Editing Squad (section)

===Soviet Union===
In the [[Soviet Armed Forces]], a motorised rifle squad was mounted in either a [[BTR (vehicle)|BTR]] [[armoured personnel carrier]] or [[Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty|BMP]] [[infantry fighting vehicle]], with the former being more numerous by the late 1980s.  BTR rifle squads consisted of a squad leader/BTR commander, senior rifleman/assistant squad leader, a machine gunner armed with an [[RPK-74]], a grenadier armed with an [[RPG-7]], a rifleman/assistant grenadier, a rifleman/medic, a rifleman, a BTR driver/mechanic and a BTR machine gunner.

BMP rifle squads consisted of a squad leader/BMP commander, assistant squad leader/BMP gunner, a BMP driver/mechanic, a machine gunner armed with an RPK-74, a grenadier armed with an RPG-7, a rifleman/assistant grenadier, a rifleman/medic, a senior rifleman and a rifleman all armed with [[AKM]]s or [[AK-74]]s.  Within a [[platoon]] the rifleman in one of the squads was armed with an [[Dragunov sniper rifle|SVD sniper rifle]].  In both BTR and BMP squads the vehicle's gunner and driver stayed with the vehicle while the rest of the squad dismounted.<ref>US Army, [https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm100-2-3.pdf ''FM 100-2-3 The Soviet Army: Troops, Organization and Equipment''], 4–3</ref>