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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), Army ...
Light machine gun: 7.62×39mm Vietnam: Vietnamese TUL-1 light machine gun used the frame of Chinese Type 56 assault rifle but with stock of an RPK, barrel sights from an RPD and 30-round magazine used on the AK-47/Type 56, there are rare 40-round magazines.
Vietnam War era sniper rifles, US Army XM21 (top) and USMC M40 (bottom) The XM21 Sniper Weapon System was issued to U.S. Army snipers during the Vietnam War, along with a commercially available sniper scope for day use, and a PVS-2 starlight scope for night operations.
Weapons were often dusty, wet, and covered in mud. ... feature is the carrying handle and rear sight assembly on top of the receiver. ... Vietnam: 6,000 M16 and ...
The STL-1A (or also called the STL-A1) [2] rifle is an assault rifle made in Vietnam. As a product of the Z111 Factory, it is wholly an upgrade version for the AKM rifle, but is commonly compared to an AK-103. [3] The rifle is chambered in 7.62x39mm. [3] The prototype of the STL-1A was converted from a 1972-built Soviet AKM rifle. [4]
The sight arrangement on the Stoner 63/63A differs amongst the various configurations. On the belt-fed LMGs, the rear sights are mounted on the top cover. These consist of a folding leaf aperture elevation scale graduated in 100 m increments from 200 to 1,000 m. The rear sight can also be corrected for windage in ¼-mil increments. When the ...
The STV (abbreviation for Vietnamese: Súng Trường Việt Nam, lit. 'Rifle of Vietnam' [2] or Súng Tiểu liên Việt Nam, lit. ' Submachine Guns of Vietnam [3] ' - it should be clarified that Vietnam does not officially adopt and recognize any actual classification and definition for assault rifle, while the majority of internationally-equivalent assault rifles are formally designated as ...
Z1 factory specialized in producing small arms for the Vietnam People's Army during the Vietnam War, and created locally modified firearms for its army, such as the K-50M submachine gun based on the PPSh-41 and MAT-49. One of the weapons to come from the Z111 Factory is the M18, reconditioned since 2010 from XM177E2s seized during the Vietnam War.