Small weapons
As a small battle vehicles, weapons and equipment are called to be recorded or with the support even in complete military inferiority of the fight continued. The underlying concept is the guerrilla , that is, the approach of small groups or lone fighters who deliberately make facilities and objects of the opponent unusable through sabotage or destruction. Particularly in the Second World War , the Germans tried to their total defeat to stop and push back the enemy advance by deploying small combat units of the Kriegsmarine . The terrorist attack on the American destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden was carried out according to this pattern.
literature
- Harald Fock : Naval small weapons. Manned torpedoes, small submarines, small speed boats, explosives . Nikol, 1996, ISBN 978-3-930656-34-9 .