During the air war: US aircraft used were: F-100 Supersabre jet fighter, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief, A-1 Skyraider (propeller driven), A-4 Skyhawk, A-6 Intruder (medium attack bomber), A-7 Corsair II, F-4 Phantom, F-8 Crusader, B-57 Canberra Bomber, B-52 Stratofortress Bomber, O-1 Bird Dog Observation airplane, 0-2 Skymaster Observation Airplane, 0V-10 Bronco Observation/attack airplane, C-130 Spectre Gunship, U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird Spy plane. North Vietnamese pilots flew the: MIG-17, MIG-19, MIG-21 jet fighters. North Vietnamese fighter pilots began training in Communist China and the Soviet Union in the late 1950's. See: Mig-17 and Mig-19 Units of the Vietnam War, By Istvan Toperczer, published 2001. Ground units: US used M-48 Patton tanks, M-551 Sheridan tanks, M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers (APC's)/Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles (ACAV's), Gun Trucks (armored cargo trucks with quad .50 caliber machinguns mounted on the rear), 105mm and 155mm towed artillery (field guns), 155mm, 8", and 175mm Self Propelled Guns (artillery), 90mm and 106mm recoilless rifles, M-42 Dusters (twin barreled 40mm cannons), 60mm, 81mm, 4.2 inch mortars, M-72 LAW rockets (Light Anti-armor Weapons, 66mm). M-14 rifle early in the war, M-16 rifle later in the war, .45 pistol, M-60 machingun, M-3 submachingun, claymore anti-personnel mines, M-203 combination rifle/grenade launcher, M-79 grenade launcher (40mm), and hand grenades. US Navy riverine forces (Brown Water Navy): Swift Boats (Patrol Craft Fast-PCF), PBR's (Patrol Boat River), Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boat), Monitors (River Battleships).
The U.S used no nuclear weapons whatsoever on Vietnam.
Fear that the North Vietnamese would obtain nuclear weapons themselves (from Russia or China) and use them on South Vietnam or even on America.
The US did not want to risk a nuclear confrontation with the communist superpowers.
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No nuclear weapons were used in the korean war
Nuclear weapons were not used in the Vietnam War.
Nuclear weapons were not used during the Vietnam war
The U.S used no nuclear weapons whatsoever on Vietnam.
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None. No nuclear weapons were used in Viet Nam.
No, Vietnam was LIMITED to conventional weapons only. A limited war.
The US employed ALL OF IT'S CONVENTIONAL military assets in conventional and unconventional warfare in the Vietnam War. "Atomic" weapons and "Chemical/Biological" weapons were the only assets not used.
They used ak 47 during the war. They used the first ever ones made
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no its not its left battles fields in the Vietnam war
The weapons the US Government provided. In the early years of the war the were furnished WWII era weapons, later, were provided the same mat