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Are there still Vietnam booby traps?
The Vietnamese did not put up well with the invasion, and did everything in their power to defend against the Americans. One strategy was booby traps, and there are still many tunnels and traps that have survived.
Why are punji sticks banned?
To make the Punji sticks more dangerous and poisonous, the Vietnamese army laced sharpened tips of sticks with toxic plants, animal urine, frogs, or even human faeces, to cause infection. The use of punji sticks in any act of conflict is banned from use under the 1980 Geneva Convention.
What booby traps did the Viet Cong use?
A cartridge trap is a type of booby trap devised by the Viet Cong and subsequently used against American and other anti-Communist forces supporting South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It derives its name from the fact that the wounding component of the trap is a small arms cartridge.
Are spike traps banned in war?
Though these sound pretty medieval, spike pits were in use as late as the Vietnam War. However, Protocol II of the 1979 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons finally banned their use altogether.
Are there any traps in the Vietnam War?
Sometimes (in the case of larger shells) fatal, most often these traps left a man permanently disabled. The Vietnamese made use of pressure release traps as well. In the famous movie “Platoon” (1986), a GI lifts an ammo case filled with maps he has just found in a hastily abandoned Viet Cong headquarters.
How effective were the snakes in the Vietnam War?
Left in old weapons caches, or tied and left around corners in the various tunnel complexes dug by the Viet Cong, the snakes were not necessarily the most effective booby trap of the war but ranked high in terms of the fear the thought of finding one instilled. During the course of the war, the Vietnamese perfected the “art” of the booby trap.
What weapons did the VC use in Vietnam?
Aside from the infamous bamboo punji stakes (which were also used by the Japanese in WWII), the VC sometimes used another common feature of the landscape as a booby trap or psychological weapon – poisonous snakes.
What are 5 terrifying things US troops faced in Vietnam’s jungles?
5 terrifying things US troops faced in Vietnam’s jungles 1 Giant insects. As seen in the cover photo of this post, the creepy crawlers of the jungle have the space and the food necessary to grow to an insane level. 2 Weaver ants. 3 Debilitating plants. 4 Venomous snakes. 5 Large wildlife.