star trek ground combat (unfinished)

Ground combat

Infantry Equipment

Starfleet uses phaser rifles and hand phasers as primary firearms. Tricoders are used as personal sensors.

During DS9, we see more of Federation infantry equipment, like smoke grenades (seen here at 7:05 to 7:42), armor tunic (DS9 "Nor the Battle to the Strong"), and we hear about personal forcefields (althought we only see makeshift forcefield in "A Fistful of Data"), photon grenades (heard about in TNG "Legacy" and DS9 "Homefront").

Some kind of armor tunic was also used by 22nd century MACOs, as seen here.

We also see spatial charges in VOY: "Dark Frontier".

Starship close quarters combat

During TNG, ship security mainly used type-2 phasers; after Dominion War (in FC and Nemesis) we saw Security personell using Type-3 phasers, or phaser rifles, which were ergonomically better than previous generation of rifles, seen during Dominion War (which actually seemed to be short-range carbine). Both Type-3 designs had rapid-fire ability, similar to USS Defiant's pulse phased cannons. Security force on starship seems to be relatively small to moderate, maybe up to 100 personnell.
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Close air support

"Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. " - Erwin Rommel


If you watch Attack of the Clones, Battle of Geonosis part, you will notice that while Separatist Hailfire (sorry if I spelled wrong) droids had great success against Republic walkers, republic gunships quickly destroyed them, demonstrating importance of air superiority.
While Federation des not seem to posses dedicated atmospheric craft (with exception of "hoppers", which seem to be some kind of lightly-armored transport craft), Federation Attack fighters might be very effective in close support role, due to their heavy armament and high precision.

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Explosives

In "A time to stand" 90 isotons of rich ultrilitium is said to be able to "take care of storage facility and everything else within 800 kilometers). Explosion completely shattered asteroid, which had volume of around 10 000 000 cubic meters. That gives us yield of 10 kilotons; given that explosive was near one side of asteroid, actual yield of explosion might be around 90 kilotons.

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Troop movement (interstellar)

In Waltz, we hear about Federation troop convoy, carrying over 30 000 troops, that required escort after they exited Badlands, since "without Defiant they were helpless." That seems to imply specialized transport ships.

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Capital ship support

In TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom" we have away team in possibly hostile environment (which is later confirmed to be hostile) maintaining all-time communications link with starship in orbit.

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