Infantry area weapons / Jean Pierre Housson
Material type: TextPublication details: 2008Subject(s): In: Military Technology Vol 32 Issue 9, 2008, pp.89-95Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Journal Article | Mindef Library & Info Centre Journals | DEFENCE EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 25419-1001 |
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.
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