Do all enemies of the USA use Russian/ Soviet weapons?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

why would they sound different?

I guess he means if you heard one on full auto you could assume it wasn’t friendly. Really, though, there was very little ground combat (only ~10,000 British troops were deployed) during the Falklands War so it didn’t matter.

Yes, the Falkland conflict featured many “Western” weapons used against each other, especially the most famous, the French-made Exocet missiles.

Come to think of it, the best example was Argentina using (British-built) Canberra bombers.

[bryanmaguire]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

I guess he means if you heard one on full auto you could assume it wasn’t friendly. Really, though, there was very little ground combat (only ~10,000 British troops were deployed) during the Falklands War so it didn’t matter.

Come to think of it, the best example was Argentina using (British-built) Canberra bombers.

that makes sense

[LSLGuy]

@bryanmaguire

I dont see why. they were basically the same rifle except one was metric and the other imperial. why would they sound different?

As pointed out by others above …

You missed the part wherein I was replying to a guy who said the British squaddies liked to pick up abandoned Argentine rifles because the Brit-issue version was semi-auto only whereas the Argentine version was full auto.

[bryanmaguire]

@LSLGuy

As pointed out by others above …

You missed the part wherein I was replying to a guy who said the British squaddies liked to pick up abandoned Argentine rifles because the Brit-issue version was semi-auto only whereas the Argentine version was full auto.

I didnt. The guy you replied to was me.

[Baron_Greenback]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

Come to think of it, the best example was Argentina using (British-built) Canberra bombers.

I didn’t know Argentina used Canberras during the Falklands unpleasantness, so went on a wiki-walk and found out that Nasa still has a couple of US-made variants in operation! :eek: The value of a good design, I suppose

[Enola_Straight]

I don’t know if the US considers them our enemy per se, but the Irish Republican Army considers their signature rifle to be the American made Armalite AR-18.

Provisional Irish Republican Army arms importation

[thelurkinghorror]

@Enola_Straight

I don’t know if the US considers them our enemy per se, but the Irish Republican Army considers their signature rifle to be the American made Armalite AR-18.
Provisional Irish Republican Army arms importation - Wikipedia

Well, the PIRA isn’t officially armed anymore, although I imagine the RIRA and CIRA are using similar weapons. None ever fought the US but were put on lists. Most of the AR-18/AR-180s would’ve come from the US, as noted.
Many of the arms did come from Libya, which certainly wasn’t friendly with the US at the time. Some of the Libyan arms (MP5, FN MAG [as M240], and the Berettas) are used by the US military in some capacity.