Hello, I've decided to create the perfect mechanized platoon organization for the pre-2020s era. It's suitable for wargaming, Arma, and all similar games. It's ideal for Soviet, Russian, and American IFVs with seating for 7.

This is an old problem in wargaming and worldbuilding, which has caused much debate on specialized forums for the last 25 years. I've managed to solve it. (Lol, yepp.)

And for context!? I'm interested in alternative TOE and OOB scenarios in the pre-2020 world. For the more or less real US and USSR, as well as for the American Empire, USSR 2.0, and so on, with very real equipment. It's more of an alternative history genre. But the question of the ideal "mechanized platoon with seven seats in an IFV" is actually one of the key ones.

Features:

1. Each combat vehicle has a crew of 3. None of them ever dismounts. This is an armored group. It has its own command.

2. Each vehicle has 7 seats for troops. All of these troops dismount.

3. The platoon commander and platoon sergeant always ride in separate IFVs. This is important for stability.

4. The platoon commander and sergeant each have a Ratelo. The idea is that in the event of fire contact, they immediately call in artillery and mortars.

5. The squad structure is standard: a squad leader, a GPMG team, an RPG team, and a pair of riflemen. This is really all any IFV can do.

6. All the dismounted infantry DMRs are concentrated in the command vehicle with the platoon CO.

7. The platoon sergeant's vehicle has a reduced machine gun squad - it's quite versatile, and he knows how to handle it.

8. No sections, no rotating IFV commanders, nothing. Sections complicate the control and operations of IFVs in pairs - a situational measure. The platoon commander can command his three squads as general-purpose units. His dismounted DMR squad is his personal tool.

9. The platoon is divided into dismounted infantry and an armored group. The second platoon sergeant essentially commands the armored group. This is much better than the American and Russian/Soviet models. There are a lot of leaders and few units.

10. If you want to imagine this with the MCX Spear and M250, it's very simple. Squad - squad leader, two two-man M250 team, two riflemen with M7. The machine gun squad in the platoon sergeant's vehicle - two M250s. The DMR squad in the platoon leader's vehicle is replaced with a squad of FPV drones.

  
11. Possible replacements!? For the Americans – a Javelin instead of an RPG. For the Soviets/Russians/Americans in local conflicts – 2 RG-6s or Milkor MGLs instead of an RPG team.

What do you think!? Thx.

Have a nice day.

Mechanized Platoon for the Pre-2020s Era: The Ultimate Solution.