Mechanized infantry

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Armored personnel carrier with armored infantrymen of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (August 1942)

American infantry dismounted from a Stryker Armored Vehicle (2005)

Mechanized Swiss Infantrymen (2013)

The term Mechanized Infantry includes the branch of service Panzergrenadiere as armored mobile infantry , the off the battle changing and been taken in by and with their own armored intermittently in conjunction with their own battle tanks leads, as well as with armored wheel as the Stryker Armored Vehicle , or caused the armored transport vehicles (GTK). The grenadiers, and in some countries also fusiliers , made mobile with armored transport vehicles , are motorized infantry ; the transition between the two is fluid thanks to protected vehicles. They differ in the only dismounted combat command and the alternating mounted and dismounted armored infantry.

Demarcation

The mechanized infantry is the further development of the motorized infantry. It is equipped with armored personnel carriers and transport tanks with on-board weapons, mostly automatic cannons. The vehicles are part of the battle command and with on-board weapons and anti-tank guided missiles can also be used to defend against enemy battle tanks. The mechanized infantry leads the fight mounted and dismounted, but with the fire support of the on-board weapons of the armored personnel carrier. The troop type works closely with the armored troops during rapid advances, supports them and prevents enemy infantry from attacking the armored troops.

The motorized infantry is made mobile with unarmored transport vehicles, mostly trucks, like the hunter troop of the German armed forces until 1990, which dismounted the fight and lead through the transport vehicle without fire support. In the context of missions abroad, the motorized infantry is increasingly being equipped with protected vehicles .

In the US Army were Mot infantry (motorized infantry) or Mech infantry (mechanized infantry) viewed as a counterpart, but equipment and structure differed sharply.

In Germany, the mechanized infantry is known as the Panzer Grenadier Troop.

In the NVA of the GDR , the branch of service of mechanized infantry was moth (orisierte) Protect referred to in terms of strength and equipment to the model of the Soviet Army were based. As in the Soviet Army and in today's Russian armed forces - together with the armored forces - they formed the backbone of the land forces .