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A weapons company, sometimes called a manoeuvre support company, is a company-sized military unit attached to an infantry battalion to support the rifle companies of the battalion.[1] It usually possesses some combination of machine-guns, mortars, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, reconnaissance vehicles and, sometimes, assault pioneers (infantrymen specially trained in the assault role).

  1. ^ United States Army Field Manual 3-21.12: The Infantry Weapons.Company (PDF). United States Army. 2008. p. 1-1.

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