11 Armoured Infantry Brigade
11
Pantserinfanteriebrigade (11 Painfbrig)
| Unit |
Main
Equipment |
Location |
Peace
Strength |
War
Strength |
Staff
and Staff Company
11 Armoured Infantry Brigade |
|
Arnhem |
26/32/109
(167)
|
32/34/148/2
(216) |
| 12
Armoured Infantry Battalion |
YP-408 |
Arnhem |
36/108/490
(634) |
41/117/661/2
(821) |
| 48
Armoured Infantry Battalion |
YP-408 |
Den
Bosch |
36/108/490
(634) |
41/117/661/2
(821) |
| 11 Armoured
Antitank Company |
YPR-765 PRAT |
Ermelo |
7/21/82
(110) |
9/26/135
(170) |
| 101 Tank
Battalion [a] |
Centurion
Mk 5/2, Leopard
1V |
Soesterberg |
29/76/314
(419) |
37/99/466/2
(604) |
| 11 Armoured
Engineer Company |
|
Ermelo |
8/25/132
(165) |
7/27/182
(216) |
| 11
Horse Artillery Battalion |
M109A2/A3 |
Arnhem |
36/90/307
(433) |
31/91/438/2
(562) |
| 11
Brigade Supply
Company |
|
Stroe |
6/21/123
(150) |
8/29/288
(325) |
| 11
Brigade Repair Company |
|
Arnhem |
8/50/193
(251) |
8/47/188
(243) |
| 11
Brigade Medical Company |
|
Stroe |
12/19/118
(149) |
19/21/144/2
(186) |
| 11
Armoured Infantry Brigade Peace Strength: 204/550/2358
(3112) |
| 11
Armoured Infantry Brigade
War Strength: 233/608/3311/12
(4164) |
Note
| a. |
101
Tank Battalion was transitioning from Centurion Mk 5/2 to Leopard 1V, whilst concurrently
adopting a new organisation type which would
add a mobilisable fourth tank squadron to the battalion's war
strength (the old battalion organisation is described in detail here). A and B
Squadron were re-equipped in November 1984 and March
1985 respectively. As per the planning of July 1985, C
Squadron was to be re-equipped
in September 1985. The
Staff and Support Squadron was to transition in May 1986, in
which month D Squadron (mobilisable) was to be added
as well.1 Given
the persistence of
the technical problems with the Leopard 1 upgrading programme and the
delays these had already caused, it is however quite possible
that further delays occurred.2 D
Squadron would be filled by the mobilisable personnel of B Squadron, 52 Tank
Battalion for ten months after their fourteen to
sixteen-month RIM period
in that unit had
expired.3 |
Combat Formations
Following
the Royal Army's tactical
doctrine and established modus operandi the brigade would not fight in
the organic
order of battle displayed above but form combined-arms battle groups,
as illustrated in Unit Organisation and Equipment, Mixed Battalions and Company Teams.
_________________________________________________
| 1. |
|
SSA-MvD,
CLAS/BLS 7486, Memorandum Realisatie Legerplan
149-4E d.d. 10 Juli 1985. |
| 2. |
|
According
to the initial planning of 1982, 101 Tankbattalion was to transition
between January and November 1984, with D Squadron to be added in
February 1986. SSA-MvD,
CLAS/BLS 7486,
Planningsmemorandum Instroming Leopard 1V, Leopard 2 (etc.) d.d. 29
december 1982. The last of the 468 Leopard 1Vs was delivered
on 16 December 1987. Smit, Leopard 1, 95-96. For a
detailed
analysis of the problems with the Leopard 1 upgrading programme and
their consequences, see NL-HaNA 2.13.182, inv. nr. 682,
Aantekening
DMKL "Het wapensysteem Leopard 1V" d.d. 28 augustus 1986,
6-8; HTK 1989-1990,
kamerstuknr.
21610 ondernr. 2 (Rapport Leopardtanks Algemene Rekenkamer),
52-61, 68-71; Smit, op. cit., 95-100. |
| 3. |
|
NIMH 205A/10,
Aflossing van mobilisabele eenheden en
-aanvullingen d.d. 17 juni 1985, Bijlage A1. Previous to that
B
Squadron, 52 Tank Battalion would have fulfilled their active-duty
period
as B Squadron, 101 Tank Battalion. Ibid. The
ten-month cycle of D Squadron: Selles,
Personele
vulling, 457. |
|