Sentence examples for reconnaissance regiments from inspiring English sources

In that role he forcefully advocated for the Army to retain a significant mounted capability, one that would include reconnaissance regiments both motorized and horse-based.

A policy report issued in December 1942 suggested that the tank could be issued to reconnaissance regiments or special light tank regiments raised for specialized operations.

Most of its armoured component was provided by the AMX-10RCs of the cavalry reconnaissance regiments, but a heavy armoured unit, the 4e Régiment de Dragons ("4th Dragoon Regiment") was also sent to the region with a complement of 44 AMX-30B2s.

He became commander of a platoon of tanks in the 10th Reconnaissance Regiment of the First Polish Armoured Division, which fought from Normandy to northern Germany.

The 18th Reconnaissance Regiment of the Polish Land Forces is based in Białystok.

Included in the operation was the brigade, the 6th Airborne Division's reconnaissance regiment, and one of its howitzer batteries.

Together with the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, they headed for Pont Audmer, which was the brigade's final objective.

The 7th Armoured Division armoured reconnaissance regiment, the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars began to reconnoitre the route and the rest of the division departed from Trungy at around 16:00.

At the same time each of the four divisions in the 2nd AIF was authorised a cavalry reconnaissance regiment equipped with light tanks and scout carriers.

Seventeen Locusts were received by the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment in late 1943, but mechanical problems led to the tanks being withdrawn in favour of the Tetrarchs previously used by the regiment.

In addition, the 1st Royal New South Wales Lancers had been established as a light cavalry (reconnaissance) regiment, having converted from horses to armoured vehicles and taking on the role of a motorised machine-gun regiment during the inter-war years.