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Compact version of QSZ-92-5.8mm. 8-round magazine. Designed for military officers, pilots and special forces. Nonlinear line of sight weapon HD-66 [18] Nonlinear line of sight weapons 9×19mm Parabellum China: It uses the QSZ-92 as the main pistol, and is an equivalent to the Israeli CornerShot. CF-06 [18] Nonlinear line of sight weapons
To meet the threat represented by the Pathet Lao insurgency, the Laotian Armed Forces depended on a small French military training mission (Mission Militaire Française près du Gouvernment Royale du Laos or MMF-GRL), [30] headed by a general officer, an exceptional arrangement permitted under the 1955 Geneva Accords, as well as covert ...
Although the French lost the First Indochina War, they were bound by the 1954 Geneva Agreement to provide the newly independent Kingdom of Laos with a trained military. [1] As part of the Lao military establishment the French raised a paramilitary force, the AD Corps, in 1955. They disbanded it in 1958, only to reconstitute it the following year.
The LPLAAF operates from two main bases, Vientiane and Phonsavan, with another three bases supported by detachments from the main units.Apart from the main military air bases, there are also a number of smaller airports and airfields around the country which are frequently used by the air force and the semi-military airline Lao Airlines.
The Requirements Office of the United States Agency for International Development was staffed by 25 U.S. military retirees, supplemented by Third World technicians. Its brief was to supply skilled personnel for the technical tasks beyond the capabilities of the Lao military; its brief was the management of budget and materiel for an army of 15,000 to 20,000 regular troops.
Together with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the government, the Lao People's Army (LPA) is the third pillar of state machinery, and as such is expected to suppress political and civil unrest and similar national emergencies faced by the government in Vientiane.
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The Military Region 5 Commandos (French: Commandos de la Région Militaire 5), MR 5 Commandos or MR 5 Cdos for short, were an elite military unit and Special Operations force of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (commonly known by its French acronym FAR), which operated during the final phase of the Laotian Civil War from 1969 to 1975.