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Royal Australian Armoured Corps

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Active
  
9 July 1941 – Present

Branch
  
Australian Army

Role
  
Armoured fighting vehicle

Country
  
Australia

Type
  
Corps

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Size
  
4 Regular Regiments5 Reserve Regiments

Colonel-in-Chief
  
HRH The Prince of Wales

Similar
  
Royal Australian Army Me, Royal Australian Corps of, Royal Australian Army Nur, Royal Australian Engineers, Australian Army

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The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is a corps of the Australian Army. The corps was formed on 9 July 1941 as the Australian Armoured Corps to provide personnel to use Armoured Fighting Vehicles. The corps has its origins in the Australian Tank Corps, which was formed in 1928. The RAAC is the senior arms corps within the army and was granted the Royal prefix in 1948. Units of the RAAC have included tank, reconnaissance and armoured personnel-carrier regiments.

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Current units

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  • Regular Army
  • 1st Armoured Regiment – Armoured / Reconnaissance
  • 2nd Cavalry Regiment – Armoured / Reconnaissance
  • 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) – Armoured / Reconnaissance
  • School of Armour – Training Regiment
  • Army Reserve
  • 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
  • 3rd/9th Light Horse (South Australia Mounted Rifles) – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
  • B Squadron, 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment – Inactive
  • 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
  • A Squadron, 10th Light Horse Regiment – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
  • 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers – Light Armoured

    • Equipment

    The RAAC is primarily equipped with five types of vehicle:

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  • M1A1 Abrams – the Abrams is Australia's main battle tank (MBT), and equips the 1st Armoured and 2nd Cavalry Regiments.
  • ASLAV – the ASLAV is a variant of the LAV 25 vehicle designed specifically for the Australian Army, and is used in the armoured reconnaissance role with the 1st Armoured, 2nd Cavalry and 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiments.
  • M113AS4 – the M113AS4 is an upgraded M113 armoured personnel carrier and equips the 1st Armoured, 2nd Cavalry and 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiments.
  • Bushmaster PMV – the Bushmaster is used to provide protected lift by the light cavalry regiments.
  • Land Rover Perentie – 4x4 and 6x6 versions of the Land Rover are used in the reconnaissance role by the light cavalry regiments.

    • Deployments

  • Japan: 1946–49
  • Vietnam: 1965–71
  • East Timor: 1999–Present
  • Iraq: 2003–08
  • Afghanistan: 2006–Present


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    References

    Royal Australian Armoured Corps Wikipedia
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