Infantry block
An infantry block is a combat block of an artillery or infantry plant , which is intended to defend against infantry in close combat . These can be infantry casemates or infantry bunkers . Infantry casemates have wall slits for heavy machine guns and anti-tank guns , which generally have a flanking effect. They also have armored domes for light machine guns for frontal defense. Infantry bunkers are completely sunk into the ground. Only a retractable armored turret with a heavy twin machine gun and possibly one, rarely two machine-gun armored domes are visible from the outside. In rare cases there is also an armored bell for a heavy twin machine gun.
Armament
3.7 cm anti-tank gun model 1934
4.7 cm anti-tank gun model 1934
7.5 mm twin machine gun Reibel model 1931
7.5 mm light machine gun model 1924/1929
5 cm grenade launcher model 1935 (used in MG armored domes)
Hand grenade launcher (pipes for ejecting hand grenades through the bunker wall)
arme mixedte, combination weapon from a 2.5 cm anti-tank gun and a Reibel twin machine gun (only in the "nouveau front", a later construction phase in the northwest of the Maginot Line ).
Web links
- Pictures and information about franz. Infantry Blocks - in the Maginot Line (German and English)
- Deep Darkness - More pictures: Infantry block and armored turret using the example of the Metrich artillery plant, Maginot line.