BP Posted August 9, 2014 Share 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolas93TS Posted August 26, 2014 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Rhodesian Grey Scout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly1 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 . Hope the horse had earplugs. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Well, at least in that B/W pic, the horse seems to have camo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Files Posted November 18, 2014 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Files Posted November 18, 2014 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Afghanistan 2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Green Beret undergoing MULE Packing Training at Fort Bragg, NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Inner Mongolia, of course... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Probably People's armed police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 That should be VERY light cavalry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 What about yaks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Actually only grazing limits horses to about (IIRC) 15km/day travel and you will be loosing horses to malnutrition anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 chino I see your yaks and raise you brazilian water buffalos: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 LOL!! You win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted October 23, 2015 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougRichards Posted October 23, 2015 Share 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." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelfe Posted October 24, 2015 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Niehorster Posted October 24, 2015 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd1 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 estonia did not have cavalry in ww2, neither did lithuania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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