US DoD Photo Rangers with the 2nd Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment fire a Ranger Antitank Weapons System (RAWS). The Weapons Platoon in each Ranger Rifle Company includes an Anti-Armor Section of 3 3-man teams armed with the RAWs or Javelin missile. ...
The 60mm mortar is typically fielded at the infantry company level. A small mortar section with two mortars is organic to Army rifle companies (light, airborne, air assault) and Ranger companies. Marine rifle companies have a section with three 60mm mortars in the company weapons platoon. The ...
The standard issue infantry weapon of the Finnish Defence Forces, it was used by Valmet's UNFID FRDF platoon in Africa. RPG-7Ugo taking aim at Somali pirates with the RPG-7 in Episode 6.The RPG-7 is a widely-produced, portable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank rocket-propelled ...
Latest update: I’ve been told that Rangers have since abandoned the Mk46 as the Army has upgraded, or is upgrading the M249 SAW. In this manner, Rangers are able to revert back to the SAW with the US Army footing the bill rather than have it come out of the SOCOM budget. The Mk47...
“rifle squads” and the US Army’s standard rifle squad was one M-14 adopted to fire automatic and the rest locked on semi-automatic only, with a pair of M60 machine guns assigned to the platoon. Look up the 7th Cav’s TO&E of the period to see what the actual mix was–no one...
Me, as an armorer with lots of opportunity to play with a (very) vintage BAR, and my Dad as a Platoon Leader on Attu, Kwajalein, and Luzon. Neither of us liked it much for all the well-known reasons—too heavy, too small a mag, etc. but the real problem was that blasted open ...
The 54-year-old was born on 13 July 1970 in Kostroma. He went on to attend Kostroma Higher Military Command School of Chemical Defence, graduating in 2007. During his time there, between 1991 and 1995, he served as a platoon commander in the Western Group of Forces...
radio and TV stations which require good planning with prioritisation of targets to be cleared and captured. US infantry and platoon levels train in 14 basic drills like ‘entering and clearing a room; clearing a bunker, urban assaults’ and so on. It is required to train fighting inside a...
the Type 87 is the first grenade launcher that has entered service with the PLA as a standard weapon equipment. The weapon was described as “mini infantry artillery” and has been serving with the PLA infantry (including airborne forces and the Marine Corps) at platoon and company...
Russia opposes US firmly by each kind of channel to the Afghan smuggling weapon; Russia thought Afghan as well as the world peace for the premise name, sends out the army to carry on the platoon to the Afghan area frontier to look up, fundamentally will cut off the narcotic supply as wel...