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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]
Subtopics
- Armored fighting vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armored personnel carrier [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infantry fighting vehicle [r]: A vehicle intended to carry infantry onto a battlefield, sometimes allowing them to fight from inside and always to dismount and fight on foot; it accompanies dismounts and provides heavier fire support than they can carry [e]
- Military doctrine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Military formation (ground) [r]: The military term for a grouping of units. [e]
Weapons
- Firearm [r]: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity, using the energy of gases generated by a controlled explosion. [e]
- Bayonet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Grenade [r]: A small explosive charge, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a weapon that can be carried by infantry [e]
- Rifle [r]: Primarily a shoulder-filed individual weapon, used for hunting, target shooting, and infantry combat; the term may also apply to larger artillery pieces with rifled barrels that impart stabilizing spin to their projectiles [e]
- Anti-tank missile [r]: A air-to-surface or surface-to-surface missile, optimized to defeat the most heavily armored tanks by such measures as attacking the thinnest armor, or using dual warheads to defeat reactive armor [e]
- M47 Dragon [r]: An obsolete U.S. medium anti-tank missile for infantry use, replaced by the FGM-148 Javelin [e]
- FGM-148 Javelin [r]: A shoulder-fired, "fire and forget" missile using thermal viewing in the control unit and seeker, the missile has selectable pop-up anti-tank and direct fire (i.e., against buildings) flight modes [e]
- Man-portable air defense system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Machine gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Submachine gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- PPSh41 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Electronics
- Squad tactical radio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intra-squad radio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Laser designator [r]: Add brief definition or description
Specialized infantry
- Paratroop [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval infantry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mountain warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description