He summarized combined-arms tactics as the way to get the mobile and motorized armoured divisions to work together and support each other in order to achieve decisive success.

To achieve a breakout, armoured forces would attack the enemy's defensive line directly, supported by motorized infantry, artillery fire and aerial bombardment, in order to create a breach in the enemy's line.

The armoured and motorized forces were halted, by Hitler, outside the port city of Dunkirk, which was being used to evacuate the Allied forces.

At the time of Operation Market-Garden, the 10th SS Panzer Division had an approximate strength of 3, 000 men ; an armoured infantry regiment, divisional reconnaissance battalion, two artillery battalions and an engineer battalion, all partially motorized.

Kampfgruppe Peiper, named after and under the command of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Joachim Peiper, was composed of armoured and motorized elements and was the spearhead of the left wing of the 6th SS Panzer Army.

He summarized the tactics of blitzkrieg as the way to get the mobile and motorized armoured divisions to work together and support each other in order to achieve decisive success.

The 4th battalion first became a motorized battalion in 1940 and then an armoured battalion in 1943.

Two additional brigades had recently been converted to motorized and armoured units, but they retained their cavalry traditions.

To encircle and destroy the Polish forces, the Germans engaged most of their own 10th Army, including two armoured, one motorized, and three light divisions, equipped with some 800 tanks altogether.

From the 1960s to 2004 the regiment had responsibility for three armoured battalions, one reconnaissance battalion and three motorized infantry battalions.

: Reaction Force Brigade-The reaction force had a motorized brigade composed of three infantry battalions, an armoured car regiment, and an artillery battalion.

In modern armoured warfare, armoured units equipped with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles serve the historic role of both the battle cavalry, light cavalry and dragoons, and belong to the armoured branch.

There is little doubt that the hilly, heavily wooded Ardennes could have been relatively easily defended by the Allies, even against the bulk of the German armoured units.

Many Allied operations in the Western Desert and on the Eastern Front relied on massive concentrations of firepower to establish breakthroughs by fast-moving armoured units.

In 1938 the process of mechanism began with the conversion of a full cavalry brigade ( two Indian regiments and one British ) to armoured car and tank units.

Dragoon regiments were converted to motorised infantry ( trucks and motor cycles ), and cuirassiers to armoured units ; while light cavalry ( Chasseurs a ' Cheval, Hussars and Spahis ) remained as mounted sabre squadrons.

After World War II the dragoon regiments were reorganized as armoured reconnaissance units.

Both regiments are, presently, armoured units.

Since Ritchie had virtually no armoured units left fit to fight, the infantry positions would be defeated in detail.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

This convention is becoming widespread ; for example the French Army has " Motorisées " units equipped with the wheeled VAB and " Mécanisées " ( armoured ) units with the tracked AMX-10P.

In the late 1960s, Ze ' evi formed the elite Sayeret Kharuv, an anti-terror battalion, at the time when IDF Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev had begun to focus manpower and budget on armoured tank units, resulting in huge cutbacks in infantry forces.

Since the Army XXI reform in 2004, the basic structure of the Land Forces has been reorganised in the following units: infantry brigades ( 2 and 5 ); mountain infantry brigades ( 9 and 12 ); armoured brigades ( 1 and 11 ).

The last units of British heavy cavalry switched to using armoured vehicles as late as 1938.

While the German Blitzkrieg doctrine called for combined-arms action, which required fire support for armoured units, during the invasion of Poland and France this was provided by the Luftwaffe using Stuka dive-bombers effectively acting as artillery.

By fighting lifetimes of war, they discovered that heavily armoured spear infantry was very effective in breaking apart thickly defended areas and charging cavalry units.

Italy's army had outmoded artillery and the armoured units used outdated formations not suited to modern warfare.

The right wing of the Army would be the assault force, composed primarily of armoured units, which would force a crossing of the Maas and attempt to break through to the Ruhr industrial area near Roermond.

In time the US Army in Vietnam also learned to combine helicopter operations and airmobile infantry with the armoured and artillery units operating from fire support bases as well as the US brown-water navy and USAF Close Air Support units supporting them.

In late August and throughout September and October 1937, the Chinese forces were bombarded continuously by the guns of the Japanese navy, by carrier-based bombers, by land-based bombers operating from Japanese-occupied Taiwan, and by armoured units of the Japanese marines and army.

