Pakistan Armoured Corps
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The Armoured Corps (Urdu: 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. The corps has only administrative control of its component regiments. The regiments are deployed in a number of field formations including two armoured divisions, two mechanised divisions, and a number of independent armoured brigades. The Corps has a major presence along the India-Pakistan border and a minor presence along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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*Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
*Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
**Battle of Chawinda
*Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
*Operation Desert Storm
*Operation Brasstacks
*Operation Parakram
*Operation Zarb-e-Azb
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Pakistan Armoured Corps
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The Armoured Corps (Urdu: 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. The corps has only administrative control of its component regiments. The regiments are deployed in a number of field formations including two armoured divisions, two mechanised divisions, and a number of independent armoured brigades. The corps has a history going back to September 1773, when its oldest unit, the Governor General's Bodyguard, was raised in British India. The corps maintains a number of units , who earned fame in numerous wars and engagements as part of the British Indian Army including in the two World Wars. At the time of the independence, Pakistan inherited six armoured regiments from the old British Indian Army. Since then, the corps has expanded into more than forty regiments. Many of these new regiments have also earned accolades for their performance in wars fought with India. The corps played a minor role in 1947-48 and a major role in the 1965 and 1971 wars with India. Later on, the Corps played a crucial part in terms of deterrence when the Pakistani Army has mobilised repeatedly in the face of various Indian build-ups on the border. These include Operation Brasstacks in 1986-87 and Operation Parakram in 2001-02. The Corps also took part in Operation Zarb-e-Azb against terrorist groups in the North-Western part of Pakistan. The Corps has a major presence along the India-Pakistan border and a minor presence along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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