Royal Australian Armoured Corps
The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is a corps in 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 include tank regiments, reconnaissance regiments and armoured personnel-carrier regiments.
Current units
- 1st Armoured Regiment – Armoured
- 2nd Cavalry Regiment – Reconnaissance
- 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) – Reconnaissance
- School of Armour – Training Regiment
- 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
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