The Weapons of the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War

[@armorer94]

You forgot the SKS. Far more plentiful in N. Vietnamese service than the AK.

[@Gillan1220]

True. The NVA and VC used the SKS more than the AK.

[@tony-ud9ci]

​@Gillan1220 not true, NVA used AK more and passed down the SKS to the VC.

[@tryhardairsoft416]

People are gonna argue trying to differentiate AK47, AKM, Type56, etc.

[@rangerman9241]

They didn't even use the ak that much, they used the Chinese type 1 and type 56

[@Gameprojordan]

​@tryhardairsoft416 it matters though. China was supplying them with their local AK copies aka Type 56. Actual Russian AKs were extremely rare to find

[@farhadturabi5354]

brave people of vietnam defending their country

[@MrLantean]

North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong used many varieties of weapons during the Vietnam War. Various types of WW2 weapons of American, British, Japanese, German and Russian origins were used in large numbers. American soldiers encountered many Viet Congs armed with WW2 German weapons. The Soviets had millions of captured German weapons kept under storage until they were given the North Vietnam and the Viet Congs. They may be 20 to 30 years old but were still deadly and effective. They were rechambered to use Soviet ammunitions as the original ones got used up. The Soviets also supplied both North Vietnam and the Viet Congs their own outdated WW2 weapons.

[@OperatorMax1993]

And for another conflict as interesting as the Vietnam war. The Arab Israeli wars had just as much variety. The Egyptian army had their own copies of various weapons such as Swedish K/45 SMGs (Port Said), M3 Grease Guns (Akaba). the Swedish AG/42 semi auto rifle (the Hakim chambered in 7.92x57 Mauser, and the Rasheed chambered in 7.62x39), the Mosin Nagant (ZG-51) and AKM (Maadi ARM). They were supplied ten times more than the North Vietnamese by the USSR The Jordanian army was a unique blend of WW2 British equipment and American weapons like the M2 Carbines and M1 Garand rifles

[@bijurana-ec4lt]

Vietcong was hard to find in jungle

[@markknivila8383]

Not when you knew what to look for! And, after Tet of '68, they were no longer a credible fighting force, after their North Vietnamese brothers allowed them to sacrifice themselves, did not come to their aid, and American and South Vietnamese forces killed them!

[@krystofmraz]

Its hard to find someone WHO Have So huge suport of civilians. In my opinion, the war was Lost by south vietnamese regime which was So brutal there were no way to stabilize the situation even thou US army actually seizes some preaty impressive victories. They were JUST too much hated for these atrocities by civilians...

[@terrenceescarda8951]

❤

[@DaRealVonStauffenberg]

So was Carlos hathcock. We adapted

[@pepperidgefarms1772]

Fallout npc comment 😂do you also wish for a nuclear winter

[@j.peters1222]

Yes, the NVA and VC did use the RPG-7 but it's worth noting that they more often used a copy of the RPG-2 designated as the B40. Also, the SKS carbine was used in very large numbers as well.

[@haraffael7821]

The cool thing is the Viet Minh and then later the National Liberation Front used weapons of French, Germans, British, US-Americans, Soviets, Chinese, Japanese and domestic Vietnamese productions. K50M, SKS45, M16, Lebel M1895, M60, RPG-2, RPG-7, AK-47, Type 56, Type 1, Type 38 Arisaka, TT33, MG34 and many more!

[@havel6060]

The thumbnail is so cursed seeing someone handling the AK from the magazine

[@waz449]

its normal for ill trained soldiers even though thats someone from today

[@juanmar4712]

The vietnamese used both the chinese Ak type 56 and the soviet Ak 47. The soviet Ak 47 was undoutebly more reliable and of bette quality than the chinese.

[@user-hx1jd2pu6d]

It could be argued that the Type 56 was more ubiquitous than the AK-47.

[@josetrinidadrojasreyes6338]

Lo que usaron los Vietnamitas era la norinco tipo 56 una copia de la AK-47 soviética, la norinco tipo 56 tiene una bayoneta plegable en su cañón

[@karolvarga9340]

Typ 56 bola čínska kópia ruského Ak 47

[@eljefemaximo5420]

10% Of the VC and NVA were killed by malaria if you were wounded you died slowly. Yet they never quit that's why they won the war they were willing to put up with any hardship to drive the Americans out.

