Sino-Vietnam war

galbaldy

Just Hatched
Registered Member
Do you guys have pictures of the Sino-Vietnam war?

In particular, I'm looking for the photo of the soldier who died on a hill carrying a flag.
 

T-U-P

The Punisher
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i remember we had a pic thread on the sino-vietnam war in the old forum (the ezboard one) im sure you can still search for it on google and find it. it's also in the military history section i beblieve. but since it's closed you cant post in it anymore.
 

Mao23

New Member
there are 2 pics of the war in sinodefense u know. one is at the type 56 assualt rifle page and the other is at the type 56 semi. not much but still.
 

patriot

New Member
Anyone know why we don't have better guns than the Vietnames? I mean we had the world's largest weaponry and supplied Vietnam for more than 10 years. But we are actually poorly equipped compared with the Vietnames. How could this be possible?
 

Red Guard

Junior Member
here you go bud.
many like this photo. i odn't...really prefer it that much. and people say the guy died, i don't think so either.....
and i put on extra for you too.

and to patriot.
so you say "we". but you don't sound really like a chinese chinese......
but anyway. the reason we had 'worse' weapons. was because that our method for war was different. our method at the time being people's warfare, and that's in the situation of 1/2 or more land were taken by the enemy, and lots of troops or militias are behind of the enemy lines. therefore, we need rifles that not wasting bullets, and make every single shot counts. that's why we equiped a 12 men squad with 8 type 56 semi rifles, which shoots pretty accurate, 2 type 56 auto rifle for squad leader and vice squad leader, and 1 machine gunner with 1 loader.
but in the jungle we found our firing rate low and couldn't see the enemy and shoot. with viet namese equiped chinese/russian made AK-47s, US made M16s, captured from either american troops or south viet namese army. and some old PPSH, even chinese made type 63 auto rifles.
after the war, actually, at the beginning of the war, the problem was discovered soon, and soldiers throw away 56 semi and picked up captured AK-47 as soon as possible. and all troops were issued 56 auto right after the war.
 

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patriot

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Red Guard said:
here you go bud.
many like this photo. i odn't...really prefer it that much. and people say the guy died, i don't think so either.....
and i put on extra for you too.

and to patriot.
so you say "we". but you don't sound really like a chinese chinese......
but anyway. the reason we had 'worse' weapons. was because that our method for war was different. our method at the time being people's warfare, and that's in the situation of 1/2 or more land were taken by the enemy, and lots of troops or militias are behind of the enemy lines. therefore, we need rifles that not wasting bullets, and make every single shot counts. that's why we equiped a 12 men squad with 8 type 56 semi rifles, which shoots pretty accurate, 2 type 56 auto rifle for squad leader and vice squad leader, and 1 machine gunner with 1 loader.
but in the jungle we found our firing rate low and couldn't see the enemy and shoot. with viet namese equiped chinese/russian made AK-47s, US made M16s, captured from either american troops or south viet namese army. and some old PPSH, even chinese made type 63 auto rifles.
after the war, actually, at the beginning of the war, the problem was discovered soon, and soldiers throw away 56 semi and picked up captured AK-47 as soon as possible. and all troops were issued 56 auto right after the war.

What do you mean i don't sound like Chinese? Chinese?
I don't get why people's war was still popular in China. We used that tactic like 40 years ago out of desperation when we were armed with bamboo sticks and wooden artillaries. In 1979, we should be a whole lot better.
 

Red Guard

Junior Member
i checked out of your info. so you are from texas. so i take you are not a chinese, and i was right. basicly, a chinese chinese (as i refer) would not talk like you do. and i find it strange that you still use "we", put yourself along with chinese chinese. i am not saying you are not chinese, or do not count as chinese. since myself is a canadian chinese, and i hate people don't put me together with chinese sometimes. i just feel strang when you use we.
anyway..................
in 1979, which chairman mao past away in 1976, and 3 years after that, we were in war. during chairman mao's time we believed either the soviets or the americans were going to attack us. so we prepared for whole nuclear war. and we believe after the nuclear war, our national defence will be gone, and all we are left is ourselves and the rifles in our hands. that's why people's warfare were very popular at the time. since we never thought we could beat up our "comrade and brother" and we would be the one to "invade" someone else.
we were powerful indeed. but we did not have the experience of full scale invasion at the time. that's the problem of PLA. all of our training before 1979 were how to protect us from the capitalists and the emperialists. after 1979 and until today, our training more and more changed to how we are goignt o invade others to protect the interests of motherland. for example now, taiwan. that's why the navy and marines are trained for, full scale invasion.
 

patriot

New Member
Looks like you don't know my background very well!!!!

I was born in China in the city of Xi'an. I lived there for almost 8 years. So don't take me as a non-Chinese. I moved to Germany( 3 month), Britain( 2 year) and had been to most of Europe europe for vacations. Then, I moved to the U.S(Texas) and stayed there ever since. I had been back to China for visits many times in about every two years.
 

simonov

New Member
Is it true that PLA only send the second class of troops during the 1979 war?
What artilery tactics they deploy?
What i confuse is VN had BM-21 Grad but why they never use it?
 
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