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M18 Smoke Draft

Category:Equipment of Vietnam

Factions	Weapon	Icon	Classes	Stats
				Smoke Radius	Duration	Colors
US	M18 Smoke		Assault Medic Gunner Sniper	500	10 seconds	Red, green, yellow, violet

Designation	Weapon Type	Place of Origin	Weapon Script Name
M18 Colored Smoke Grenade	Smoke Grenade	United States of America	weapon_m18r

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M18 Smoke is a U.S. colored smoke grenade. It fills the same basic role as AN-M8 Smoke, but uses colored smoke for marking positions, signaling, or making a location stand out.

In-Game Function

M18 Smoke is thrown like a grenade and produces colored smoke after a short fuse. It has a smoke radius of 500 and lasts 10 seconds. The script defines red, green, yellow, and violet smoke colors. It is available to the U.S. Assault, Medic, Gunner, and Sniper classes.

HISTORY

The real M18 colored smoke grenade was a U.S. hand-thrown smoke grenade built for signaling. Instead of making only a white smoke screen, it could be filled for red, green, yellow, or violet smoke. That made it useful for marking friendly positions, landing zones, extraction points, and targets that needed to be recognized from the air or at a distance.

Like the AN-M8, the M18 was a burning-type smoke grenade rather than a bursting explosive grenade. U.S. ordnance references list the M18 as using a pyrotechnic delay igniting fuze and colored smoke mix, with real smoke output lasting about 50 to 90 seconds.

Colored smoke was especially useful in the Vietnam War, where aircraft and ground units often had to coordinate through jungle cover, uneven terrain, and confusing contact. The M18 was not the best choice when a unit simply needed a thick white screen, but it was valuable when the color itself carried the message.

Sources

• Grenade, Hand, Smoke, M18 | Bulletpicker
• Ordnance Technical Data Sheet | U.S. Army
• TC 3-23.30 Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals | U.S. Army
• M18 Colored Smoke Grenade | Wikimedia Commons

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RDG-1 Smoke Draft

Category:Equipment of Vietnam

Factions	Weapon	Icon	Classes	Stats
				Smoke Radius	Duration	Colors
VC	RDG-1 Smoke		Assault Medic Gunner Sniper	500	10 seconds	White, dark gray

Designation	Weapon Type	Place of Origin	Weapon Script Name
RDG-1 Smoke Grenade	Smoke Grenade	Soviet Union	weapon_css

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RDG-1 Smoke is the VC smoke grenade. It creates a smoke screen for crossing open ground, breaking sightlines, or covering a retreat.

In-Game Function

RDG-1 Smoke is thrown like a grenade and produces smoke after a short fuse. It has a smoke radius of 500 and lasts 10 seconds. The script defines white and dark gray smoke colors. It is available to the VC Assault, Medic, Gunner, and Sniper classes.

HISTORY

The real RDG-1 was a Soviet hand smoke grenade developed during World War II. It was designed in Leningrad during 1941, when Soviet forces needed simple smoke devices that could be produced quickly and used by individual soldiers.

The RDG-1 used a lightweight body and smoke composition rather than a high-explosive fragmentation charge. Sources describe white and dark smoke versions, with the smoke used for local concealment, masking movement, or obscuring enemy observation.

By the Vietnam War, the RDG-1 was already an older design, with the RDG-2 having largely replaced it in Soviet service. On this page, it is best understood as the game's VC-side smoke grenade with a Soviet origin, rather than a claim that this exact model was a common Vietnam War issue item.

Sources

• RDG-1 Smoke Grenade | IMFDB
• RDG-1 | Ruwiki
• Domestic Hand Grenades | A. Karpenko

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