ABSTRACT
The rapid development of tactics is connected with the extensive adoption of aircraft, particularly helicopters, by troops. While these aircraft remained a means of the air forces and were used as transport and auxiliary vehicles, their influence on tactics was limited. The foreign press talks a great deal about the use of helicopters as antitank weapons. The use of helicopters to cross water barriers is of considerable tactical significance, according to foreign specialists. Helicopters enable the problems of concentrating water-crossing equipment, laying bridges, seizing the opposite bank and fighting advancing enemy reserves to be solved at high tempo and in a new fashion. Helicopters may help solve another tactical problem. Missile and artillery systems capable of delivering to a given region small but very destructive antitank and antipersonnel mines have been undergoing development abroad. The mass introduction of helicopters has caused substantial changes in tactics.