[@rogerthat4545]

They never won a single real fight, and after the Tet Offensive ceased to be a functional fighting force

[@eljefemaximo5420]

@@rogerthat4545 yet in 1973 the United States withdrew that's 5 years of breaking the American spirit while being a ineffective fighting force. The NVA went on to invade Cambodia and then also drive the Chinese out of their country. Bottom line the Vietnam War never should have happened the US was sending American boys to die for a corrupt military dictatorship that wasn't communist from a corrupt dictatorship that was. The American people did not want the war the Vietnamese people did not want the war. The only people that did were companies like Bell Aircraft. Kennedy knew Vietnam would be a unwinnable quagmire but he went to Dallas.

[@OnkelAdiSuperstar]

@@rogerthat4545 what is a "real fight"? The one on the US borders, LOL?

[@minhtuanluu4362]

We help Cambodian, not invade.

[@rogerthat4545]

@@OnkelAdiSuperstar what fight are you referring to?? I'm not aware of any?? 1812??

[@hafensanger0821]

A lot is missing in this video. The SKS for example. And the thousands of guns and rifles from all over the world. Even a lot of old german WWII-weapons were used by Viet Cong. Plus all the captured weapons from french, british, australian and mostly american troops. Plus all the strange, sometimes very simple made vietnamese copies of guns.

[@NezukoSatoru]

OLD WEAPONS WILL REALLY A GOOD COLLECTION

[@AncestorEmpire1]

Why isn’t Jane Fonda pictured?

[@liamharrison5313]

Hanoi Jane!!!

[@LBrawn]

🤣

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@liamharrison5313 only alive because a FMJ bullet ain’t cheap.

[@hochoma1564]

Absolutely! hanoi jane and others did a lot of damage to the war efforts! nva did use her and other sympathizers as weapons..

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@hochoma1564 and the NVA was controlled by the Chinese and the Russians.

[@PatrickJoshuaNavales]

Mosin Naganth did not have a folding bayonet! Come on man!!

[@shaun469]

They stated it was a soviet copy of the mosin......

[@Sicario48monster]

Mosin Nagant M44 has a Side folding bayonet

[@zenden9]

@@shaun469 The contentor is not a weapon pro. He mixed up between Type56 (SKS) and Mosin. There is no Mosin with folding bayonet but Type 56 semi auto with folding bayonet.

[@raymebrister9535]

Mosin m44 carbine had folding bayonet

[@kevinstrade2752]

Wanna bet? The M44 carbine version had a folding bayonet. I have a Polish version unissued.

[@chubz8969]

this is like someone played battlefield Vietnam, watched some scenes of platoon and then made this video. this is the mcdonalds cheeseburger.

[@MrLolx2u]

You missed out the SKS and also most importantly, the M1 Carbine which, surprisingly, the Viet Congs loved it alot. The Viet Congs got alot of M1 Carbines from the French after they left and they used it extensively across the 1960s. It was light, easy to move around with due to its short length and with a 15rnd magazine, it was enough to do work with it, fire during ambushes and get out. Coupled with the fact that the ARVN forces of that time were using the M2 Carbine which essentially was an M1 Carbine with selective fire and a default 30rnd mag, the VC could pick up ammo from dead ARVN soldiers and utilize everything that they picked up which was a massive perk. SKS or whatever variants that they got, was another rifle that the NVA and VC utilized alot. Despite the length, it made hitting targets beyond 200m easier as its semi automatic thus you in theory can place more shots on target with more accuracy than an incontrollable AK or any of its variant. However, the AK was still preferred but that doesn't mean that the SKS didn't get used alot. ALSO, you got the whole pistol thing wrong. The VC did not get alot of Makarovs but more of the TT-33 instead. The TT-33 was cheaper to make at this point of time and with it still somehow being the standard pistol for most communist bloc countries at this point, it was woefully cheap to make thus everyone made it and heaps were sent to Vietnam from China, North Korea, Russia itself and many Eastern European countries like Yugoslavia and such. Not only that, the shoots just as fine thus many was given to the VC instead and the more expensive Makarov was technically mostly only used by the NVAs until the early 70s that more and more got in then some trickled down to the VCs but more of the VC still used the TT-33 as they used more of the 7.62x25mm Tokarev rounds for their submachine guns like the PpsH and the PPS-43 that they used for ambushes.

