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...invaded, he would be hamstrung by inexperienced leadership and unsophisticated weapons. The country's arsenal consists mainly of 149 aircraft and 150 U.S.-made M41 light tanks. On order are 149 British-made Scorpion reconnaissance vehicles that one local military specialist described as a "Jeep with a 76-mm gun on top." The illogical purchase of the Scorpions was arranged by a Thai general with a widely rumored penchant for profiteering...
...broken last week when Nyerere received a note from Gaddafi demanding an end to the invasion and the withdrawal of all Tanzanian troops. Incensed, Nyerere ordered his troops to march into Kampala. They reached the capital's suburbs in two days, after laying down a barrage of 122-mm Soviet artillery that was inaccurate but noisily effective. Amin's forces seemed to melt away under the African...
...Several thousand men of both regular and regional Vietnamese units with heavy arms are advancing toward Chinese positions," a correspondent for Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun reported from Lang Son. He described Vietnamese trucks with 105-mm. guns rolling north on Highway 1; other vehicles carried troops, weapons, ammunition and fuel toward the border. Meanwhile, under the fire of long-range 130-mm. howitzers, columns of refugees fled south, leaving Lang Son to the troops, security cadres and government officials who teemed around staging areas...
...sophisticated weaponry. Although both forces are fighting with arms made in the U.S.S.R. or with copies of Soviet models, many of the PLA's weapons were acquired before the Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s. The Vietnamese also have some captured American equipment, notably the 177-mm howitzer, which outguns any artillery piece in the Chinese inventory. One of Hanoi's favorite and most effective weapons, as Americans learned at Khe Sanh, is the 130-mm howitzer. Says one military analyst in Hong Kong: "The Vietnamese love the 130 and really know how to use it. They...
...help seems to have dulled Saigon's comprehension of how perilous its military situation was. Thanks to a congressional reduction in military aid from a requested $1.6 billion to $700 million, Vietnamese troops in early 1975 were down to 200 M-16 rounds per man and ten 105-mm artillery rounds per month, the Rand report says. Fuel shortages in Saigon forced ambulances to be towed around four-in-a-row by trucks...