What are Vietnamese Weapons called?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:19 am

Also, Vietnamese armored vehicles, ships, and aircraft. I know they make their own, but I have no idea what naming system they use.

-Username17

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:58 am

Uh, are you asking what they call those stuff in Vietnamese, or are you asking the specific types of weapons they have (which are mostly Soviet-made and should more or less stick with Soviet designations)?

I can supply the latter:

http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/army- ... tnam-6367/

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:18 am

Nah, I'm not looking for the Soviet, Chinese, or British systems that they use or manufacture under license, but for the Vietnamese engineered variants that have Vietnamese names.

-Username17

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:51 am

Ah. Sorry, the Vietnamese don't have a lot of indigenous designs and I'm not very familiar with them. The only ones I've come across are the Vietnamese name for their copy of the RPG-2 rocket launcher, which is the B-40/B-50

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG-2

And the K-50M, which is the Vietnamese variant of the Soviet WW2-era PPSh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-50M#Users

Not very appealing names, I know. And quite possibly just Western designations.

There's a new Vietnamese battle tank they built out of old T-55s, but no word yet on the name. But when it's revealed it will probably be a real name as opposed to just a designation number.

http://www.global-military.com/vietnams ... ading.html