[@tompayton6778]

you forgot about the French that was involved in this war before the Americans

[@bronsonperich9430]

😂😂😂 Uhm where do you think all them MAT49s came from 😂😂😂

[@03tarserov64]

Yeah French ditching us in Vietnam but we saved them in ww2

[@citizenVader]

The GDR supported the vietcong, and that shows since they were armed with older German equipment from WW2, too.

[@-RONNIE]

Good video thanks

[@patwaters3486]

It was the RPG-2 or B-40. It had a range of 100 meters and only much later did the RPG-7 see use.

[@mikemilk2653]

PPSH-41 & PPS m-43 submachineguns, Tokarev and Simonov semiauto rifles, pk machinegun, detrajev light machinegun, maxim machinegun.

[@kevinstrade2752]

The NVA perfered the Type 56 AK as the Chinese Type had thicker receivers and were in general even more robust than the Soviet AKM version.

[@dobridjordje]

It's not that they preferred it lol, they just couldn't get enough AKMs until 1969 onwards, during Lam Son 719 and the Easter offensive AKMs were used massively along with type 56 and they loved it due to recoil mitigation.

[@taotao98103]

All the AK47 in Vietnam are not Ak47, are all Chinese made type 56. You can tell by the attached bayonet.

[@CARL_093]

they got better guns than america m16 1st variant is useless caused heavy casualty Vietnamese army nva had old and new weapons but it still got the job done

[@josephesquivel4066]

You totally left off the SKS Rifle which was literally one of the most common rifles used in the war at that time. You only showed a picture of the rifle mistakenly under Type 56 Mosin-Nagant when talking about the bayonet.

[@mitchellhowarth6402]

Couple wrong things in this

[@bubblegumgun3292]

Ok than set the record straight , What is wrong and why

[@PatrickJoshuaNavales]

​@@bubblegumgun3292mosin naganth even it's Chinese copy did not had a folding bayonet. That's a first.

[@Sicario48monster]

​@@PatrickJoshuaNavalesMosin Nagant M44 has a Side folding bayonet

[@user-qg2xx6qh4e]

​@@PatrickJoshuaNavalesThe Chinese Type 53 mosin indeed has a side folding bayonet

[@zenden9]

@@user-qg2xx6qh4e But he shown a Type 56(SKS) -- 9.05 mins and mistaken with folding bayonet is Mosin.

[@AweShiyte]

9:01 that's an SKS, not a Type 53/M44 Mosin Nagant.

[@710jay7]

1.AK47 did not come out in 1947 2. thats not a model 47 (incorrect muzzle break)

[@karolvarga9340]

Vietkong okrem iných zbraní používali aj Československé útočné pušky SA vz 58.

[@jtbheflin]

The front picture must be reversed. The ejection port and operating handle( bolt handle) are on the wrong side.

[@JasonSpreyer]

And they use Soviet world War 2 weapons

[@shaun469]

And the north Vietnamese still won.

[@R3TR0J4N]

Mikhail Kalashnikov 💪

[@hochoma1564]

​@@shaun469 nva also used the newest soviet weaponry like: T54-55,PT-76, AT-3 guided anti-tank missile, SA-7 manpad, SAM2, MIG21...the US pulled out because of any prolonged war would cause US citizens to protest against it not because nva was more superior! Infact, I don't think US lost any battle face-to-face with nva.

[@hochoma1564]

@JasonSpreyer So did the South Vietnamese, they used new but outdated US ww2 surplus.

[@shaun469]

@@hochoma1564 the us lost many battles in veitnam. They retreated from saigon, and veitnam,laos and Cambodia became communist governments. Id call that losing.

[@SteveBrownRocks2023]

All of these weapons work very well! Leaving out the SKS is pretty bad, but the rest is good!

[@hochoma1564]

nva also used the newest soviet weaponry like: T54-55,PT-76, AT-3 guided anti-tank missile, SA-7 manpad, SAM2, many artillery kind 37,57,122,130mm, mortars, MIG21... you are a fool if you believe nva only use primitive weapons!

