More than 300 Ukrainian soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 28th Mechanized Infantry Brigade completed their training rotation with the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine on April 4.

Because the 1-72nd is a mechanized brigade, the platoon live-fire incorporates BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles. This heavy machinery along with the language barrier can also create problems, said ...

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. Each platoon has ...

In practice the four M-2s in a mechanized infantry platoon went into action with two squads split between the four vehicles. The infantry never liked this and want a larger M-2 replacement to keep the ...

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. Each platoon has ...

The 28th tapped a relatively small force—a platoon of three BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, each with up to seven infantry—to advance hundreds of meters eastward across a cratered, but still ...

The system can be configured for a variety of roles such as platoon and section leader, sniper, machine gunner and grenadier (mechanized infantry). Developed and manufactured by Sagem Défense Sécurité ...

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.

On June 26, the US Army announced a new name and a new acronym for what will replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The program to do so was formerly known as the Optionally Manned ...

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 ...

July 18, 2013: The U.S. Army is currently experiencing an intense debate between designers of its new infantry fighting vehicle vehicle and infantry commanders over the importance of having an armored ...