The People's Army of Vietnam was founded on December 22, 1944 as the Armed Propaganda Brigade for the Liberation of Vietnam, a tiny founding force of just 34 personnel led by Vo Nguyen Giap under the direction of Ho Chi Minh, and was formally renamed Quan doi Nhan dan Viet Nam, the People's Army of Vietnam, in 1954 under a guiding principle of serving as a force from, for and in service of the Vietnamese people. As the Viet Minh, the young army defeated French colonial forces at the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, ending eighty-three years of French colonial rule in Indochina, and as the North Vietnamese Army it went on to fight the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975, conducting major operations including the 1968 Tet Offensive and finally capturing Saigon on April 30, 1975 to unify the country under Communist rule. General Vo Nguyen Giap, who became the army's first full general in 1948, remained its preeminent commander across both the French and American-era wars, and after 1975 the People's Army continued to fight in border clashes with China and in military operations in Cambodia and Laos through 1991. Today the People's Army functions as Vietnam's unified national military rather than one service among several, organized under the Communist Party's Central Military Commission into Ground Force, Navy, Air Defence-Air Force, Border Guard and Coast Guard branches alongside specialized artillery and cyber commands.
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The Vietnam People's Army intervened in the 1967-1975 Cambodian Civil War against Lon Nol's government forces
The Vietnam People's Army intervened extensively on the Pathet Lao side of the 1959-1975 Laotian Civil War
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is the national military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the armed wing of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)
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the national military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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December 22, 1944
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MilitaryFactory.com: IWI Galil ACE
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Vietnam
Wikipedia: CZ 82
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Vietnam: The 9×18mm Makarov model of CZ 83 was imported in the 1980s, and now still in use with People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnam People's Public Security.
Wikipedia: STV rifle
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Wikipedia: OSV-96
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Vietnam: Used by the Vietnamese military, manufactured by the Z111 Factory as the SBT-12.7 (unlicensed copy).
Wikipedia: Cadillac Gage Commando
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Vietnam: Unknown numbers in service, upgraded by the Military Mechanical Engineering Institute with assistance from Z751 factory to replace old and worn out parts after Vietnam was reunified, with American-made weapons replaced with Russian-based weapons, acquired through capturing them in the Vietnam War.
Wikipedia: CZ 805 BREN
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Vietnam: CZ 805 BREN A1 and CZ 805 BREN A2 are in use by the Vietnamese Military Marksman Demonstration Team.
MilitaryFactory.com: 2S1 Gvozdika (M1974)
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MilitaryFactory.com: 2S3 Akatsiya (SO-152) / (M1973)
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MilitaryFactory.com: KS-23
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[ North Korea; North Vietnam; Russia; Soviet Union; Vietnam ]
MilitaryFactory.com: SPG-9 Kopye (Spear)
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[ Afghanistan; Armenia; Belarus; Bulgaria; China; Cuba; Egypt; Georgia; Hungary; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Libya; Moldova; Mongolia; Morocco; Nepal; North Korea; Pakistan; Poland; Romania; Soviet Union; Sudan; Syria; Ukraine; Vietnam ]
MilitaryFactory.com: BTR-60
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MilitaryFactory.com: Type 58
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MilitaryFactory.com: FEG AMD-65
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MilitaryFactory.com: ORSIS T-5000
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[ China; Iraq; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Syria; Ukraine (captured); Vietnam ]
MilitaryFactory.com: SA-10 (Grumble) / S-300
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MilitaryFactory.com: Milkor MGL Y2
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MilitaryFactory.com: RPG-2
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MilitaryFactory.com: MAS 49 (Fusil Semi-Automatique de 7.5mm Modele 1949)
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[ Algeria; France; Monaco; Vietnam ]
MilitaryFactory.com: BMP-2 (Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty)
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[ Afghanistan; Algeria; Angola; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Czechoslovakia; Czech Republic; East Germany / West Germany; Finland; Georgia; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Ivory Coast; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Macedonia; Poland; Russia; Sierra Leone; Slovakia; Soviet Union; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Syria; Tajikistan; Togo; Turkmenistan; Uganda; Ukraine; Uzbekistan; Vietnam; Yemen ]
MilitaryFactory.com: WKW Wilk / Tor
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[ Poland; Saudi Arabia; Vietnam ]
MilitaryFactory.com: MON-50
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[ Afghanistan; Albania; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Cambodia; China; Egypt; Estonia; Finland; Georgia; Hungary; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Latvia; Libya; Malaysia; Myanmar; Moldova; Mongolia; North Korea; Pakistan; Poland; Romania; Russia; Soviet Union; Tajikistan; Thailand; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan; Vietnam; Yugoslavia ]
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