An armoured corps (also mechanized corps or tank corps) is a specialized

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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: # A state's top-level branch of the ground forces which serves as the umbrella for all of its specialized armoured formations # 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 branches of ground forces

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 The Indian Armoured Corps was a unit of the British Empire's Indian Army. The Corps was formed on 1 May 1941 to administer existing armoured units within the Indian Army. Its headquarters was located at Ferozepore. Upon partition in 1947, the unit's ...

(to 1947) * Indian Army Armoured Corps (from 1947) *

Israeli Armored Corps , ''Ha'adam she'Ba Tank Ye'na'tzeah'') , song= , mascot= , equipment= , equipment_label= , battles= * War of Independence * Sinai War * Six-Day War * War of Attrition * Yom Kippur War * First Lebanon War * First Intifada * Second Intifada * Se ...

Egyptian Armored Corps The Egyptian Armoured Corps is a branch of the Egyptian Army and the second main Corps responsible for Armoured operations. It was established after the Egyptian Cavalry Corps was converted to use vehicles, after 1930. History In 1922, the Ki ...

* Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps *

Pakistan Armoured Corps The Armoured Corps ( ur, ﺁرمرڈ كور) of the Pakistan Army is a combat branch tasked with armoured warfare. Equipped with more than 3,742 main battle tanks, the corps is headquartered in the garrison town of Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. T ...

Sri Lanka Armoured Corps The Sri Lanka Armoured Corps (SLAC) provides the armour capability of the Sri Lanka Army, with vehicles such as the T-55AM2, and type 80/88 main battle tanks; the BMP infantry fighting vehicle; and the BTR-80, and WZ551 armoured personnel carri ...

* Swedish Armoured Troops * Royal Armoured Corps, United Kingdom

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 The Rhodesian Armoured Corps, nicknamed the "Black Devils" — was the only standing armoured battalion of the Rhodesian Security Forces. During World War II, it took part in the Allied Spring 1945 offensive and the Battle of Monte Cassino as ...

* Mechanised corps (Soviet Union) **

1st Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 1st Mechanized Corps was a mechanized corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. World War II 1st Formation Initially formed in March 1940 it was attached to the Leningrad Military District, and held in reserve near the Psko ...

2nd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 2nd Mechanised Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. First formation (June 1940 – Aug 1941) Initially formed in June 1940 in response the German victories of 1940 it was attached to the Odessa Military ...

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4th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 4th Mechanized Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Operation Barbarossa Initially formed in January 1941, it was serving with the 6th Army, Kiev Special Military District under the command of General Ma ...

** 6th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) ** 8th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) ** 9th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) **

10th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 10th Mechanized Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. First formation Initially formed in March 1941 in response the German victories of 1940 it was attached to the Leningrad Military District, & held in ...

12th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 12th Mechanized Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Formed in March 1941 in response to the German victories in the West, it served with the 8th Army and was held in reserve near Šiauliai in Lithuania 7 ...

21st Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 21st Mechanized Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Initially formed in March 1941, in response to the German victories in the West it was attached to the newly forming 27th Army, and held in reserve nea ...

24th Mechanised Corps The 24th Mechanized Corps (Military Unit Number 7161) was a mechanized corps of the Red Army, active from spring 1941 to late 1941. On June 22, 1941, at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, it was located at Proskurov in the Kiev Special Milit ...

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5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union) The 5th Mechanised Corps was a mechanised corps of the Red Army, formed on three occasions. It was first formed in 1934 and was converted into the 15th Tank Corps in 1938. It was reformed in the Far East in 1940 and moved west before the Germa ...

1st Guards Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 1st Guards 'Vienna' Order of Lenin Order of Kutuzov Mechanized Corps was a Red Army armoured formation that saw service during World War II on the Eastern Front. After the war it continued to serve with Soviet occupation forces in Central E ...

** 2nd Guards Mechanised Corps ** 6th Guards Mechanised Corps ** 6th Guards Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) **

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**5th Guards Mechanised Corps *Tank Corps (Soviet), a type of Red Army formation used up to World War II * Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Force, 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)

List of armoured corps branches of ground forces

Corps-sized armoured formations

See also