Weapons of the US army
Colt M16A1		Springfield Armoury M14
We called it a plastic gun, as the front handle and the butt were made of modern polymer. It made the rifle quite light. When hitting the target, the 5.56mm calibre bullet was deformed, it ricocheted in the body and left the body with a substantial portion of internal organs. It was a user-friendly and target-unfriendly weapon, its perception depended on which side of the barrel you stood.		Used by an experienced soldier, it was a deadly weapon. Noisy, heavy and ineffective while shooting in long bursts - but those were full compensated by damage and accuracy while switching to a single fire mode. A bullet weighing eleven grams of nickel-covered lead, whizzing in the air at the velocity of 800 metres per second was a heavy argument, hard to refute.
M60		Springfield Armoury M79
During the Vietnam war, soldier would often repeat how much they hated this heavy contraption when they had to carry it through the jungle and how much they loved it when the fire started. Any soldier equipped in this machine gun could lay down barrage fire of hot lead, keeping the foe at bay. We used to call this gun "hog". Why? I have no bloody idea.		Short, handy, single-shot grenade launcher capable of providing entertainment for an entire platoon of enemies. A 40-millimetre bullet covered by a shell of corrugated wire explodes into three hundred pieces of shrapnel, cutting holes in anything placed within a five-metre radius.
Remington M40		Smith and Wesson mod.39
44 inches of deadly accuracy, equipped with the scope. The value of a sniper rifle in the hands of a marksman is immeasurable. We could create a 900-metre death-zone with this rifle. If you find yourself on the wrong end of the barricade, you are a dead man before you even manage to hear the shot.		This weapon was very useful in the jungle. Equipped with a silencer, it allowed to infiltrate the enemy lines without being seen. One of my men made a sharp comment on this weapon: "We need to be civilised! If you want to shoot the rats in your yard, go ahead and shoot. But you don't need to wake the neighbours, do you?
Weapons of the Vietnamese army
Ak47		RPK
This automatic rifle designed by Kalashnikov was a basic equipment of the enemy during the Vietnam war. You could dig ditches, hammer nails and even row with it, and it still functioned.		The communist engineers added a longer barrel wit a bipod, a large cartridge and a new butt to the Kalashnikov, creating a very effective machine gun. Less accurate and handy than the standard Ak47, it retained its reliability and endurance.
PPSh 41		RPG
It was introduced in World War II by the Soviet army, but it was equally effective 25 years later. The cartridge capacity of seventy-one 7.62mm bullets could bore you with constant fire before there was any need to reload. It was an excellent weapon for short and medium-range skirmishes.		A rocket-propelled grenade fired from this launcher was able to destroy a tank from the distance of 300 metres. The Vietnamese made an effective use of it against our helicopters. Sometimes we would borrow it without the owners' consent and used it to destroy bunkers and enemy vehicles.