Mechanised Platoon (x44 Figs) (TCA712) Contains one C1 Rifle Team, three C2 Rifle Teams with M72 Anti-tank, three Carl Gustav Anti-tank Teams or C1 Rifle Teams with Eryx Missile Teams, one C5 GPMG Team, one M19 60mm Mortar Team, eight medium bases and two small bases. Check out the Mechanised Platoon (x44 Figs) in the Online Store...

Since its inception in 1949, NATO has been a community of free nations brought together with a common goal, to defend the freedom of Western Europe and North America. To do this Canada, France, Netherlands, and Belgium deploy armoured and mechanised forces in West Germany. Old allies have also been called on, and an ANZAC Brigade of Australian and New Zealand troops have answered the call to fight....

A Canadian mechanized platoon is organised into three sections and a 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. Some units have been given the new Eryx short-range guided anti-tank missile to replace their Carl Gustavs.

C1 Rifle Team

C2 Rifle Team with M72 Anti-tank

Carl Gustav Anti-tank Team

C1 Rifle Team with Eryx Missile

C5 GPMG Team

M19 60mm Mortar Team