You must have a different definition of "outclassed" to me. If you define it as "if we all stand up in a line and shoot at each other in some kind of suicidal "

You must have a different definition of "outclassed" to me. If you define it as "if we all stand up in a line and shoot at each other in some kind of suicidal "straight up fight", who does better?", then yes, I can see why you'd say that. I would say that the NVA categorically outclassed their opponents. On paper, they had all the disadvantages. Outgunned, outnumbered, less well-equipped (well, during the early days of the M16 rifle they were far better equipped since the the NVA had rifles that actually worked - just how "classy" is an army that gives its infantry rifles that don't work and then wastes time denying the problem?), the list goes on and on. "they won the PR battle though." And indeed, the actual battle to occupy the south.