[@xuanhieutranpham4098]

Quần trọng là số lượng bao nhiêu

[@huntermad5668]

Those are not top of the line through. T-62 came out and T-64 was coming out. 120 mm mortar is new 😂 SA-2 (?), where do u get that idea? All of those arty had been widely available for decades Mig...17-19 were all present and until way later that NVA got bis version long after it came out

[@hochoma1564]

@@huntermad5668 of course nva won't get t64, but their t54, 55 were good and out number, out class the South mostly M41, small number of M48. nva AT-3 was very effective and much cheaper than TOW, SA-7 Strella very deadly against low flying aircrafts...where I got the idea? Well, I lived during it; my Dad, uncles fought in it. Perhaps, I should know it better than you?

[@bernardjones9779]

I prefer the AK-47. And the dragunov Rifle.

[@Gillan1220]

The same thing happened in the Chinese Civil War which also has a variety of weapons.

[@HistoriAI-2024]

Nice video , thank you for sharing

[@yourenemy2690]

Vc: Sir, what would you like to have for close combat? Me: 1 A.k, 1 Rpg, 5 hand grenades and a 12.5 mm Dshk Heavy machine gun...

[@TheThridwolf]

RPD shoots 7.62x54R, not 7.62x39n ak rounds , it shoots mosin nagant rounds

[@r.3367]

Pretty bland summary. At least go into detail about the weapons used, such as the "AK47." Many Ak varieties where used from Russian, Chinese, Yugoslavian etc.

[@konyjoseph8731]

I know that they had Russian, Chinese, North Korean and Polish AK's but from Yugoslavia I only heard that they sent only their M56's which was just a MP 40 in the Tokarev cartridge

[@karolvarga9340]

A z Československa tam boli dodávané samopaly VZ 58

[@konyjoseph8731]

@@karolvarga9340 I can't read Czech but yeah they sent the VZ 58 and VZ 52 and I think I read that they sent a CZ 52

[@karolvarga9340]

@@konyjoseph8731 VZ 58 boli vo Vietname dosť používané. Čudujem sa že nie sú spomenuté v tomto videu.

[@NpcFromEst]

I fully agree, this video is bs, no research, no details, just ak47 and rpg7

[@huskaroar6869]

Didn't the Vietnamese use the Chinese type56 instead of the soviet ak47 ?

[@simongota17]

yes many of the rifles in this video is type 56 the chinese copy of the ak

[@FloutchBW]

They used both, even North Korean made ones.

[@simongota17]

@@FloutchBW many countries make ak copies even the us makes a copy of the ak called arsenal series there is and has been over 40 countries in the world who made their own ak variant

[@Sicario48monster]

I recommend the video from Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense Weapons of the Vietnam War

[@user-qg2xx6qh4e]

Link?

[@FloutchBW]

Funnily, they're still using pretty much the exact same arsenal today. They probably don't even shoot straight anymore lol.

[@trunganguc732]

I think you miss the point that most of these weapons still mass produce unitl this day. Same arsenal maybe but mostly new product or old but keep safe in some strategic warehouse. If you familiar with VN military obligation, you will suprise by how much time new recruit soldier have to spend their time and effort to clean and maintain these weapons at its peak condition.

[@FloutchBW]

@@trunganguc732 Yeah but the fact is that while in the 60s or 70s they were not so much overpowered by other nations, in terms of small arms, today things have evolved a lot, and the Vietnamese arsenal is still mid cold war period. Should a conflict arise with China for example, this time things will be impossible for Vietnam. Last time it happened, Vietnam and China were pretty much equipped the same way. For a nation that takes a ton of pride about its army, I'm surprised so little gets invested on it.

[@trunganguc732]

@@FloutchBW uhhh i think your information quite out of date. VN now able to produce some high tech military equipment. Sreach for Vietel High Tech company you will see some newly develope radar, 3 channel and up to 300km range. VN also equip newly self made anti cruise ship missle (copy of kh35 urane of russian) call vcm-01. Atleast 3 infantry vehicles, 1 in zero series production. An assault rifle production line from Israel and in mass produce since 2017. You can easily find those information, VN military information might blur but in recent year are much clearer.

[@FloutchBW]

@@trunganguc732 I know about all of that already, but it's still far from the current standards in richer countries, not to mention that the quality of built of Vietnam made stuffs are... Questionable. I would say this is getting at the level of China in the 90s.

