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Parent topics
- Combat arms [r]: In a land military organization, the functions of infantry, units based on armored fighting vehicles, artillery, air, artillery and missile defense, combat engineers, army cooperation aviation and special operations forces. All combat arms units engage in direct contact with enemy personnel or systems. [e]
- Mobility (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Countermobility [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Assault Breacher Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bridging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M104 Wolverine [r]: A self-propelled armored launcher for bridges, capable of carrying M1 Abrams tanks; only a few were built due to their cost [e]
- Countermining [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Demining [r]: A subset of mine warfare, usually refers to clearing land mines after the end of conflict; it is sometimes called humanitarian demining, and is often done by organizations much more poorly equipped than combat engineers [e]
- Explosive ordnance disposal [r]: The techniques of identifying hazardous explosive devices, including unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IED), determining if they can be rendered safe, and either attempting to render them safe or, after suitable precautions, destroying them in place [e]
- Mine (land warfare) [r]: A destructive device used in land warfare, which waits passively for a target and then detonates due to some action or physical property of the target [e]
Other related topics
- Brigade [r]: A military unit of 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers, organized either for a combined arms combat function or a support role [e]
- Direct support [r]: "A [military] mission requiring a force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly to the supported force’s request for assistance." (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff) [e]
- M729 (combat engineering vehicle) [r]: No longer in service, a U.S. Army vehicle, built on an M60 Patton tank chassis, which carried a lifting crane, short-barrelled 165mm gun for destroying obstacles, and other equipment to support combat engineer functions on the battlefield [e]
