Editing River monitor (section)

==Asia==
On Asian rivers, the [[Amur Military Flotilla]] on the [[Amur River|Amur]] used large ''Taifun''-class river monitors of the [[Imperial Russian Navy]] from around 1907; the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] captured some of these ships in 1918.<ref>See  Warships of World War II. Retrieved 25 August 2015.</ref> They were up to 1,000 tons displacement, armed with 130&nbsp;mm guns. Some of these Russian monitors, such as the recommissioned ''Sverdlov'', were still in use by the [[Soviet Navy]] in the 1945 [[Soviet invasion of Manchuria]].<ref>Glantz, David (2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=klCQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA222 Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945: 'August Storm']. Routledge, p. 222. {{ISBN|9781135774783}}</ref> The most powerful and largest riverine vessels were three [[Khasan-class monitor]]s from 1940s, with 2,400 ton full displacement and limited seagoing capabilities.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=S.V. Patianin|title=Korabli Vtoroi mirovoi voiny. VMF SSSR 1941-1945 gg.|magazine=Morskaya Kampaniya|issue=3(24)/2009|year=2009|lang=ru|pages=54–56}}</ref>

During the [[Vietnam War]], the [[United States Navy]], in conjunction with other riverine craft, commissioned 24 monitors, ten of which mounted a single 40&nbsp;mm cannon in a Mk 52 turret, eight which mounted an M49 105&nbsp;mm [[howitzer]] within a T172 turret,<ref>Carrico, p. 27</ref> and six monitors which mounted two M10-8 flamethrowers from two M8 turrets located on either side of the vessel's 40&nbsp;mm cannon. Referred to as "river battleships"<ref>Carrico, p. 20, 21, 63</ref> by their crews, they provided the firepower of the [[brown-water navy]].