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Weapon storage facilities shaped like temples.

Weapon storage facilities shaped like temples.
Oh woah...

Oh woah...

Combined with the US rules of engagement it was even one of the reasons Vietnam won. Quite saddening.

Combined with the US rules of engagement it was even one of the reasons Vietnam won. Quite saddening.
Ah, confused me for a second. I thought it was a U.S. tactic, hence I was even more curious about it. Yes that is quite unfortunate...

Here's one,

Thermobaric weapons technology was developed further during the Vietnam war era via the development of fuel-air munitions as U.S. forces sought to develop weapons that would either clear areas of forests large enough to serve as helicopter landings or to clear areas of forest cover used by the viet-cong and or the VC forces that happened to be in that area of forest at the same time.

Napalm is a thermobaric weapon of a kind, but you could mention Daisy Cutter bombs specifically, which led in turn to the MOAB that was tested a few years ago.

Wiki it. Good luck

The body multiplier bomb: Low body counts getting you down? Got the brass on your arse because your not killing Vietcong fast? Well just use the body multiplier bomb and count each piece as a complete kill. Pretty soon your body counts will be so high the retro-neocons in the Pentagon will think they're winning the war.

Alright, see, what are examples of weapon and technological developments during the Vietnam War? I know that napalm, defoliants, and Agent Orange are among them but after that I can't find anything.

Napalm was invented in WW1. (although the specific Vietnam war type as we know it dates from WW2)

Napalm was invented in WW1.

I would have said world war II. But if you say World War One I'll believe you. It doesn't strike me as being very complex to make.

Edit: I see you expanded on you answer. Now I see.

I would have said world war II. But if you say World War One I'll believe you. It doesn't strike me as being very complex to make.

Edit: I see you expanded on you answer. Now I see.

Yeah, well, to elaborate further, the Central Powers used jellied petroleum as fuel for flamethrowers in the First World War, but it wasn't actually used in bomb form as the specific Napthalene-Palmitate compound until WW2.

The body multiplier bomb: Low body counts getting you down? Got the brass on your arse because your not killing Vietcong fast? Well just use the body multiplier bomb and count each piece as a complete kill. Pretty soon your body counts will be so high the retro-neocons in the Pentagon will think they're winning the war.
Hmm, this is definatly interesting but I cannot find more information on it. Is that the actual name of the bomb?? :confused:

Hmm, this is definatly interesting but I cannot find more information on it. Is that the actual name of the bomb??

I'm sorry. This is actually a bad joke playing on the pentagon's obsession with enemy body counts. I'm sure someone else here would have a better knowledge of the details but basically the brass made it known that they wanted high body counts, so there was presure on people in the field to things like count each part of a dead body as a person.

Helicopters were first used in the vietnam war. [dont give some crap about nazi scientists or some obscure war a year earlier or something].

Helicopters were first used in the vietnam war. [dont give some crap about nazi scientists or some obscure war a year earlier or something].
What, like the war in Korea? (You've seen M*A*S*H, haven't you?)

But yeah, the Huey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-1_Iroquois) saw a lot of action in Vietnam...