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  2. Assault Support Patrol Boat - Wikipedia

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    The initial boats were armed with two Mk 48 turrets with either 20 mm cannon or .50 cal machine guns, two single M60 machine guns or Mk 21 machine guns and one Mk 2 Mod 0/1 .50 cal machine gun/81mm mortar in a well in the aft of the boat, but this well was eliminated in later models.

  3. Armored Troop Carrier (LCM) - Wikipedia

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    The Tango's armor, however, generally could not withstand the full force of a B40 HEAT grenade. [1]: 175 Armament on the Tango usually consisted of one 20 mm cannon, two .50-caliber and four .30-caliber machine guns, two Mk 18 grenade launchers and various personal weapons (M16 rifles, shotguns and M79 grenade launchers).

  4. Weapons of the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...

  5. Patrol Boat, River - Wikipedia

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    Patrol Boat, Riverine, or PBR, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hulled patrol boat used in the Vietnam War from March 1966 until 1975. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common craft in the River Patrol Force, Task Force 116, and were used to stop and search river traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon ...

  6. Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV), also known as the Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) in Army and Coast Guard service, was a United States Navy and Army hovercraft used as a patrol boat in marshy and riverine areas during the Vietnam War between 1966 and 1970. Six hovercraft were built, three for the Army and three for the Navy.

  7. 3D printers turn regular guns into machine guns. Feds are ...

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    These small pieces modify guns for rapid-fire and are classified as machine guns themselves. As the $2,500 printers showed, hobbyists and criminals can easily exploit rapidly improving technology ...

  8. Hurricane Aircat - Wikipedia

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    Some crews substituted this gun for the heavier .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB machine gun to increase the boat's firepower, [22]: 27 though the M2HB often proved too powerful for the flimsy vessel. While the gunner fired, the pilot had to pull forward to offset the gun's recoil or risk the boat being blown about or even capsized. [ 23 ]

  9. Monitor (Vietnam War) - Wikipedia

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    They also mounted additional weaponry—a 40mm gun turret forward and an 81mm mortar amidships—and carried four additional sailors to help man those weapons and operate the boat. The 81mm mortar was the only indirect-fire weapon fielded by River Flotilla 1 and, with the assistance of an artillery observer, could hit targets up to 4,000 yards ...