FM 17-47: Air Cavalry Combat Brigade | T.REX ARMS Field Manual Vault

FM 17-47 Air Cavalry Combat Brigade

FM 17-47

Air Cavalry Combat Brigade

Army · FM · Apr 1977 · 113 pages

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THE AIR CAVALRY COMBAT BRIGADE The ACCB is organized primarily as a highly mobile force to destroy tanks and other armored vehicles. In describing how the ACCB fights, this manual will discuss employment of attack helicopter battalions and air cavalry squadrons. For additional details about how attack helicopter battalions fight, the reader should refer to FM 17-50, Attack Helicopter Operations; for additional details about how air cavalry squadrons fight, see FM 17-95, Cavalry Operations. The ACCB may fight independently as a part of a corps, or all or part of the ACCB may be placed under operational control of a division, a ground combat brigade, or an armored cavalry regiment. It may fight as a brigade, or subordinate units of battalion size may be employed to counter multiple threats in division and ground combat brigade operational areas.

DesignationFM 17-47

EditionApr 1977

StatusSuperseded

Pages113

FunctionSmall Unit Tactics

EchelonBrigade

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 10

FM 17-4Not in the Vault
FM 44-23Not in the Vault