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Standard issue for Laotian Special Forces and Special Police Forces. Type 56: Assault rifle: 7.62×39mm China: Type 81: Assault rifle: 7.62×39mm China: AMD-65: Assault rifle: 7.62×39mm Hungarian People's Republic: Pindad SS1: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO Indonesia: In 2014, Laos imported 35 SS1 V2s and SS1 V4s. [22] Pindad SS2: Assault ...
Royal Lao Armed Forces emblem 1961–1975. The foundations of the Royal Lao Armed Forces were laid on May 11, 1947, when King Sisavang Vong granted a constitution declaring Laos an independent nation (and a Kingdom from 1949) within the colonial framework of French Indochina. This act signalled the creation of a Laotian government capable of ...
United States Military Academy – West Point, New York; United States Naval Academy – Annapolis, Maryland; United States Air Force Academy – Colorado Springs, Colorado; United States Coast Guard Academy – New London, Connecticut; United States Merchant Marine Academy – Kings Point, New York
SPECOM was the English acronym for Special Commando or Commando Speciale in French, the commando unit of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (commonly known by its French acronym FAR), which operated during the final phase of the Laotian Civil War from 1972 to 1975.
Although numerous MAAGs operated around the world throughout the 1940s–1970s, including in Yugoslavia after 1951, [1] and to the Ethiopian Armed Forces, the most famous MAAGs were those active in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, before and during the Vietnam War.
Lao People's Armed Forces; ... Ministry of Public Security (Laos) This page was last edited on 20 May 2018, at 17:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Laotian Civil War was a military conflict of the Cold War in Asia that pitted the guerrilla forces of the Marxist-oriented Pathet Lao against the armed and security forces of the Kingdom of Laos (French: Royaume du Laos), led by the conservative Royal Lao Government, between 1960 and 1975. Main combatants comprised:
In October 1965 the armed forces were renamed the Lao People's Liberation Army (LPLA). The LPLA's estimated strength was 25,000 in June 1965, 33,000 in April 1967, 48,000+ in 1970 and 35,000 in late 1972. [4]: 69–70 The LPLA was divided into regular, regional/popular and militia/guerrilla forces. LPLA forces had PAVN advisers assigned to them ...