Motorized infantry

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Motorized Infantry in Iraq (2006)

Motorized Infantry of the Bundeswehr (2001)

As Motorized Infantry (also Motorized Rifle or Grenadiers (mot.) ) Is infantry called, which is equipped with a motor vehicle, but the fight (served) walk leads.

The mechanization of armies began with the motorized infantry before and during the First World War . Civil vehicles, such as trucks, were used to transport infantry. Most of the infantry units, such as the Bundeswehr , are now motorized. For these transports are in modern armies lightweight, armored and ABC-protected troop transport (mostly as a protected vehicle ) or armored personnel carrier used, partly for air-transportable troops even small unarmored vehicles. The classic transport on pure trucks, however, rarely takes place and is at most still practiced by armies in the Third World .

Motorized infantry is not identical to mechanized infantry such as armored infantry , which alternately mounts and dismounts from the armored personnel carrier in intermittent combat with battle tanks .

National Peoples Army

In the NVA of the GDR , the infantry equipped with armored personnel carriers or armored wheeled vehicles was called motorized riflemen (also motorized riflemen ). They corresponded to the tank grenadiers of the Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr and, according to western understanding, were mechanized infantry despite some conceptual differences.

US Army

In the US Army , a distinction was made between motorized infantry (motorized infantry) and mechanized infantry (mechanized infantry). Equipment and structure differed greatly.

armed forces

In the early years of the Bundeswehr, the motorized infantry was called Panzergrenadiers (mot.) , And hunters were set up in later army structures . Both were transported on trucks: in the early days of the Bundeswehr with the Borg Ward armored personnel carriers , the hunters later Unimog 1.5 t, below Unimog 2 t. Today, protected vehicles are used increasingly or exclusively .

French army

In the French army, parts of the Jäger battalions ( Chasseurs á pied ) were also equipped with the Unimog 1.5 t to transport troops. Today Véhicule Blindé Léger , Petit Véhicule Protégé and armored personnel carriers Véhicule de l'avant blindé are used.