Royal Armoured Corps (Gallambria)

Royal Armoured Corps
Country	Gallambria
Branch	Gallambrian Army
Type	Army Armoured corps
Role	Armoured
Size	Currently: 6 armoured regiments 10 armoured cavalry regiments 3 reserve regiments
Nickname(s)	"The Black Hats"
Commanders
Head of Corps	Brigadier Steven Mills
Colonel-in-Chief	The Princess Royal

The Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) is a Corps of the Gallambrian Army which provides the Gallambrian Armed Forces' armour capability. Armour combines firepower, mobility, protection and networked situational awareness to generate shock action and overmatch in close combat. Armour is an essential element of the combined arms approach that is employed by the Gallambrian Army.

Role

The role of the Royal Armoured Corps is to locate, identify, destroy or capture the enemy, by day or night, in combination with other arms, using fire and manoeuvre.

Organisation

To perform this role and associated functions RAC units are organised as either:

• Heavy Armoured - contains three tank squadrons and one support squadron.
• Armoured Cavalry - contains three cavalry squadrons and one support squadron, which provides mounted close combat, reconnaissance, surveillance and security to a Combat Brigade.
• Light Cavalry - contains light cavalry and protected mobility squadrons, which provide mounted and dismounted reconnaissance, surveillance and protected mobility to a Combat Brigade.

Equipment

RAC Units are equipped primarily with the following vehicle types:

• Taipan M3A7 - The Taipan is Gallambria's Main Battle Tank (MBT), which equips Regular Army armoured regiments. The Taipan MBT is due to be replaced by the Malya MBT, pending final operational capability testing and on-going investigations into corruption within the Defence procurement agency, Capability and Sustainment Group.
• Gallambrian Service Light Armoured Vehicle (GSLAV) - The GSLAV is Gallambria's Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle (CRV), which equips Regular Army regiments. The GSLAV will be replaced by the Karrek AMV from 2020.
• M3A5R Walan - The Walan is Gallambria's Armoured recovery vehicle (ARV)
• Manida H-PMV - The Manida is Gallambria's Heavy Protected Mobility Vehicle (H-PMV) which is used to proved protected lift by Army Reserve regiments.

Training

The School of Armour provides mounted combat training to soldiers in the Gallambrian Army and selected individuals from abroad. It designs and executes both tactical and technical training for armoured crew who specialise in either the Armoured, Cavalry or Armoured Mobility career streams. Training at the School of Armour is conducted in the following wings:

• Communications Wing
• Corps Training Wing
• Driving and Servicing Wing
• Gunnery Wing
• Tactics Wing
• Combat Command Wing

Current Units

Regular Army

• 1st Light Dragoons
• 2nd Light Dragoons
• 3rd Light Dragoons
• King's Dragoon Guards
• Queen's Dragoon Guards
• Royal Dragoon Guards
• King's Royal Lancers
• Queen's Royal Lancers
• Duke of Wessex's Own Lancers
• 1st Armoured Regiment
• 2nd Armoured Regiment
• 3rd Armoured Regiment
• 4th Armoured Regiment

Army Reserve

• 1st Gallambrian Light Horse (Kingsland Mounted Rifles)
• 2nd/15th Gallambrian Light Horse (Cambrian Mounted Rifles)
• 3rd Gallambrian Light (Mercian Mounted Rifles)

Preceded by Royal Horse Artillery

Gallambrian Army Order of Precedence

Succeeded by Royal Artillery