the vietnam war

@jessicathrasher6526 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that you know nothing means you know everything

@akillerpacman1709 5 жыл бұрын

Where’d they get all the ammo for those captured 3rd Reich weapons anyway? 20 plus years later I’d imagine most of the German made ammo was gone by then. Did they modify them to take Russian or common rounds?

@kgb3559 5 жыл бұрын

A killer Pacman The recent Syrian Civil war has shown huge stockpiles of MP43 /Stg44 be uncovered, ammunition included. Pretty easy to believe the rifles and the ammunition were readily available during the Vietnam War era.

@kevinbooth2043 5 жыл бұрын

Probably through east Germany and captured Soviet surplus, I know they were using stg 44s during the time they kept the ak secret as border weapons at least probably more I've seen east german military of some kind parading with them. That's my guess anyway

@blackore64 5 жыл бұрын

Well, it's not like the Russians actually used those german weapons and the Ammunition. It was all stored, and send as military aid with other equipment. Also Czechoslovakia manufactured 7.92 mauser ammunition.