MACV-SOG's Silent Weapon: The Swedish Gun the Enemy Never Heard
With access to any weapon in the arsenal, America's most secret soldiers reached past the M16 for a stubby little Swedish submachine gun with a tube on the muzzle. This file opens the story of the "Swedish K" — the Carl Gustaf m/45 — the physics of a truly silent gunshot, the cross-border missions where silence meant survival, and the strange twist where Sweden embargoed the weapon and America simply built its own copy. Sources: John L. Plaster, "SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam" History of the Carl Gustaf m/45 ("Swedish K") and the Smith & Wesson Model 76 U.S. special operations weapons history, Vietnam (MACV-SOG and Navy SEAL suppressed-weapon use) Sweden's mid-1960s halt on arms sales to the United States over the Vietnam War

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