The Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) is currently a collection of ten regular regiments, mostly converted from old horse cavalry regiments, and four Yeomanry regiments of the Territorial Army. It provides the armour capability of the British Army, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle. A regiment is a military unit, larger than a company and smaller than a division. ... In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of England was high, with the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. ... In the United Kingdom the Territorial Army is a part of the British Army composed of reserve units, or part-time soldiers. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... General characteristics Length 8. ... FV107 Scimitar is an armoured reconnaissance vehicle, although sometimes classed as a light tank used by the British Army. ...

Camp flag of the RAC

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History

The RAC was created on 4 April 1939, just before World War II started, by combining the cavalry wing (cavalry units that had mechanised), and the Royal Tank Corps (which was thereupon renamed the Royal Tank Regiment within the new corps). As the war went on, many other units became mechanised and joined this corps. In 1944, the RAC absorbed the Reconnaissance Corps. April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... The term cavalry wing, generally used regarding the military, can mean many things. ... -1... The Royal Tank Regiment is a unit of the British Army (formerly the Tank Corps and Royal Tank Corps). ... This article is about a military unit. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Units

The Royal Armoured Corps is divided into those regiments that operate main battle tanks (armoured regiments) and those that operate reconnaissance tanks (formation reconnaissance regiments) - in the regular army there are five armoured regiments and five FR regiments:

• Regular Army
  • 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - Formation Reconnaissance
  • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) - Armoured
  • The Royal Dragoon Guards - Armoured
  • The Queen's Royal Hussars - Armoured
  • 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) - Formation Reconnaissance
  • The King's Royal Hussars - Armoured
  • The Light Dragoons - Formation Reconnaissance
  • The Queen's Royal Lancers - Formation Reconnaissance
  • 1st Royal Tank Regiment - NBC
  • 2nd Royal Tank Regiment - Armoured

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The Household Cavalry Regiment (consisting of the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals) is not part of the RAC, although it fulfils a similar function. The Household Cavalry Regiment constitutes the fifth formation reconnaissance regiment. The term Household Cavalry is used across the Commonwealth of Nations to describe the cavalry of the Household Divisions. ... The Life Guards is the senior regiment of the British Army. ... The Blues and Royals are a British Army armoured regiment and are part of the Household Cavalry. ...

• Territorial Army
  • The Royal Yeomanry - NBC/MBT crew replacement
  • The Royal Wessex Yeomanry - MBT crew replacement
  • The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry - MBT crew replacement
  • The Queen's Own Yeomanry - Formation Reconnaissance

The Royal Yeomanry (RY) is an armoured regiment of the Territorial Army consisting of five squadrons and a military band, each of which bears the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: A (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron C (Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry) Squadron S... The Royal Wessex Yeomanry is an armoured regiment of the Territorial Army consisting of four squadrons, each of which bears the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: A (Dorset Yeomanry) Squadron B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron The Royal Wessex... The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry is an armoured regiment of the Territorial Army consisting of five squadrons, four of which bear the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: HQ Squadron A (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron D (Duke of... The Queens Own Yeomanry is an armoured regiment of the British Territorial Army consisting of five squadrons, each of which bears the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: A (Ayrshire (Earl of Carricks Own) Yeomanry) Squadron B (North Irish Horse) Squadron C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish...

Related Units

This unit is allied with the following:

• Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
• Royal Australian Armoured Corps
• Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps

The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps (RCAC) is the armoured branch of service of the Canadian Forces Land Force Command (Canadian Army), including regular force and militia regiments. ... 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. ... The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (RNZAC) is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Army and Territorial Force regiments equipped with armoured vehicles in the New Zealand Army. ...

See also

• Structure of the British Army

The structure of the British Army is complex, due to the different origins of its various constituent parts. ...

External link

• Royal Armoured Corps homepage