Pakistan Army Armoured Corps

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Pakistan Armoured Corps
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Active1947;77 years ago (1947)
CountryFlag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
BranchFlag of the Pakistani Army.svg  Pakistan Army
Role Combat and combined arms administrative and staffing oversight.
Size52 regiments [1]
HQ/Garrison Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. [2] [3]
Nickname(s)AC
Men of Steel [4]
Color identificationRed and Yellow
  
Anniversaries1947
Engagements Military history of Pakistan
Commanders
Director-General Maj-Gen. Zafar Iqbal Marwat
Notable
commanders		Lt. Gen. Shah Rafi Alam General Jehangir Karamat
General Shamim Alam Khan   †
Lt-Gen Nadeem Zaki Manj
Lt-Gen Hameed Gul   †
Lt-Gen Gul Hassan Khan   †
Maj-Gen. Bilal Omer Khan   †
Insignia
War flag
Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg

The Pakistan Army Armoured Corps is a military administrative and combined arms service branch of the Pakistan Army. [3]

Contents

Headquartered in Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, the corps is commanded by its director-general, Major-General Zafar Marwat as of 2023. [2]

Overview

The Pakistan Army's armored corps was commissioned as an administrative corps from the partition of the former British Indian Army's Armoured Corps– there were six regiments that formed the basis of the Armoured Corps.: 156  [5] [6]

During the early years, the British Army officers played a crucial role in running the military operations from the Nowshera Cantonment which remains till this day Armoured Corps' headquarter.: 83  [7] Until 1956, the training and field manuals were based on British Army but later adopted U.S. Army's field manual and training, which is continue to be practiced by armoured corps' training school. [8] The School of Armor and Mechanized Warfare trains cadets and officers to be a part of the Armored Corps at the Nowshera Cantonment. [9] The Armored Corps is commanded by the director-general who is usually at two-star active duty rank, Major-General, working directly under the Chief of the General Staff at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi. [8]

The Armoured Corps only has an administrative control over its combat strike brigades and such brigade teams are employed in numbers of strike maneuver corps to defend the national borders of Pakistan from the foreign threats. [10] [11] [12] [13]

Until 2001, the armoured corps was focused towards opposing Indian advances in the east but later stationed its interests in western border to prevent foreign threats coming from Afghanistan. [14]

Regiments in the Corps

Equipment

Armoured Corps regiments are equipped with the following:

See also

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  19. ↑ 6th Lancers is the successor to The Rohilkhand Horse raised in 1857, and the 4th Sikh Irregular Cavalry raised in 1858.
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  23. ↑ 12th Cavalry (Frontier Force) is the successor to 2nd and 5th Regiments of Punjab Cavalry, both raised in 1849.
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