BP Posted August 9, 2014 Posted August 9, 2014 This thread reminded me of someone attempting to parachute mules. A quick google search turns up this bit on the Chindits using them, but I thought some unit was trying to put mules into aircraft for the Sicily invasion and gave up, finding it too difficult. http://spotlights.fold3.com/2012/03/05/mules-in-burma/Just re-reading "Silent Wings" about US glider ops in WWII they transported the mules by glider and issued a rifle to the co-pilot to shoot any mule that freaked out on the flight. Which, you know, should have worked out well to calm the other mules jam packed into a tiny glider....
Nikolas93TS Posted August 26, 2014 Posted August 26, 2014 How about thermal signature? I would like to see Polish winged hussars back in action, their wings could be used as radio antennas. Also, Red Army used cavalry to a great extent in Operation Bagration, they could burpass enemy positions over terrain usually considered impassable for mechanised forces. After that, their importance vanished as terrain improved further west.
sunday Posted November 18, 2014 Posted November 18, 2014 Well, at least in that B/W pic, the horse seems to have camo.
X-Files Posted November 18, 2014 Posted November 18, 2014 (edited) Haflinger horses of the Austrian Jagerbattalions Goodness sake, dont show sparky. He will want to mount a recoilless rifle on one at least. Infantrymen can never wrap their walnut sized brains around the concept of 'Cavalry'. The size of the mount matters not, ye bipedal chattle. Edited November 18, 2014 by X-Files
X-Files Posted November 18, 2014 Posted November 18, 2014 (edited) . Hope the horse had earplugs. . Mounts for cavalry unit need to be trained just like their riders. That includes familiarization to (outgoing) gunfire and is the root of a certain % of remounts. See http://www.fivestarranch.com/articles/mounted-shooting.html Edited November 18, 2014 by X-Files
Mr King Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 Green Beret undergoing MULE Packing Training at Fort Bragg, NC
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) On long patrols in vast grassland, the fuel for the transport is found everywhere. Edited February 18, 2015 by chino
bojan Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 Actually only grazing limits horses to about (IIRC) 15km/day travel and you will be loosing horses to malnutrition anyway.
Panzermann Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 chino I see your yaks and raise you brazilian water buffalos:
BansheeOne Posted October 23, 2015 Posted October 23, 2015 Video from NRF exercise Trident Juncture in Spain and Portugal, among other things showing use of pack mules by German mountain troops far from the mountains.
DougRichards Posted October 23, 2015 Posted October 23, 2015 What about yaks? Someone has been watching a LITTLE too much Empire Strikes Back. Next thing we will have Llamas The one L lama, he's a priestThe two L llama, he's a beastAnd I will bet my silk pyjamaThere isn't any three L lllama. -- O. Nash, to which a fire chief replied that occasionally his department responded to something like a "three L lllama."
nigelfe Posted October 24, 2015 Posted October 24, 2015 The Russians used horsed cavalry in WW2, particularly in the Pripet marshes region. Then of course one of the three Fronts that Russia moved east in 1945 (precisely meeting their commitment at Yalta) contained the Russian-Mongolian Cavalry Mechanised Army (the southernmost army that attacked eastwards). This mixed horse and tanks. Clearly after 4 years of continuous practice on Germans the Russians realised that horses had a role against the Japanese. Of course the British also used a few horses against Japan, ie in the 3.7 in Pack Howitzer batteries of the Indian Army. Not sure if there were horses in the British mountain batteries in Italy, Of course mules were the primary means of transport for mountain btys.
Leo Niehorster Posted October 24, 2015 Posted October 24, 2015 Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA, had — although did not necessarily use — horsed cavalry in WW2. I probably missed some.
bd1 Posted October 24, 2015 Posted October 24, 2015 estonia did not have cavalry in ww2, neither did lithuania.
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