Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

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The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps (RCAC) is the armoured branch of service of the Canadian Forces Land Force Command (Canadian Army), including regular force and militia regiments. The corps was formed in 1940 as the Canadian Armoured Corps with Major-General (then Colonel) F. F. Worthington as its first colonel-commandant, but claimed lineage from the Canadian Tank Corps of the First World War. The royal designation was added in 1945. Canadian armoured regiments split their heritage between the cavalry, from which many armoured regiments were created, and the infantry beginning in 1936 with the creation of "infantry (tank)" regiments and continuing from 1940 when many infantry regiments mobilized armoured units for the Second World War and eventually transferred from the (Royal) Canadian Infantry Corps into the RCAC.

Regular Force

1. Royal Canadian Dragoons — armoured reconnaissance
2. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) — armoured/armoured reconnaissance
3. 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada — armoured reconnaissance

Militia

1. The Governor General's Horse Guards — household cavalry
2. 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) — armoured reconnaissance
3. The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) — armoured reconnaissance
4. The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC) — armoured reconnaissance
5. Sherbrooke Hussars — armoured
6. 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada (Milice) - armoured reconnaissance
7. 1st Hussars — armoured reconnaissance
8. The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC) — armoured reconnaissance
9. The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) — armoured reconnaissance
10. The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) (RCAC) — armoured reconnaissance
11. The South Alberta Light Horse — armoured reconnaissance
12. The Saskatchewan Dragoons — armoured reconnaissance
13. The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) — armoured reconnaissance
14. The British Columbia Dragoons — armoured reconnaissance
15. The Fort Garry Horse — armoured reconnaissance
16. Le Régiment de Hull (RCAC) — armoured reconnaissance
17. The Windsor Regiment (RCAC) — armoured reconnaissance

Equipment

The main vehicles operated by the RCAC include:

• Leopard 2 main battle tank, purchase announced in 2007
• Leopard C2 main battle tank
• Coyote Reconnaissance Vehicle; this is in service with the Regular Force regiments
• G-Wagon reconnaissance vehicle; this is used by the Militia regiments

Order of precedence

RCHA on parade with guns: (See note below)

RCHA on dismounted parades: (See note below)

Note: The honour of "The Right of the Line" (precedence over other units), on an army parade, is held by the units of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery when on parade with their guns. On dismounted parades, RCHA units take precedence over all other land force units except formed bodies of Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College representing their college. RCA units parade to the left of units of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.

See also

• Royal Armoured Corps
• Royal Australian Armoured Corps
• Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps

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