Support

The Support kit is one of playable kits in the games Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Battlefield 2142, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Battlefield 3. Its main role is to re-supply friendly teammates and provide heavy suppressive fire for the team. The Support kit acts as a Medic in Battlefield: Bad Company.

Overview
Support forces, unlike Assault and Engineer, have a defensive role rather than the attacking role. Support's lack of mobility and accuracy is compensated with extreme firepower, using belt-fed Light Machine Guns, useful for suppressing fire, making the enemy think twice before subjecting himself to death while friendly forces move forward or when a friendly base is under attack. They also carry a handgun, useful for close quarters combat or when the LMG's magazine/box is out of ammunition. Besides the defensive role, Support is also tasked to keep friendlies resupplied, with throwable ammo boxes that automatically regenerate ammunition to any players nearby.

Battlefield 2

 * Handgun (varies by team)
 * Light Machine Gun (varies by team)
 * 4 M67 Hand Grenades
 * Infinite ammo bags (replenished over time)

Battlefield 2142

 * Combat Knife
 * Standard Issued Pistol (varies by team)
 * Default Light Machine Gun (varies by team), or Semi-Shotgun, or Heavy Machine Gun (Ganz)
 * Ammo box (infinite use)
 * Frag Grenades (when unlocked by all kits)


 * Choice of 2 unlockables


 * -Sentry turret - EMP Grenades - Deployable laser defense shield - Heartbeat scanner (shows enemy positions in HUD at time of scan) - radar scanner (shows current enemy positions in a small radius on the minimap) - RDX shotgun launcher (fires small RDX rounds for destroying explosives from a distance)

Battlefield: Bad Company

 * Combat Knife
 * Light Machine Gun (faction default or unlockable)
 * Infinite Medkits (replenished over a short time)
 * Mortar Strike (unlockable)
 * Power Tool (default)

Battlefield 3

 * Combat Knife
 * Handgun
 * Light Machine Gun (M27/RPK-74 by default)
 * Ammunition Box
 * C4 charges or M18 Claymore mines
 * M224 Mortar
 * M67 Grenade (can carry more with Extra Grenades specialization)

Trivia

 * Even though the Spetsnaz Support wears short sleeves, from a first-person perspective, it looks rather more like long sleeves. The same goes for the Assault class in the USMC side except the other way around.