Fire-and-manoeuvre team

See also: Fireteam

A fire-and-manoeuvre team or fire and maneuver team (Finnish: taistelupari, literally battle pair; Swedish: stridspar, literally combat pair; Ukrainian: бойова пара/двійка/трійка, literally combat pair/deuce/triple) is the smallest unit above the individual soldier, in the modern era chiefly employed by Baltic militaries and special forces like the Special Air Service. It consists of two soldiers with one soldier acting as senior of the two fighters (decided amongst the two or by their superior).

It is allowed that if a soldier does not have a partner, he becomes the third member of the team. In practice, this means that two of the three soldiers act in sync: they maneuver together while the third one covers them with fire, and together they cover the maneuver of the third one with fire.


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