Armoured corps explained

An armoured corps (also mechanized corps or tank corps) is a specialized military organization whose role is to conduct armoured warfare. The units belonging to an armoured corps include military staff, and are equipped with tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, as well as supporting vehicles.

The term may refer to two different types of organizations:

1. A state's top-level branch of the army which serves as the umbrella for all of its specialized armoured formations
2. Any of the corps-sized formations within a ground forces that are composed chiefly of military units serving in the armoured role

List of armoured corps

The armoured, tank, or mechanized corps of various nations' armed forces during different time periods include:

• Royal Australian Armoured Corps
• Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
  • Bangladesh Armoured Corps British Indian Armoured Corps (until 1947)
• Indian Army Armoured Corps
• Armoured Corps (Pakistan)
• Israeli Armored Corps
• Egyptian Armored Corps
• Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps
• Pakistan Armoured Corps
• Panzerwaffe, Nazi Germany
• Russian Tank Troops
• Sri Lanka Armoured Corps
• Swedish Armoured Troops
• Royal Armoured Corps, United Kingdom
• Ukrainian Armoured Forces
• Armor Branch, United States

Corps-sized armoured formations

Armoured, tank, or mechanized corps-sized formations (typically composed of divisions and belonging to a field army), include:

• Malaysian Royal Armoured Corps
• Rhodesian Armoured Corps
• Mechanised corps (Soviet Union)
• Tank Corps (Soviet Union), a type of Red Army formation used up to World War II
• Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces, a United States unit in World War I
• Tank Corps, National Army, a stateside United States unit during World War I
• I Armored Corps (United States)
• Tank Corps, later Royal Tank Corps, early name of the Royal Tank Regiment (UK)

See also

• Armoured warfare
• Panzer corps
• Mechanized corps