TY  - BOOK
AU  - HOUSSON Jean Pierre
TI  - Infantry area weapons
PY  - 2008///
KW  - INFANTRY WEAPONS
KW  - MACHINE GUNS
KW  - MORTARS
KW  - GRENADE LAUNCHERS
N2  - 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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