page_title: Weapons of the Laotian Civil War
section_title: Recoilless rifles
hierarchical_section_title: Weapons of the Laotian Civil War / Pathet Lao forces Equipment / Recoilless rifles
caption_attribution_description: English: B-10 recoilless gun in a military museum in Zamość, Poland.
context_page_description: The Laotian Civil War was a military conflict that pitted the guerrilla forces of the Marxist-oriented Pathet Lao against the armed and security forces of the Kingdom of Laos, led by the conservative Royal Lao Government, between 1960 and 1975. Main combatants comprised:
  The Royal Lao Armed Forces, best known by its French acronym FAR, were the official armed defense forces of the Kingdom of Laos from 1959 to 1975. Subordinated to the Ministry of Defense of the Royal Lao Government at the capital Vientiane, the FAR branches were organized as follows:
  Royal Lao Army
  Royal Lao Air Force
  Royal Lao Navy
  Paramilitary security forces:
  Royal Lao Police
  Directorate of National Coordination Security Agency; a.k.a. Border Police, active from 1960 to 1965.
context_section_description: B-10
  B-11
  Type 56
  Type 65
caption: B-10 recoilless rifle
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