What small arms would you have used in Vietnam? - Page 1

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Posted: 7/9/2018 12:10:15 PM EDT

I have been watching a lot of very interesting Veteran's Project interviews on you tube lately. It kind of seems like you could kind of decide amongst yourselves who had what weapon.

I watched this mans interview: https://youtu.be/tdUpzpIjJLg

He tried and used just about everything it seems. He used LAWs to knock down trees for LZs and stuff. He said the best setup was an M60 with a door gunner barrel. He removed the bipod and did some other stuff. He never let people carry ammo pancho villa style because the Ammon would get misaligned in the links and cause jams.

Seems like the M-60 was awesome if you set it up right and took care of it. But I guess the Stoner would have been better?

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:12:28 PM EDT

[#1]

Small nuclear devices

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:14:06 PM EDT

[#2]

Armalite AR15

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:14:52 PM EDT

[#3]

Clean, well maintained ones. MI carbines and BARs in the hands of proficient riflemen would have been adequate. The weapons were pretty irrelevant when you consider they were fielded by poorly trained draftees in most cases.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:16:49 PM EDT

[#4]

Considering the rather close range of fighting, I would say something like a PPSh-41 actually, or one of those old M2 carbine automatics, was the MP5 around yet?

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:17:19 PM EDT

[#5]

M2 carbine and lots of ammo

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:18:37 PM EDT

[#6]

I'd be plenty happy with an M16, or better one of the shortened XM177s if I could get one.

As long as its kept clean, they worked fine and a much better weapon than SMGs, M1 Carbines, etc.

M60 is too heavy I think.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:21:34 PM EDT

[#7]

sw76 or a Swedish k

M60 if I had a trained monkey or donkey for carrying ammo

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:21:35 PM EDT

[#8]

Something in 30-06 like a M1 Garand or BAR and 1911. They both won two world wars so a little jungle skirmish should be no problem for them.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:21:48 PM EDT

[#9]

M16 or xm177 would be my first choices. If I had to carry a belt feeder m60 hands down.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:26:06 PM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:27:50 PM EDT

[#11]

Stoner 63a...

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:28:19 PM EDT

[#12]

M79 m16 and 1911...

Eta: just like dear old dad...

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:29:11 PM EDT

[#13]

Full Auto 30 Carbine

M2 Carbine Full Auto Machine Gun USGI 30 Caliber - M1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM4xlYhQ_Jo

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:29:47 PM EDT

[#14]

Smith 38 specials, one in every pocket.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:30:22 PM EDT

[#15]

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No problem as long as you didn't have to hump it in 100 degree jungle and 95 % humidity. Too fucking heavy.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:36:34 PM EDT

[#16]

MP-5 in 10 mm.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:41:03 PM EDT

[#17]

V-40 Mini-Grenades.

Cases & cases!

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:43:53 PM EDT

[#18]

Plain vanilla M1 carbine. Browning Hi Power.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:44:16 PM EDT

[#19]

I'd use an AK, 'cause it could take their ammo and ours, so I'd never have to worry about running out.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:44:21 PM EDT

[#20]

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M16 or xm177 would be my first choices. If I had to carry a belt feeder m60 hands down.

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^xm177 for me

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:45:43 PM EDT

[#21]

If I had a steady supply of ammo/mags, honestly, an AK

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:45:53 PM EDT

[#22]

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Do people actually believe this crap, or does it just sound cool to them?

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:45:59 PM EDT

[#23]

M16A1, and a 1911.

A Suomi KP-31 with drums would be a good choice, and a Stoner 63A would be good too.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:46:35 PM EDT

[#24]

Xm177.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:47:22 PM EDT

[#25]

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Do people actually believe this crap, or does it just sound cool to them?

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Something in 30-06 like a M1 Garand or BAR and 1911. They both won two world wars so a little jungle skirmish should be no problem for them.

Do people actually believe this crap, or does it just sound cool to them?

The former.

Realistically, I hope he's being facetious.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:49:19 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/9/2018 12:49:45 PM EDT

[#27]

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Considering the rather close range of fighting, I would say something like a PPSh-41 actually, or one of those old M2 carbine automatics, was the MP5 around yet?

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@LittlePony

At the end... developed mid/late 60's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:52:23 PM EDT

[#28]

444 Marlin if I was "Mad Dog" Shriver

12.5" 6.8 SPCII with gold dots, suppressed and with modern small footprint NVD-Thermal

G20

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:52:25 PM EDT

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@LittlePony

At the end... developed mid/late 60's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5

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Danm

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:56:18 PM EDT

[#30]

M-16. It is lightweight and good for traveling on foot in the jungles.
Considering the way the war was run, I don't think a change in small arms would have changed the outcome.

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:56:47 PM EDT

[#31]

H&R T223

Posted: 7/9/2018 12:57:21 PM EDT

[#32]

Raptor Arms

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:12:04 PM EDT

[#33]

A double barrel shotgun. Let a blast into the sky and scare the bad guys away!

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:12:31 PM EDT

[#34]

870

12 gauge kills trees and everything on either side.

eta - lost first shotgun by 27 SECONDS

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:22:14 PM EDT

[#35]

M16A1, MG3(MG42), BHP,

There were so many good sub-machine guns in 9mm at the time, it would be a toss up.

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:25:55 PM EDT

[#36]

AKM

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:27:06 PM EDT

[#37]

My uncle loved his thompson while a marine there.

not him

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Posted: 7/9/2018 1:27:18 PM EDT

[#38]

Chopped up RPD

1911 for when changing belts

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:28:33 PM EDT

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Full Auto 30 Carbine

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Dad carried one in Korea. He liked it just fine.

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:28:34 PM EDT

[#40]

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Posted: 7/9/2018 1:29:13 PM EDT

[#41]

something with a short OAL for walking around that shithole jungle

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:32:21 PM EDT

[#42]

I'd definitely need some condoms.

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:40:29 PM EDT

[#43]

HK33

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:46:04 PM EDT

[#44]

Does napalm count as a small arm? What if it's just a little bit if napalm?

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:47:00 PM EDT

[#45]

Pretty much anything rather than a M16.

One vet I know said he mostly used a M2 carbine in para configuration.....The was a M-48 tank driver so it made some sense. They also used M3 sub-guns.

Overton was given a contract to convert old-stock WW-2 era para stocks to M2 configuration in the early 60s for use by SV Army/US advisers.

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:49:03 PM EDT

[#46]

I'll have a Carl Gustav M/45 aka: the ‘Swedish K’ on Rye and a BHP on the side with ketchup.
Sure hope that I don't get foo gas with that.........

Posted: 7/9/2018 1:55:04 PM EDT

[#47]

The same ones they had, except better?

So...the right ammo and twist rate for the M16, refinements to the Stoner system, whatever they did in recent years to make the E4 version of the M60...those kinds of things.

Are we talking strictly period weapons? Because it would have been really nice to have pmags or lancers or other polymer mags back then...