Army engineering maintenance consists of those
engineers
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while consider ...
,
technicians, and military organizations responsible for the expert repair and maintenance of
army
An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...
vehicles, weapon systems, and other equipment.
Army engineering maintenance should not be confused with
military engineering which is distinctly separate and analogous to
civil engineering
Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...
while the former analogous to
mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...
and
electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
.
Operational and tactical level focus
At the operational and tactical levels, army engineering maintenance is focused on the repair and scheduled maintenance work required to keep army equipment fleets operational.
Strategic level focus
At the strategic level, army engineering maintenance is closely linked to
military logistics
Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement, supply, and maintenance of military forces. In its most comprehensive sense, it is those aspects or military operations that deal with:
* Design, development, Milita ...
. At this level, it includes work such as the design, development, and testing of new vehicles and weapon systems. It also includes
lifecycle management activities once new systems become operational.
Army engineering in nations' armed forces
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Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – Australia
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Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – Canada
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Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment – New Zealand
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Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering – Pakistan
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Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – United Kingdom
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Ordnance Corps – United States
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Maintenance and Engineering Support - Singapore
See also
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Motor transport
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Armoured recovery vehicle
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Systems engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their Enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering uti ...
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Military engineering
Notes
Military maintenance
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Engineering disciplines
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