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McGoll mentions the 6 man rifle squad a lot and lists all the advantages. Yet he doesn’t say anything about the size of the weapons squad with 2 x GPMG and one 90 mm kickless cannon. If his idea of...

Great find Tukhachevskii.

On a first skim:

Mentions from page 50 onwards the high infantry ratios (tooth to tail).

Page 53 shows that this ‘fireteam’ structure was introduced to mitigate a...

So if I understand this correctly, your crews form a section, and then there are three dismount sections of 7? So per vehicle the 3 + 7 do not form one section? Just interested in how exactly this...

Wilf:


Have the Brits not partially overcome the ‘fewer’ snipers by adding an 8.59 DM at platoon level?

Which would indeed go a long way towards:

Jcustis:

Sure does. So if I get this right, 20 out of a total of 44 now form 5 seperate 4 man HQ elements within the platoon?!?! To lead 6 x 4 man fire teams.:confused::rolleyes: