• Infantry support guns or battalion guns are artillery weapons designed and used to increase the firepower of the infantry units they are intrinsic to...
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  • Infantry support guns are designed to provide direct organic support for infantry forces. They fire a range of shells, primarily in a direct fire mode...
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    Assault gun An assault gun (from German: Sturmgeschütz, lit. 'storm gun', meaning "assault gun") is a type of armored infantry support vehicle and self-propelled...
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    The Type 11 37 mm infantry support gun (十一年式平射歩兵砲, Jyūiichinen-shiki Heisha hoheihō) was an infantry support gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in...
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    7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz 37 (category Infantry guns)
    Infanteriegeschütz 37 (7.5 cm IG 37) was an infantry support gun, used by Germany during World War II. The guns were originally designated 7.5 cm PaK 37...
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    Canon d'Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 TRP (category World War I infantry guns of France)
    d'Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 TRP (37mm mle.1916) was a French infantry support gun, first used during World War I. TRP stands for tir rapide, Puteaux...
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    The 76 mm regimental gun M1927 (Russian: 76-мм полковая пушка обр. 1927 г.) was a Soviet infantry support gun. The gun was developed in 1927 by the design...
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    aircraft. Modern gun-artillery such as the L118 105 mm light gun or the M119 105 mm howitzer are used to provide fire support for infantry and armour at...
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    Semi-automatic Gun, Mark C on Carriage Mark A. It was intended as an infantry support gun or as a landing gun for amphibious operations. In the infantry support role...
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    during World War II the gun very quickly became obsolete as an anti-tank gun but was still used effectively as an infantry support gun for the entirety of...
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    The 76-mm regimental gun M1943 (OB-25) (Russian: 76-мм полковая пушка обр. 1943 г. (ОБ-25)) was a Soviet infantry support gun developed in 1943 by M. Yu...
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  • Canon de 76 FRC (category Infantry guns)
    The Canon de 76 FRC was a Belgian infantry support gun, produced by the Fonderie Royale des Canons (FRC). The gun was typically of 76 mm calibre; however...
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    Russian M1913 carriage. The 76 LK/10/13 was also used as an infantry support gun. 76 mm regimental gun M1927 - The design of the M1913 was used as the pattern...
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    during the second half of the 1940s as a crew-served man-portable infantry support gun for close-range multi-role anti-armour, anti-personnel, battlefield...
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    7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 (category Infantry guns)
    18 (7.5 cm le.IG 18) was an infantry support gun of the German Wehrmacht used during World War II. Development of the gun began in 1927, by Rheinmetall...
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    machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon...
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    weapon was generally used as an infantry support gun. After 1940, the Germans used the guns as the 6,5 cm GebK 221(f). The gun was also used by Israel in 1948...
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    Smoothbore (redirect from Smoothbore gun)
    without rifling. Smoothbores range from handheld firearms to powerful tank guns and large artillery mortars. Early firearms had smoothly bored barrels that...
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    (after whom the Schneider-Danglis gun was named) in the 1890s. Mountain guns are similar to infantry support guns. They are largely outdated, their role...
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    Airborne guns are airborne artillery pieces, designed for use by paratroopers. They are generally specific or specialised types of infantry support guns, being...
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    Brummbär (category World War II assault guns)
    (also known as Sturmpanzer 43 or Sd.Kfz. 166) is a German armoured infantry support gun based on the Panzer IV chassis used in the Second World War. It was...
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    destroy anti-ship missiles and low flying aircraft. Chain gun Gast gun Infantry support gun List of autocannon Recoil operation Revolver cannon Rotary...
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    3.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz M.15 (category World War I infantry guns)
    gun's role Infanteriegeschütz which in German means infantry support gun and the model according to the year of introduction. Captured Austrian guns and...
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    eliminate the German trench lines with their machine gun and infantry support gun positions, the Allied infantry would follow and secure the breach, and the cavalry...
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    Type 94 75 mm mountain gun (九四式山砲, Kyūyon-shiki nanagō-miri Sanpō) was a mountain gun used as a general-purpose infantry support gun by the Imperial Japanese...
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    Mortar (weapon) (redirect from Gun-mortar)
    barrels in comparison to guns and are much more lightly built than guns of a similar calibre – all characteristics of infantry mortars. This produces a...
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  • Hotchkiss 1909 Hotchkiss Mle 1914 Hotchkiss M1922 Lewis gun PM M1910 Degtyaryov machine gun M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle Maxim–Tokarev Madsen machinegun...
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  • 60mm HVMS (category Tank guns of Israel)
    kinetic ammunition. The 60mm HVMS autocannon was designed as an infantry support gun mounted on light armored vehicles. The project commenced in 1977...
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    McClean Mk. III was intended as an infantry support gun or as a landing gun for amphibious operations. In the infantry support role, it would have been used...
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    MG 08 (redirect from LMG 08/15 machine gun)
    first considered using the Maxim gun as an artillery weapon The German light infantry Jäger troops began trials of the gun in 1898. The Guards Corps, II...
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