[@trunganguc732]

@@FloutchBW thats true, maybe even in China late 80’s. There are many reason to blame but to me, 2 of the biggest reason are VN have considered to be peaceful since late 80’s (after the end of VN-CN conflict and Fulro rebels in Tay Nguyen). Second is that corruption was over the roof in era of 2000-2013 (everthing seems to be better since a new first secretary of VNCP took power in 2013, like CN went XiPing Yi took power).

[@DK-pb7tr]

Incredible courage by the north Vietnamese

[@tonycolca2241]

The vc also had a lot of m16s

[@BDProductions_1]

0:40 nobody gonna talk about the finger on the trigger?

[@catch40507]

Sir. How dare you forget the SKS.

[@blueviper3861]

The Vietcong was using the north Korean type 58 ak not the AK 47

[@brealistic3542]

I don't believe the Rpg,7 was used in Vietnam. I believe it was the Rpg1 or Rpg2. I think it was developed a bit later.🤔

[@rpk321]

You forgot: The SKS. Also some of the images you shown were of the SKS and its chinese variants. Instead of the Mosin-Nagant. The RPG-2, which show up way earlier than RPG-7 and was a replacement of the Japanese Lunge Mine. Tokarev. Which is the actual main sidearms. makarov is actually pretty rare. And a bunch of guns from all over the world, inckuding the US M16.

[@varvoom]

My bag of rice defeated the Americans who needed a truck of burgers to fight.

[@rajasekhe]

9:14 it is an SKS

[@waz449]

They didn't use the AK-47 alot they mostly used type 56s and akms

[@johnnywilson7799]

Good video

[@perrytheplatypus199]

Always AK

[@BDProductions_1]

Is that an AK or just a Chinese Type 56? 2:20

[@ThePressurizer]

The man was called Kalashnikov, not Kalishnikov. If you start a video about Cold War weapons by misspelling and mispronouncing the name of the most ubiquitous assault rifle and its creator it doesn't bode well for the rest of the video.

[@garryli2030]

Soviet is durability. China is just cheap and large quantity

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Vietcong is gone before /'mangku-negaran' we were came into..😢

[@nathanielerskine1875]

I'd choose the AK.

[@LiannY72]

Title of the video shud be: Weapons of Vietnamese that kicked US army out of Vietnam😂

[@sgt_slobber.7628]

Where’s the SKS?!!!!? They were more abundant than the AK/Type 56!!!!!:/:/

[@willpatch4234]

We should’ve never been there :(

[@kbm-zw5jd]

Where are the M1 carbines?

[@jethrobodreaux5261]

Hmm type 56 assault rifle

[@johaneslerius9074]

Next is ex agen KGB Viktor Bought how turun into the Merchants in conflict Africa and middle east

[@danielandjenny9]

Where’s the sks ?

[@RCHolwell]

Left out the SKS.

[@asepsyamsudhin1651]

Amerika keok...😂😂😂😂😂

[@LBrawn]

myth #1-" the AK47 was so easy to operate even a child could operate it." Fact it wasn't anymore or less easy to operate than any other fire arm in it's class.

[@dillonc3957]

You put pkm pic instead of the rpd

[@charliemcternan8190]

So aoeme and czrztx

[@Phansg2024]

Long life Việt Nam

[@jethrobodreaux5261]

B40 rockets.

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Woah

[@horsthumbug1612]

Poor research.

[@hanzohattori5908]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@henryng9406]

SkS?

[@Mariomasio]

Ak 47

[@user-tc1by7un3k]

❤

[@HengYou-jm8kt]

😢..😂..😅..។

[@dalefincher9810]

They forgot to mention the NVA/VC’s greatest allies: NBC, CBS, ABC.

[@oothadapaxdeepong8973]

Very hard to say “AK47 better than M16”, During doming Wars. No support form Jimmy Carter Ronal Regan Thai have support form Chaina , Thai special force( like Vietnam sapper) choose AK47 to fight to Vietnam. Thailand win communism rebel win Domino war and we also win L - operation those wars were big support form Soviet Russia.

[@khiemnguyen7911]

Type 56 là khẩu súng có chất lượng tệ nhất trong các phiên bản ak được sử dụng ở chiến tranh Việt Nam

[@michaelpiwcewicz1412]

STICK AND STONE AND DRUGS ALOT OF DRUGS

[@real514]

Decent video if you know nothing about firearms. Pretty bad video if you're knowledgeable on the topic...