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Close-quarters battle (CQB), also called close-quarters combat (CQC), is a close combat situation between multiple combatants involving ranged (typically firearm-based) or melee combat. [1] It can occur between military units, law enforcement and criminal elements, and in other similar situations. CQB is typically defined as a short duration ...
Close combat using firearms or other distance weapons by military combatants at the tactical level is referred to in contemporary parlance as close-quarters battle. The United States Army uses the term combatives to describe various military fighting systems used in hand-to-hand combat training, systems which may incorporate eclectic techniques ...
Close Quarters Combat System (also known as Defendu) is a modern martial art developed by William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes prior to World War II.It is a hand-to-hand combat system based on practical experience mixed with Jujutsu and boxing that was developed to train the Shanghai Municipal Police, and was later taught in expanded form to Office of Strategic Services and Special ...
The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP, / ˈ m ɪ k m æ p /) is a combat system developed by the United States Marine Corps to combine existing and new hand-to-hand and close quarters combat techniques with morale and team-building functions and instruction in the warrior ethos. [1]
LINE is a close-quarters combat system, derived from various martial arts, utilized by the United States Marine Corps between 1989 and 1998, and then from 1998 to 2007 by US Army Special Forces. [citation needed] It was developed by Ron Donvito, USMC (Retired). [citation needed]
Boarding and close-quarters combat had been a primary means to conclude a naval battle since antiquity, until the early modern period when heavy naval artillery gained tactical primacy at sea. [1] A cutting out boarding is an attack by small boats, preferably at night and against an unsuspecting and anchored, target.
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Captain Gurjinder Singh Suri , (04 July 1974 – 09 November 1999) was an Indian Army officer of 12 Battalion, Bihar Regiment who was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest gallantry award, for exemplary valor in combat during a gunbattle in the Faulad post attack in 1999.Singh was killed in a gun battle in the Gulmarg ...