I used to think that small arms could never cause friendly fire in this game, but it seems they can, and I'm not talking about ricochets. If the shooting unit does not spot the friendly unit, small-calibre area fire will kill friendlies.
Try it out in a night battle, order your tank to machinegun some distant field and then send in some infantry. If the tank doesn't spot the infantry, the infantry will take casualties. Then order your tank to fire machineguns at friendly infantry that is v