[Brad from Tennessee]

Article claims U.S. also used this tactic in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Iron head mike]

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[jonascord]

"Article claims U.S. also used this tactic in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq."

Umm, yeah. So? You replace the powder in a case with C-4. It doesn't have to kill them, just tear them up, some.

This "asymetrical warfare" thing works both ways, and if they steal our ammo, they have to expect an additional amount of risk. If we suspected someone was brokering stolen munitions to the Bad Guys, salted ammo was one way to annoy his customers...

[Fee]

It was one of the best psyop we did to the NVA. SOF team would sneak into enemy depot, open one of their ammo crates and replace some of it with C4 laced rounds and reseal the crates. Ammo get issued to troops who would be killed as their rifles explode. It caused the NVA to question the quality of the ammo especially the ones from China and East Europe. The best effect was inserting laced mortar rounds. They end up killing a whole mortar team.

[Tainan]

Yes we did. It was rather effective and demoralizing.
Also left defective/jiggered weapons in the brush along side well used trails.

[RC one]

I would be shaking and weighing every round I was carrying.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Fill a 7.62x39 round with Bullseye or another fast burning powder and it will blow a rifle sky high.

[Safetgiver]

This Was used and was a large part of my duties. Rigging small arms ammo, grenades, mines and then planting for the enemy to find, losing a hundred thousand in gambling and ‘supplying’ them rigged ammo to pay it off. Quite effective. Thought they were going to go back to spears for a while.

[Cowboy Bob]

I think they got this idea after watching the film “Fifth Element” :)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My first reaction was, we did this in Vietnam. All’s fair in love and war.