Infantry area weapons /
HOUSSON Jean Pierre
Infantry area weapons / Jean Pierre Housson - 2008
Review of trends in infantry squad and platoon light support weapons. For squads these are typically light machine guns and or grenade launchers, while at platoon level the weapons might be GPMGs, HMGs, automatic grenade launchers, and light mortars for indirect fire. Describes some advances in weapons technology. Notes that the U.S. has dropped several development programmes and that both British and American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have rediscovered the usefulness of the M2 heavy machine gun.
INFANTRY WEAPONS
MACHINE GUNS
MORTARS
GRENADE LAUNCHERS
Infantry area weapons / Jean Pierre Housson - 2008
Review of trends in infantry squad and platoon light support weapons. For squads these are typically light machine guns and or grenade launchers, while at platoon level the weapons might be GPMGs, HMGs, automatic grenade launchers, and light mortars for indirect fire. Describes some advances in weapons technology. Notes that the U.S. has dropped several development programmes and that both British and American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have rediscovered the usefulness of the M2 heavy machine gun.
INFANTRY WEAPONS
MACHINE GUNS
MORTARS
GRENADE LAUNCHERS