• Heavy weapons platoon (HWP) is a term from military science which refers to an infantry platoon equipped with machine guns, mortars, rocket-propelled...
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    consists of 3 rifle platoons and a 4th platoon known as a weapons platoon. The weapons platoon typically provides heavy weapons support to the company...
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  • Crew-served weapon, a weapon that requires more than one person to transport or operate Heavy weapons platoon, an infantry platoon equipped with such weapons Heavy...
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  • men in the platoon. A full-strength Heavy Weapons Company had 205 men in total, including three officers. Apart from the special weapons, 129 men were...
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    telescoped round manufactured by Olin Winchester Crew-served weapon Heavy machine gun Heavy weapons platoon Medium machine gun "TASS: Military & Defense - Kalashnikov...
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    shoulder-launched missile weapons, and static anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. Heavy weapons platoon Personal weapon and Small arms for weapons used by individuals...
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    in its headquarters company, half of a communications platoon, and half of a heavy weapons platoon, which was armed with six obsolescent M9A1 Bazooka rocket...
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    (bicycle-mounted) Company headquarters Submachine gun platoon Submachine gun platoon Rifle platoon Heavy weapons platoon Infantry howitzer section Signal battalion...
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  • states that the platoons of Sub-Lieutenants Marcelo Martin Bracco and Alejandro Garra from the 12th Regiment's A Company came under heavy probing fire and...
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  • etc.) Weapons company A weapons company has in place of the three rifle platoons, an 81 mm mortar platoon, an anti-armor platoon, and a heavy machine...
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    commands a company, usually consisting of four platoons (three line platoons and one heavy weapons platoon). His headquarters can include a first sergeant...
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    weight, very good accuracy, and fire stability. It is designed for heavy weapons platoons personnel and reconnaissance detachments, special anti-terrorist...
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    members of Heavy Weapons Platoon (DFSW) of the 3rd battalion (PARA) Royal Australian Regiment proudly use this motto as a symbol of platoon brotherhood...
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  • 2017. According to his own account, Cafferkey was embedded in a heavy weapons platoon five weeks after he arrived, and part of the fighting around the...
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    functions. "B" and "C" Platoons are primarily responsible for crime suppression. Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), "D" Platoon personnel, respond to...
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    of one of the three heavy-weapons platoons (viz., 81mm mortar, antiarmor, and heavy machine gun) of the infantry battalion weapons company. Infantry officers...
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    Scout Sniper Platoons M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System *used by the detached Scout Sniper Platoons M82A3 SASR .50 Anti-Material Weapon M249 Squad Automatic...
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  • Korean software Hardy–Weinberg principle, in population genetics Heavy weapons platoon Highland Wildlife Park, in Scotland Human Waste Project, an American...
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    communications platoon, an aviation platoon, an M113 armored personnel carrier platoon, a psychological operations platoon, a heavy weapons platoon with a machine...
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  • believed they were looking for that unit's heavy weapons platoon of approximately 30 to 40 men. He briefed his platoon commanders accordingly, although he also...
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    anti-aircraft weapons and heavy mortars and had to resort to "human wave" tactics: "The enemy has lost nearly all their heavy crew-served weapons during the...
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  • team, mortar platoons, and heavy machine gun platoons are reorganized to provide the manpower of an MAC. Of the weapons company's weapon systems, the...
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    Cavalry troop (Stryker) (×3) Weapons troop (9 × ATGM) Headquarters and headquarters battery (HHB) Target acquisition platoon M777A2 155 mm towed howitzer...
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    Early ranged weapons often included specifically designed hand-thrown weapons such as darts, javelins, slings, as well as elastic weapons such as slingshots...
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    Parachute Infantry Regiment at Fort Liberty as a rifle platoon leader, then a heavy weapons platoon leader, and finally as a company executive officer. In...
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    The Pathfinder Platoon is a pathfinder unit of the British Army, and an integral part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. The Pathfinder Platoon acts as the brigade's...
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    anti-tank missile gunners pulled from the marine weapons company anti-armor platoon and heavy machine gun platoon, These are led by infantry squad leaders, who...
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    and advanced optical equipment to identify targets. The mortar platoon uses the heavy 120 MM mortar system to provide long range indirect fire. Field...
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    Companies E and F. The heavy weapons platoon from H Company, under Second Lieutenant Klare Moyer, was sent to plug the gap. This platoon, along with elements...
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  • leader in a heavy machine gun platoon, 81mm mortar platoon or anti-armor platoon. An infantry gunnery sergeant may serve as a weapons platoon sergeant or...
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