Название: Light tank tactics

Автор: Marine Corps

Издательство: Marine Corps Schools

Год: 1943

Страниц: 72

Формат: pdf

Размер: 10.7 MB

Язык: английский

A tank is a motor-propelled, heavily armored, track-laying vehicle, armed with machine guns utilizing flexible mounts, or machine guns and light and medium cannon. One flexible mount is provided for antiaircraft protection. Armored vehicles which operate on wheels or on wheels and tracks (half-track vehicles) and track-laying gun mounts (seif-pvopellcd guns)  arc not classified as tanks.

It must be understood that tanks are now constructed and utilized for a particular type of combat. Small, fast, lightly armored tanks used for scouting would be of little value in attacking heavily fortified positions. Heavily armed and armored tanks which have little difficulty in moving through well-organized ground resistance might become hopelessly stalled in marshy ground.

Contents:

- General

- Tank tactics

- Special operations

- Tables of organization

- Illustrations