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Personnel of 1st Battalion, The Rifles on parade in Chepstow, 21 May 2009.
A rifle regiment is a military unit consisting of a regiment of infantry troops armed with rifles and known as riflemen. While all infantry units in modern armies are typically armed with rifled weapons the term is still used to denote regiments that follow the distinct traditions that differentiated them from other infantry units.
Rifles had existed for decades before the formations of the first rifle regiments, but were initially too slow to load and too unreliable for use as practical weapons for mass issue. With improvements in the designs of rifles, the first rifle regiment was raised very late in the 18th century as armies could now equip entire units of troops with these new weapons in preference to earlier firearms such as muskets. Though rifles still took about twice as long to load as a musket the increase in accuracy and change in tactics more than compensated for this delay.
A rifleregiment is a military unit consisting of a regiment of infantry troops armed with rifles and known as riflemen. While all infantry units in modern...
Preobrazhensky Regiment. In 2013, it was recreated for the Russian Armed Forces as a rifleregiment, its name now becoming the 1st Semyonovsky Independent Rifle Regiment...
the 76th Guards RifleRegiment, which was repeatedly renamed and reorganized. The regiment traces its history back to the 75th Naval Rifle Brigade, formed...
BMP-equipped Motorised RifleRegiments. Combat support and combat service support subunits were the same as in Motorised RifleRegiments with the exception...
a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. Prior to 1982 the regiment was known as The Regina RifleRegiment. The Royal Regina Rifles are...
equipment) of September 13, 1939, on the basis of the separate 386th RifleRegiment. Following the German invasion it was moved west and concentrated west...
the 535th RifleRegiment, formed in Chuguev, Kharkov Oblast, Ukraine, in July 1940. From August 8, 1941 to September 14, 1941, the regiment, part of the...
The Baker rifle (officially known as the Pattern 1800 Infantry Rifle) was a flintlock rifle used by the rifleregiments of the British Army during the...
Colonel Vasiliy Shcherbakov. The brigade was formed as the 882nd Motor RifleRegiment, which transferred to the Far East in 1967, and which was converted...
The Maryland and Virginia RifleRegiment, most commonly known as Rawlings' Regiment in period documents, was organized in June 1776 as a specialized light...
2nd Battalion of the 270th RifleRegiment first engaged the Germans in Stalingrad. On 14 August 1942, the 273rd RifleRegiment detached from the division...
3rd Rifle Corps, the division took part in the Soviet Invasion of Poland. Force Composition 469th RifleRegiment 674th RifleRegiment 756th Rifle Regiment...
Pennsylvania Reserves (which still carried the old-fashioned designation of a "rifleregiment") carried them until being mustered out in 1864. The carbine version...
Military District (75 Akatsiya in 2 tank regiments and 1 motor rifleregiment) 81st separate motor rifleregiment from Samara which is a part of the Volga-Ural...
Guards Motor RifleRegiment (Halle) 243rd Guards Motor RifleRegiment (Halle) 244th Guards Motor RifleRegiment (Schlotheim) 28th Tank Regiment (Halle) 54th...
Czechoslovak RifleRegiment was formed in the town of Cognac; it mixed prisoners of war with volunteers living in America. The 22nd Czechoslovak RifleRegiment was...
The 366th Guards Motor RifleRegiment was a motor rifle unit of the Soviet Army and the United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States....
order of battle was as follows: 974th RifleRegiment 976th RifleRegiment 978th RifleRegiment 809th Artillery Regiment The division went into Southern Front...
Soviets. The basis of the division was the 76th Independent Latvian RifleRegiment which was in turn formed from the two Latvian volunteer battalions that...
2nd RifleRegiment, the 1st Separate Local Rifle Battalion reorganized into the 1st battalion of the 3rd RifleRegiment, the 20th Separate Local Rifle Battalion...
the 18th century with the introduction of the rifled musket. By the mid-19th century, entire regiments of riflemen were formed and became the mainstay...
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