The YouTube channel Battle Order details the tables of organization and equipment of military units around the world.

The channel has only 234,000 subscribers, but some of its segments garner more views than that number. An episode from mid-January on Ukrainian mechanized infantry from squad to brigade level, and a bit on higher echelons, had attracted 237,000 views by early February.

As you’d expect, Ukrainian mechanized infantry TOE resembles that of Russian motor rifle units and formations. Ukrainian nine-soldier squads are a little less well equipped, but generally comparable. For instance, most of them have two RPK, magazine-fed light machine guns, based upon AK assault rifles, rather than belt-fed PKP general purpose machine guns.

American light infantry platoons of three rifle squads and a weapons squad have two Javelin anti-tank guided missile launchers. Few if any other armies can afford to assign Javelins organically to squads and platoons. Ukraine concentrates them in 27-missile launcher batteries, the artillery equivalent of infantry companies, the level above platoon.

This powerful battery can be held in brigade anti-tank reserve or its three nine-missile platoons can be attached down to battalions, the echelon above companies. Thus a mechanized company might be reinforced by a three-missile launcher anti-tank squad, enough for one Javelin per squad. Concentrating scarce, potent Western assets like the Javelin makes sense for Ukraine. These weapons can thus be used where they can do the most good.