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The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Army and Army Reserve regiments equipped with armoured vehicles in the Australian Army
Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force. It is part of the Australian Defence Force along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force....
. The corps was formed in 1941 as the Australian Armoured Corps, before being given the Royal prefix in 1948. It is the senior arms corps within the Australian Army.







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The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Army and Army Reserve regiments equipped with armoured vehicles in the Australian Army
Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force. It is part of the Australian Defence Force along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force....
. The corps was formed in 1941 as the Australian Armoured Corps, before being given the Royal prefix in 1948. It is the senior arms corps within the Australian Army.

Current units

  • Regular Army
    • 1st Armoured Regiment - Armoured
    • 2nd Cavalry Regiment - Reconnaissance
    • B Squadron, 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment - Light Armoured
    • 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry)
      2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment

      The 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment is a regiment of the Australian Army and forms part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. The regiment was formed in 1930 and is currently an armoured reconnaissance unit equipped with ASLAVs....
       - Reconnaissance
  • Army Reserve
    • 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers
      1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers

      The 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers is a current Australian Army Reserve Light Cavalry Regiment. The regiment is based at Lancer Barracks in Parramatta, New South Wales....
       - Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
    • 3rd/9th South Australia Mounted Rifles - Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
    • 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse
      4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse

      The 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse is a regiment of the Australian Army. Part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, 4/19 PWLH is a reserve regiment which has recently been re-roled with modified Landrovers as part of the Light Cavalry restructure of the reserve component of the RAAC....
       - Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
    • A Squadron, 10th Light Horse Regiment
      Australian 10th Light Horse Regiment

      The Australian 10th Light Horse Regiment is a regiment of the Australian Army. Part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, the regiment is part of the army reserve....
       - Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
    • 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers
      12th/16th Hunter River Lancers

      The 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers is an Australian Army Reserve light armoured regiment. The regiment was formed on 1 May 1948 and is currently equipped with Bushmaster IMVs....
       - Light Armoured


Equipment

The RAAC is primarily equipped with three types of vehicle:
  • M1A1 Abrams - the Abrams is Australia's main battle tank (MBT), and equips 1st Armoured Regiment.


  • ASLAV
    ASLAV

    The Australian Light Armoured Vehicle , is an Australian version of the LAV-25 designed and manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems Canada for the United States Marine Corps....
     - the ASLAV is a variant of the LAV II vehicle designed specifically for the Australian Army, and is used in the armoured reconnaissance role with 2nd Cavalry Regiment and 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment.


  • Bushmaster
    Bushmaster IMV

    The Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle or Infantry Mobility Vehicle is an Australian-built wheeled armoured vehicle. It was originally designed by Perry Engineering in Adelaide with some technical support from Irish company Timoney Technology Ltd....
     – the Bushmaster IMV is an Australian-built wheeled armoured vehicle that is used in the Infantry Mobility role with the 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment as well as the Cavalry role with the 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers.


  • Landrover - Re-equipped Land Rover 6x6 LRPV used in the Light Cavalry/Reconnaissance role of the Reserve forces.


M113 - the M113 is an armoured personnel carrier
Armoured personnel carrier

Armoured personnel carriers are armoured fighting vehicles developed to transport infantry on the battlefield. They usually have only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortar ....
 that served in the light armoured and armoured reconnaissance roles primarily with Reserve forces, it is now used in support roles in some Regiments.

Deployments

  • Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
     (British Commonwealth Occupation Force) : 1946-1949
  • South Vietnam
    South Vietnam

    South Vietnam refers to an internationally recognized state which governed Vietnam south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone until 1975. Its capital was Saigon and its origin can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina, which consisted of the southern third of Vietnam....
     : 1965-1971
  • Somalia
    Somalia

    Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
     : 1993
  • Rwanda
    Rwanda

    The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
     : 1994
  • East Timor
    East Timor

    East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro Island and Jaco , and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor....
     : 1999 - Present
  • Iraq
    Iraq

    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
     : 2003 - Present
  • Afghanistan
    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
     : 2006 - Present


See also

  • List of Australian armoured units
    List of Australian armoured units

    This is a list of all of the armoured units formed by the Australian Army...
  • Royal Armoured Corps
    Royal Armoured Corps

    The Royal Armoured Corps is currently a collection of ten regular regiments, mostly converted from old Cavalry regiments of the British Army, and four Yeomanry regiments of the Territorial Army....
  • Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
    Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

    The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps is the armoured branch of service of the Canadian Forces Land Force Command , including regular force and reserve regiments....
  • Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps
    Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps

    The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Force and Territorial Force units equipped with armoured vehicles in the New Zealand Army....
  • Australian Armoured Units of World War II
    Australian Armoured Units of World War II

    Armoured units made a relatively small, but important, contribution to Australia?s war effort during World War II. While Australia formed three armoured divisions and two independent armoured brigades during the war, Australian armoured units only saw action as independent regiments and companies supporting larger infantry formations....