A Sampan is a 3.5 - 4.5 meter long flat-bottomed boat. It is of Chinese origin, and is used by many

traditional and rural South-East Asian populations as a fishing and transport vessel. During the Vietnam War, these vessels were used as makeshift transports for troops and supplies, as American forces would often overlook Sampans navigating through the waterways, as the entirety of the Vietnamese populace used them extensively.

Battlefield VietnamEdit

The Sampan is the only naval vessel available to NVA and Viet Cong forces. It can seat 5 players; 1 driver and 4 passengers. The driver can only navigate the boat and is relatively vulnerable to enemy fire. The passengers are crouched into the front and have their infantry weapons available to them. The Sampan is relatively ineffective as players rarely collaborate to use it for attacks, instead using it for transport. It is faster than tanks and has the same speed as the PBR, but is poorly armored and can be destroyed easily. However, if a player manages to avoid enemies, it can be an effective way of getting through waterways.

A common trick is to fill the passenger slots with RPDs or Type-53s. This gives the boat heavy firepower, while reducing the machine gun's kick therefore increasing accuracy.

v • d • e Vehicles of Battlefield Vietnam Light vehicles & APCs Vespa • 469 • M.U.T.T. (BGM-71 TOW) • Ural-375D • BRDM • M113 • BTR-60 Light tanks Sheridan • M50 Ontos • PT-76 Main battle tanks Patton • T-54 • T-72 Anti-aircraft vehicles ZSU • M55 • M35A1 Artillery M110 • BM-21 • M-46 Helicopters Huey/Huey Gunship • Cobra • ACH-47 Chinook • OH-6 Loach • Mi-8 Hip • Ka-25 Hormone Fixed-wing aircraft F-4 Phantom II • A-7 Corsair II • A-1 Skyraider • AC-47 Spooky • MiG-17 • MiG-21 Watercraft Patrol Boat River • Sampan • Tango Other Stationary M60

Battlefield: Bad Company 2Edit

Sampan is the first water transport vehicle used by the player in the level Heart of Darkness, which player must board and lead the squad through the dense jungle river. At some point, the Sampan hits ground and Bravo Two must continue on foot. It can be seen later in the level Upriver, just near the first camp, under the covering canvas, though it's unusable. It is used only once in the campaign.

v • d • e Vehicles of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Main battle tanks M1A2 Abrams (M2 Browning/M240C) • T-90 MBT (KORD/PKT) Infantry fighting vehicles M3A3 Bradley (M2 Browning) · BMD-3 Bakhcha (KORD) Anti-Aircraft Vehicles ACV-S (VADS) (cut) · BMD-3 Bakhcha AA (ZU-23-2) Light vehicles Vodnik 4WD · Cobra 4WD · HMMWV 4WD · Quad Bike · CAV · M939 Truck · Type 95 Kurogane (SP only) Helicopters Mi-28 Havoc · AH-64 Apache · UH-60 Black Hawk (M134 Dillon minigun) · Mi-24 Hind · UAV-1 Naval craft Personal Watercraft · Patrol Boat · Mark V patrol boat (Onslaught Only) . Sampan (SP only) · Raft (SP only) Emplacements ZU-23-2 · BGM-71 TOW · 9M133 Kornet · KORD · XM312 · QLZ-87 Auto GL · XM307 · VADS · M1919 Browning (SP only) Unusable vehicles 40mm Bofors (SP only) · A-10 Thunderbolt II · A6M Zero (SP only) · Antonov An-124 · F4U Corsair (SP only) · F/A-18 Hornet · Ka-52 · Su-25 Frogfoot · Type 97 Chi-Ha (SP only) · Type B1 submarine (SP only)