Heavy company
The heavy company is the anti-tank and fire support company of an infantry battalion of paratroopers , mountaineers and hunters troops in the Bundeswehr . The heavy company supports the (light) infantry companies with steep fire , long-range anti - tank weapons , fire from the 20 mm automatic cannons and with reconnaissance equipment from the reconnaissance platoon.
Joint Fire Support Teams , as armed forces common tactical fire support (STF) or Joint Fire , are in the artillery battalion 131 (Weiden id Oberpfalz), the artillery battalion 295 (Stetten am kalten Markt) and the artillery teaching battalion 325 (Munster) as well as the artillery teaching battalion 345 (Idar- Oberstein) and in the heavy hunter (5./1, 5./292, 5./91), heavy paratrooper (7./26, 7./31) and the heavy mountain hunter companies (5./231, 5 ./232, 5./233).
As an anti-tank company, depending on its equipment and engine, it can fight against armored enemy forces in delay and defense, but not in attack. In fire support, she strengthens the battalion's hunter companies in the anti-tank defense, with "heavy" fire flanking the defense, but also in the attack against enemy infantry, also and especially around field positions with the field cannons MK 20 Rh 202 and the fire of the mortars Splinters and especially fog.
Up to Army Structure V , these heavy companies also existed in the armored infantry troops at that time . There it consisted of a mortar train ( M113 anti- tank mortar 120 mm ) and a HOT or TOW Jaguar tank destroyer , which were subsequently disbanded. In the future, support is to be provided by the artillery troops.
Outline today
- Company command group
- Reconnaissance platoon ( Wiesel 1 as an airborne reconnaissance vehicle (LL AufklFz) or Fennek scout car ) previously only a reconnaissance and reconnaissance platoon in the headquarters and supply company
- Joint Fire Support Troops (JFST; inter alia with the Fennek scout car ) for integration into the Armed Forces Joint Tactical Fire Support (STF).
- Mortar pull (8 × 120 mm mortar on Wolf or M113 )
- Anti-tank train (6 × Wiesel 1 TOW with anti-tank guided weapons )
- Combat support platoon (6 × Wiesel 1 MK with 20 mm Rheinmetall Rh 202 automatic cannon )
In earlier army structures, the heavy paratrooper company was subordinate
- two TOW Kraka anti-tank trains, followed by Wiesel to Army Structure 5
- Kraka field cannon train with 20 mm Rheinmetall Rh 202 automatic cannons
- Mortar train
The mortars were temporarily combined at brigade level in an independent airborne mortar company and were intended to replace the brigade artillery that was not deployed , since the artillery troops had always avoided setting up fire support aimed at the hunter troops by means of artillery or field artillery by focusing on mechanized combat management the divisional and temporarily corps artillery regiments should take place.
Web links
- Jägerbataillon 292 on the website of the Bundeswehr with the structure of the heavy company