Product Description
*This item is now out of print and replaced by TCA712*
Mechanized Platoon (TCA702)
Includes one Formation Commander C1 rifle team, three C2 SAW teams with M72 Anti-tank weapons, three Carl Gustav anti-tank teams, one M19 60mm mortar team, one C5 GPMG team, seven medium four-hole bases, one small two-hole base and one small three-hole base and three Unit Cards.
A Canadian mechanized platoon is organised into three sections and command group. A section usually consists of ten men, a section commander (Sergeant) and 2IC (Master Corporal) each armed with a C1 FN assault rifle, M113 driver with an SMG, three riflemen with C1 FN assault rifles, two C2 heavy-barrel FN Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) gunners, a Carl Gustav 84mm SRAAW (M) (Short-Range Anti-Armour Weapon-Medium) gunner and a Carl Gustav 84mm SRAAW (M) loader with a C1 FN assault rifle. The HQ Group also includes a C5 GPMG (M1919 chambered in 7.62mm NATO) machine-gun and a 60mm mortar. The platoon is also issued with a number of M72 SRAAW (L) light short-range anti-armour weapons.
The mechanized platoons of 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group are trained and prepared for large scale combined arms defence and counterattacks against a Warsaw Pact invasion of West Germany and Western Europe. Training, equipment and tactics are designed to face this threat, and annual exercises keep them fully prepared.
Note: This product is supplied unassembled and unpainted. Glue and paints not included.
