43 Armoured Infantry Brigade
43
Pantserinfanteriebrigade (43 Painfbrig)
Unit |
Main
Equipment |
Location |
Peace
Strength |
War
Strength |
Staff
and Staff Company
43 Armoured Infantry Brigade |
|
Darp |
26/32/109
(167)
|
32/34/148/2
(216) |
41
Armoured Infantry Battalion |
YPR-765 |
Ermelo |
38/110/512
(660) |
44/125/716/2
(887) |
47
Armoured Infantry Battalion |
YPR-765 |
Darp |
38/110/512
(660) |
44/125/716/2
(887) |
13 Armoured
Antitank Company [a] |
YPR-765 PRAT |
Oirschot |
7/21/82
(110) |
9/26/135
(170) |
42 Tank
Battalion [b] |
Leopard 1,
Leopard
2 |
– |
– |
38/90/415/2
(545) |
42 Armoured
Engineer Company |
|
Darp |
8/25/132
(165) |
7/27/182
(216) |
43
Field Artillery Battalion |
M109A2/A3 |
Darp |
33/87/305
(425) |
31/91/438/2
(562) |
43
Brigade Supply
Company |
|
Vierhouten |
6/20/119
(145) |
8/28/275
(311) |
43
Brigade Repair Company |
|
Darp |
8/49/179
(236) |
8/49/191
(248) |
43
Brigade Medical Company |
|
Darp |
12/18/118
(148) |
19/21/144/2
(186) |
43
Armoured Infantry Brigade Peace Strength: 169/451/1986
(2606) |
43
Armoured Infantry Brigade
War Strength: 240/616/3360/12
(4228) |
Notes
a. |
Wartime
organisation; under
command of 13
Armoured Brigade in peacetime. |
b. |
42
Tank Battalion (RIM) was transitioning from Leopard 1 to Leopard 2,
whilst concurrently adopting a new organisation type which would
add a fourth tank squadron to the
battalion's strength (the old battalion
organisation is described in detail here). A Squadron had
been re-equipped in September or October 1984, B Squadron in
January or February 1985 and C Squadron in May or June
1985. The Staff and Support Squadron was to transition in
February 1986, in which month D Squadron would be
added as well.1 A, B
and C Squadron were filled by mobilisable squadrons
that had fulfilled their active-duty period in 41 Tank
Battalion up to twenty months
prior to mobilisation.2 D
Squadron, not falling under the RIM system, would be filled by
the
mobilisable personnel of A Squadron for ten months after their
twenty-month RIM period in that unit
had expired.2 3 4 |
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. |
|
SSA-MvD,
CLAS/BLS 7486, Memorandum Realisatie Legerplan
149-6A d.d. 25 mei 1984. Ibid.,
Memorandum Realisatie Legerplan 149-6F
d.d. 10 Juli 1985. |
2. |
|
As
41 Tank Battalion had no squadron on Short
Leave, the conscript personnel of
its three tank squadrons would skip the usual four to six-month
Short Leave period and pass
straight into 42 Tank Battalion (RIM) on completion of their
active-duty period. The Short Leave period was added to the
fourteen to sixteen-month RIM period, thus expanding the latter to up
to twenty monhs. |
3. |
|
NIMH
205A/10, Aflossing van mobilisabele eenheden en
-aanvullingen d.d. 11 november 1983. Ibid., d.d. 17 juni 1985. The
ten-month cycle of D Squadron: Selles,
Personele
vulling, 457. |
4. |
|
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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