FM 4-101: Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery with Armored Forces

FM 4-101 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery with Armored Forces

FM 4-101

Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery with Armored Forces

Army · FM · Jan 1943 · 49 pages

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RESTRICTED FM 4-101 1-2 ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL EMPLOYMENT OF ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY WITH ARMORED FORCES CHAPTER 1 GENERAL TM@ 1. Misston—a. The normal mission of the antiaircraft (AA)' automatic weapons battalion with armored forces is the protection of installations, trains, assembly areas, defiles, and other vital points from low-level and dive bombardment attack. b. The contingent mission is antitank defense. This mission should not be permitted to interfere with the normal mission of AA defense unless ordered to assume a primary antitank mission. 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF ARMAMENT.—da. The self-propelled AA gun mount is armed with a 37-mm (or 40-mm) automatic cannon and two caliber .50 AA machine guns. The three guns are mounted as a unit on a half-track (or full-track) vehicle. They are traversed and elevated manually by lateral and vertical trackers.

DesignationFM 4-101

EditionJan 1943

StatusSuperseded

Pages49

FunctionFires

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 21

FM 17-100Not in the Vault
FM 4-105Not in the Vault
FM 4-157Not in the Vault
FM 17-58Not in the Vault
TM 10-460Not in the Vault
FM 21-45Not in the Vault