Mechanized infantry platoons consist of three mechanized squads without additional firepower, although a Stryker platoon will have a weapons squad with two M240B machine guns.

Mechanized infantry platoons consist of three mechanized squads without additional firepower, although a Stryker platoon will have a weapons squad with two M240B machine guns.

As a mechanized infantry platoon leader more than 20 years ago, I practiced conducting a fighting retreat following a hypothetical invasion of Western Europe. We used NATO Standardization Agreements ...

Michael Galey, a native of Ames, Iowa, and an infantrymen assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, pulls security after entering a ...

Attached to a mechanized infantry unit at the time, Johnson said the surge in fighting throughout South Vietnam felt like business as usual for his unit in the area they patrolled along Highway 13 ...

During the 1930s Germany motorised and mechanized infantry came into being, organized as part of a ‘combined arms’ formation. The term Panzergrenadier came about in 1942, classifying all the ...

A new ride, designed to replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, will leverage autonomous tech to help the two human operators. Kelsey D. Atherton Jun 28, 2023 3:26 PM EDT ...

The vehicle, which the Army is now calling the XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle, will replace the decades-old M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle as the service’s primary armored troop carrier.

RUKLA BARRACKS, Lithuania --The German Bundeswehr, 104th Panzer Battalion, homebased in Pfreimd, Bavaria, replaced the 371st Mechanized Infantry Battalion from Marienberg, Saxony in a transfer of ...

The 47th Brigade is the sole user of the nearly 200 of the 40-ton, three-crew M-2s, each of which can haul eight infantry under armor and support them with its powerful 25-millimeter autocannon.