The term Panzergrenadier was adopted in the German Wehrmacht to describe mechanized heavy infantry elements whose greater protection and mobility allowed them to keep pace with ( and provide intimate protection to ) armoured units and formations.

The brothers were assassinated together in the back of an armoured personnel carrier with a bayonet and revolver by Captain Nguyễn Văn Nhung, under orders from Dương Văn Minh, while en route to the Vietnamese Joint General Staff headquarters.

In the night of 24 August 1944, as the Île de la Cité was taken by an advance column of French and Allied armoured troops and elements of the Resistance, it was the tolling of the Emmanuel that announced to the city that its liberation was under way.

Macmillan travelled up and down the country to co-ordinate production, working with some success under Lord Beaverbrook to increase the supply and quality of armoured vehicles.

A typical battalion group consists of an infantry or armoured battalion with sub-units detached from other military units acting under the direct command of the battalion commander.

Fighting lasted from 28 June until 5 July, when the National Army troops brought artillery up to point blank range, under the cover of armoured cars, to bombard the republican-held buildings.

The leading troops of this Parliamentarian wing were a fully armoured regiment of cuirassiers, the London lobsters under Sir Arthur Haselrig.

By the time Major Mills got his men back under control, the police had fired 114 rounds of rifle ammunition, and an unknown amount of revolver ammunition as well, not counting 50 rounds fired from the machine guns in the armoured car outside the Park.

Germany's panzer ( armoured ) forces were raised and organized under his direction as Chief of Mobile Forces.

This was refused by the Chief of Staff — Vice Admiral Doveton Sturdee — who instead agreed to place only lighter forces ; " Cruiser Force K " under Rear Admiral Gordon Moore consisting of two battlecruisers and to the northwest, and " Cruiser Force C " a squadron of five Cressy-class armoured cruisers —,,, and — west.

The Treaty of 1936 called for the Egyptian army to fight under British command in the event of war and to supplement the limited force then at his disposal — an armoured division then being formed ( later to be the 7th Armoured Division ) and eight British battalions.

The CV 90 has also been fitted with the advanced mortar system under the name Grkpbv 90120 ( granatkastarpansarbandvagn, " tracked armoured mortar vehicle ") or formerly SSG 120 ( Splitterskyddad granatkastare, " lightly armoured mortar ").

The ship could be designed so that under the armoured deck were the engines, boilers and magazines, and enough displacement to keep the ship afloat and stable even in the event of damage.

* Tank-originally a code name adopted in 1915 by the British government for the first tracked armoured vehicles, which were then under development

In the summer of 1915 the RNACD was disbanded and the army took over control of armoured cars, with the units soon coming under the command of the Motor Branch of the Machine Gun Corps.

However RNAS experience of the Western Front would not be lost, No. 20 Squadron RNAS was retained under Naval control to further develop armoured vehicles for land battle, these personnel later becoming the nucleus of the team working under the Landships Committee that developed the first tanks.

Foreign light tanks continued to be delivered under Lend-Lease, but domestic production would be replaced by cheaper armoured cars and the plentiful SU-76M self-propelled gun, which was simpler but packed a bigger high-explosive punch.

P. Fraccaro's interpretation of the so-called Servian reforms to the army suggests that under king Servius Tullius ( traditional reign dates 578-535 BC ), the hoplite ( armoured ) infantry was also doubled in size to a single legion of 6, 000, which, together with 2, 400 velites ( unarmoured infantry ) and 600 cavalry adds up to a total regal levy of 9, 000 iuniores ( men of military age: aged 16 to 45 ).

Major Sebastien Morley resigned after four soldiers under his command were killed whilst serving in the Army's Snatch Land Rovers which are lightly armoured and cannot withstand roadside bombs ; the Snatches have been described as ' mobile coffins ' by the soldiers.

Accordingly, they could heavily defeat the Swiss if their pike column could be disorganized so that the rodeleros could dash under the unwieldy pikes of the Swiss and stab the lightly armoured, shieldless Swiss infantry.

The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division with the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade under command landed in two brigade groups, the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade and the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade, Each Brigade had three Infantry Battalions and an armoured regiment in support, 2 artillery field regiments, combat engineer companies and extra units from the 79th Armoured Division.

Although reorganized as an armoured brigade, no motor battalion served under command.