{"id":30703,"date":"2026-10-15T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/type-56-with-vietnam-war-history\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:00:08","slug":"type-56-with-vietnam-war-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/type-56-with-vietnam-war-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 56 with Vietnam War History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YZKLPhVVXY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Chinese Type 56 was the export version of the Soviet RPD and saw service with North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War. Becoming a transferable machine gun in the United States required a chain of events few captured weapons ever completed.<\/p>\n<p>#MachineGun #RPD #VietnamWar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Type 56 was the export version of the Soviet RPD and saw service with North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War. Becoming a transferable machine gun in the United States required a chain of events few captured weapons ever completed. #MachineGun #RPD #VietnamWar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":30704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}