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The term "crew served" such as "Shoulder fired weapons" refers to items like old bazookas or recoiless rifles where a loader is involved. The stinger and redeye systems can be carried by 2 personnel, but in Airborne units they were jumped in by the same jumper with the tracker head and missile.
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Much of this article seems dubious. The phrase "crew-served weapon" refers to a large infantry support weapon, like a machine gun or mortar. Perhaps it is also used for something like a naval gun. But an aircraft is not a "crew-served weapon".
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To my knowledge, at least as far as the US Army or Marines are concerned, firearms like the MK 19 belt fed automatic grenade launcher - which is a crew served weapon fired from a turret or tripod - are still considered small arms.
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would be better. "Crew served weapon" is the headline to a news story about an airline steward stabbed with a salad fork, no? . The unspoken context here is that there are now weapons that are
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are certainly not classes of crew-served weapons, they are subjects in military science. "All military forces are, broadly speaking, crew-served weapons"—that's just a silly statement.
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I'm not sure if this is the same for other militaries, but perhaps the bottom section referencing small arms and personal weapons should be amended.
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crew-served weapons: there is no identification of what they might entail, and no link to them. --
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I absolutely agree, and have edited the article. How can one change the title to "crew-served"?
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