Korean War Weapons.

Taylor England

P.5 03/08/11

There were many different weapons used in the Korean War. From small arms to

machine guns, from Hand grenades to mortars. Also the different countries and

different sides used different weapons. The USA used two different types of hand guns.

In the way of Automatic Weapons they used three different types. In the way of Rifles

they used 9 different types. In the way of Machine Guns they used four different types.

In the way of Hand grenades & rifle grenades. Unlike the other countries the USA didn’t

use Rocket launchers & recoilless rifles. And they used five different types of mortars.

The common wealth which is units and personnel served with United States and/or

other UN formations, which were not part of BCFK. They used Mortars, Hand grenades

and rifles, Machine guns, Automatic weapons, Rifles, and Hand guns. The communist

states used the most variety of all of the different types of weapons and are one of the

only ones to use Rocket launchers & recoilless rifles.

One of the most popular Rifles used in the USA was the, M1 Grand. It is a

semiautomatic. The caliber of the rifle is 7.62 x 63 mm (.30-06 inch) the cartridge

capacity is 8 rounds. The muzzle velocity was approximately 2,838 feet per second. And

the rate of fire was 30 rounds per minute. Adopted by the U.S. Army in 1936, the M1

Garand proved to be a tough, heavy battle rifle when it entered combat five years later.
 General Patton remarked at the end of World War II that the M1 may have been the

greatest battle implement ever devised. A bit of a stretch perhaps, but there's no doubt

that the M1 was the first successful semiautomatic rifle issued in any quantity that had

the ruggedness and accuracy to dominate the battlefield. Over 6.25 million Garands had

been manufactured by the time it was taken out of service in the early 1960s.

The number one tank used in the Korean War by the Communists was the T-34.

First produced in 1940. Top speed: 34 mph. Range: 268 miles. The four-stroke 12-cylinder diesel

engine gives a power-to-weight ratio of 15.87 horsepower per ton. Armor thickness: 65

millimeters Primary armament: 76.2-mm gun. The T-34 scores near to full points for firepower,

mobility and protection. It surpasses any other tank for ease of manufacture - gaining full points

in the production category. The tank's fear factor would have been immense, and it was

awarded just short of the maximum in that category. The 170mm was used by the Koreans and

is still being used today. The 170mm (6.7") self-propelled gun, designated M1978 or M1987 is

also an NK special, thought to have been derived from 1950's Russian coastal guns. The long-

barreled weapon is mounted on a tank chassis, and can fire a rocket-assisted shell out to forty

miles. The browning high power is a handgun that was used by the commonwealth. The

Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by

American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique

Nationale (FN) of Herstal, Belgium.

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