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Heavy weapons platoon (HWP) is a term from military science which refers to an infantry platoon equipped with machine guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons, or any other weapons that are portable but heavier than a single infantryman can reasonably transport and operate by themselves for combat,[1] generally a crew-served weapon. Heavy weapons platoons are grouped into a weapons company or maneuver support company, which focuses on moving and using heavy weapons to support light infantry rifle companies armed with standard-issue small arms.[2]
Crew-served weapon, a weapon that requires more than one person to transport or operate Heavyweaponsplatoon, an infantry platoon equipped with such weapons Heavy...
men in the platoon. A full-strength HeavyWeapons Company had 205 men in total, including three officers. Apart from the special weapons, 129 men were...
commands a company, usually consisting of four platoons (three line platoons and one heavyweaponsplatoon). His headquarters can include a first sergeant...
in its headquarters company, half of a communications platoon, and half of a heavyweaponsplatoon, which was armed with six obsolescent M9A1 Bazooka rocket...
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...
communications platoon, an aviation platoon, an M113 armored personnel carrier platoon, a psychological operations platoon, a heavyweaponsplatoon with a machine...
weight, very good accuracy, and fire stability. It is designed for heavyweaponsplatoons personnel and reconnaissance detachments, special anti-terrorist...
functions. "B" and "C" Platoons are primarily responsible for crime suppression. Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), "D" Platoon personnel, respond to...
believed they were looking for that unit's heavyweaponsplatoon of approximately 30 to 40 men. He briefed his platoon commanders accordingly, although he also...
members of HeavyWeaponsPlatoon (DFSW) of the 3rd battalion (PARA) Royal Australian Regiment proudly use this motto as a symbol of platoon brotherhood...
2017. According to his own account, Cafferkey was embedded in a heavyweaponsplatoon five weeks after he arrived, and part of the fighting around the...
of one of the three heavy-weaponsplatoons (viz., 81mm mortar, antiarmor, and heavy machine gun) of the infantry battalion weapons company. Infantry officers...
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...
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...
with a scout platoon, 107 mm (4.2 inch) heavy mortar platoon, along with other elements that varied between organisations. These included heavy anti-tank...
leader in a heavy machine gun platoon, 81mm mortar platoon or anti-armor platoon. An infantry gunnery sergeant may serve as a weaponsplatoon sergeant or...
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...
tactical sub-unit being the section, which was also known as a half-platoon (the platoon itself being a half company). Depending upon the time period, the...
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