Quote Originally Posted by Tukhachevskii View Post
Sir,

thanks muchly() for your detailed reply! But..........you mention there were mortar tracks. Were those tracks set aside for the carriage of mortars (which were used dismounted and thereby originated with/were owned by the infantry) or were they dedicated mortar tracks (ie., the baseplate was part and parcel of the vehicle). If the latter were those mortar tracks only ever for infantry usage when the APC sqn was attached? Did this mean that the Inf bn/coy had no integral mortar sub-units or did they combine (a la the US Strykers) and deploy dismounted and mounted (or self-propelled) mortars?
The mortar tracks were dedicated mortar tracks with built in basplates (M125s I think - equivilants in any case).

The APC squadron owned the M125s, but the infantry owned the mortars (i.e. the mortars were from the mortar of the infantry's support coy) and could fire them mounted or dismounted.