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An armoured corps (also mechanized corps or tank corps) is a specialized military organization whose role is to conduct armoured warfare. The units belonging to an armoured corps include military staff, and are equipped with tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, as well as supporting vehicles.

The term may refer to two different types of organizations:

  1. A state's top-level branch of the army which serves as the umbrella for all of its specialized armoured formations
  2. Any of the corps-sized formations within a ground forces that are composed chiefly of military units serving in the armoured role

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Armoured corps

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An armoured corps (also mechanized corps or tank corps) is a specialized military organization whose role is to conduct armoured warfare. The units belonging...

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Indian Army Armoured Corps

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Army Armoured Corps is one of the combat arms of the Indian Army. Tracing its origins from the first regiment formed in 1776, the present corps was formed...

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Royal Armoured Corps

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The Royal Armoured Corps is the armoured arm of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles...

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Royal Australian Armoured Corps

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The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is an administrative corps of the Australian Army. It provides the Australian Defence Force's Armour capability...

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Pakistan Army Armoured Corps

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The Pakistan Army Armoured Corps is a military administrative and combined arms service branch of the Pakistan Army. Headquartered in Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...

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Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

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The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps (RCAC; French: Corps blindé royal canadien) is the armoured corps within the Canadian Army, including 3 Regular and 18...

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Rhodesian Armoured Corps

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The Rhodesian Armoured Corps, nicknamed the "Black Devils" — was the only standing armoured battalion of the Rhodesian Security Forces. During World War...

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Bovington Camp

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training for soldiers of the Royal Armoured Corps and trade training for the Household Cavalry Regiment as well as other armoured units. It also houses The Tank...

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Royal Tank Regiment

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it is the armoured regiment of the British Army's 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as the Tank Corps and the Royal Tank Corps, it is part...

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Corps

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military service (such as an artillery corps, an armoured corps, a signal corps, a medical corps, a marine corps, or a corps of military police) or; in some...

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Indian Army cap badges

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Armoured Corps 9th Horse (Deccan Horse) 17 Horse (Poona Horse) 62 Cavalry Army Air Defence Army Aviation Corps Army Dental Corps Army Education Corps...

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Sri Lanka Armoured Corps

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The Sri Lanka Armoured Corps (SLAC) provides the armour capability of the Sri Lanka Army, with vehicles such as the T-55AM2, and type 80/88 main battle...

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Indian Armoured Corps

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The Indian Armoured Corps was a unit of the British Empire's Indian Army. The Corps was formed on 1 May 1941 to administer existing armoured units within...

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Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps

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New Zealand Armoured Corps (RNZAC) is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Force and Territorial Force units equipped with armoured vehicles in the...

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Guards Armoured Division

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Operation Overlord as part of VIII Corps. Its first major engagement was Operation Goodwood, the attack by three armoured divisions towards Bourguebus Ridge...

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XXXXI Panzer Corps

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XXXXI Panzer Corps (also written as: XLI Panzer Corps) was a Panzer (armoured) corps in the German Army during World War II. The corps was originally...

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General der Panzertruppe

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General der Panzertruppe (lit. 'General of the Armoured Corps') was a General of the branch rank of the German Army, introduced in 1935. A General der...

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Cavalry regiments of the British Army

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currently nine regular cavalry regiments, two serve as armoured regiments, three as armoured cavalry regiments, three as light cavalry, and one as a...

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The Tank Museum

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combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps and is a registered charity. The writer Rudyard Kipling visited Bovington...

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List of serving generals of the Pakistan Army

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of the officers, AC – Armoured Corps ARTY – Regiment of Artillery AAD – Army Air Defence ENGRS – Corps of Engineers SIGS – Corps of Signals INF – Infantry...

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Reconnaissance Corps

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1942, the Corps changed to the cavalry descriptions of regiments, squadrons and troops. The Corps became part of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) in 1944...

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Armoured reconnaissance

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Armoured reconnaissance is the combination of terrestrial reconnaissance with armoured warfare by soldiers using tanks and wheeled or tracked armoured...

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Avraham Adan

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operations officer of the Armoured Corps and later the commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade as well as the Armoured Corps School. During the Third Arab–Israeli...

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Military beret

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silver-coloured badges. Berets in Bolivian Army: Black – Paratroopers Maroon – Armoured Corps Green – Special Operations Forces, Commandos Camouflage – Special Forces...

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Panzer corps

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A panzer corps (German: Panzerkorps) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The name was introduced in 1941, when...

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