Infantry/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

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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]

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]

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