13 Armoured Brigade
1
13
Pantserbrigade (13 Pabrig)
| Unit |
Main Equipment |
Location |
Peace
Strength |
War
Strength |
Staff
and Staff Company
13 Armoured Brigade |
|
Oirschot |
26/32/110
(168)
|
32/34/148/2
(216) |
| 11 Tank
Battalion [a] |
Leopard 1 |
Oirschot |
28/77/306
(411) |
36/103/441/2
(582) |
| 49 Tank
Battalion [b] |
Leopard
1, Leopard 1V |
– |
– |
38/95/429/2
(564) |
| 17
Armoured Infantry Battalion |
YPR-765 |
Oirschot |
38/110/512
(660) |
44/125/716/2
(887) |
| School
Company 42 Armoured Infantry
Battalion [c] |
|
Oirschot |
4/32/29(65) |
– |
| 13 Armoured Antitank
Company [d] |
YPR-765
PRAT |
Oirschot |
7/21/82
(110) |
9/26/135
(170) |
| 13 Armoured
Engineer Company |
|
Oirschot |
8/25/132
(165) |
7/27/182
(216) |
| 12 Field
Artillery Battalion |
M109A2/A3 |
Oirschot |
33/88/305
(426) |
31/91/438/2
(562) |
| 12
Brigade Supply Company |
|
Oirschot |
5/19/115
(139) |
7/27/263
(297) |
| 13 Brigade
Repair Company |
|
Oirschot |
8/54/188
(250) |
8/48/192
(248) |
| 13
Brigade Medical Company |
|
Oirschot |
12/18/118
(148) |
19/21/144/2
(186) |
| 13
Armoured Brigade Peace Strength: 169/476/1897
(2542) |
| 13
Armoured Brigade War Strength: 222/571/2953/12
(3758) |
Notes
| a. |
11 Tank Battalion was initially to transition
from Leopard
1 to Leopard 1V during 1985, concurrently adopting a new organisation type (the old battalion
organisation is described in detail here).
Due to
continuous technical problems with the Leopard 1 upgrading programme
and a labour
strike in the German industry however the transition was deferred to
1986, as
follows (as per the planning of July 1985): Staff
and Support Squadron and B Squadron to be re-equipped in January 1986, A
Squadron in May 1986 and C Squadron in November 1986.2
Given the persistence of the problems with the upgrading programme and
the delays these had already caused it is quite possible that further
delays occurred.3 5 |
| b. |
49
Tank Battalion (RIM) was transitioning from Leopard 1 to Leopard
1V, concurrently adopting a new organisation type (the old battalion
organisation is described in detail here). A
Squadron was re-equipped in March 1985, B Squadron
and the
Staff and Support Squadron in July 1985. C Squadron
was to
be re-equipped in January 1986, though
again this may have been delayed due to the aforementioned problems.2
4 5 The battalion was
filled by mobilisable squadrons that had fulfilled their active-duty
period in 59
Tank Battalion and 101 Tank
Battalion (Leopard 1V),
and 11 Tank
Battalion (Leopard 1) between
four
and twenty months prior to mobilisation. Once the
re-equipment of 11 and 49 Tank Battalion was completed the battalion
would be filled by 11 Tank Battalion entirely.6
8 |
| c. |
This
unit handled the first four months of basic training for conscript
personnel that would serve their ten-month active-duty period
with 42
Armoured Infantry Battalion in West
Germany.7 |
| d. |
Peacetime
organisation; under command of 43 Armoured
Infantry Brigade in wartime. |
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.
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| 1. |
|
For
the brigade's role in 1 (NL) Corps covering force between 1979 and
1985, see
41Armoured Brigade, Operational Role: The
Corps Covering Force. |
| 2. |
|
SSA-MvD,
CLAS/BLS 7486, Memorandum Realisatie Legerplan 149-5B d.d. 10 juli 1985. |
| 3. |
|
According
to the initial planning of 1982, 11 Tank Battalion was to
transition between September 1984 and July 1985. 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.
Elands, Van Gils and Schoenmaker in fact state (in Geschiedenis 1 Divisie,
232) that 11
Tank Battalion was the last unit to be re-equipped, in 1987. |
| 4. |
|
According
to the initial planning of 1982 49 Tankbattalion was to transition
between December 1984 and May 1985. SSA-MvD,
CLAS/BLS 7486, op. cit. |
| 5. |
|
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,
Leopard 1,
95-100. |
| 6. |
|
NIMH
205A/10, Aflossing van mobilisabele eenheden en
-aanvullingen d.d. 11 november 1983. Ibid., d.d. 17 juni 1985. SSA-MvD,
CLAS/BLS 7486, Memorandum Realisatie Legerplan 149-5B d.d. 10 juli 1985. |
| 7. |
|
Van de
Worp, 42 Schoolcie,
36. See also 41 Armoured Brigade, Force
Profile. |
| 8. |
|
RIM was
the Dutch acronym for Direct Influx into Mobilisable Units (Rechtstreekse
Instroming in Mobilisabele Eenheden). For a survey of the
Royal Army's unit filling and reserve system see Gijsbers, Blik
in de smidse, 2222-2231;
Selles,
Personele
vulling;
Berghuijs, Opleiding,
14-23. In English: Isby and Kamps, Armies,
341-343; Sorrell, Je
Maintiendrai, 94-96; Van
Vuren, The
Royal Netherlands Army Today, Military Review April 1982, 23-28. |
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