12 Armoured Infantry Brigade
12
Pantserinfanteriebrigade (12 Painfbrig)
| Unit |
Main
Equipment |
Location |
Peace
Strength |
War
Strength |
Staff
and Staff Company
12 Armoured Infantry Brigade |
|
Vierhouten |
30/35/113
(178)
|
32/34/148/2
(216) |
| 11
Armoured Infantry Battalion |
YP-408 |
Arnhem |
38/110/492
(640) |
41/117/661/2
(821) |
| 13
Armoured Infantry Battalion |
YP-408 |
Schalkhaar |
38/110/492
(640) |
41/117/661/2
(821) |
| 12 Armoured
Antitank Company |
YPR-765 PRAT |
Vierhouten |
7/21/82
(110) |
9/26/135
(170) |
| 59 Tank
Battalion [a] |
Centurion
Mk 5/2, Leopard
1V |
't
Harde |
31/78/319
(428) |
37/99/466/2
(604) |
| 12 Armoured
Engineer Company |
|
Vierhouten |
8/25/132
(165) |
7/27/182
(216) |
| 14
Field Artillery Battalion [b] |
M109A2/A3 |
– |
– |
31/87/434/2
(554) |
| 13
Brigade Supply
Company |
|
Vierhouten |
6/20/117
(143) |
8/28/267
(303) |
| 12
Brigade Repair Company |
|
Nieuw Milligen |
8/48/179
(235) |
8/47/188
(243) |
| 12
Brigade Medical Company |
|
Vierhouten |
12/18/118
(148) |
19/21/144/2
(186) |
| 12
Armoured Infantry Brigade Peace Strength: 178/465/2044
(2687) |
| 12
Armoured Infantry Brigade
War Strength: 233/603/3286/12
(4134) |
Notes
| a. |
59
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 January and May
1985 respectively. As per the planning of July 1985 C
Squadron was to be re-equipped
in November 1985. The
Staff and Support Squadron was to transition in
November 1986, in
which month D Squadron (mobilisable) was to be added
as well.1 However, given
the persistence of
the technical problems with the Leopard 1 upgrading programme and the
delays these had already caused, it
is quite possible
that further delays occurred.2 D
Squadron would be filled by the mobilisable personnel of B Squadron, 58 Tank
Battalion (RIM) for ten months after their fourteen to
sixteen-month RIM period
in that unit had
expired.3 |
| b. |
RIM battalion, filled by
mobilisable batteries that had fulfilled their active-duty
period in 41 Field
Artillery Battalion between four and
twenty
months prior to mobilisation.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.
_________________________________________________
| 1. |
|
SSA-MvD,
CLAS/BLS 7486, Memorandum Realisatie Legerplan
149-4E d.d. 10 Juli 1985. |
| 2. |
|
According
to the initial planning of 1982, 59 Tankbattalion was to transition
between March and August 1984, with D Squadron to be added in March
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. 23 november 1983. Ibid., d.d. 11 juni 1985.
Previous
to that B Squadron, 58 Tank Battalion would have fulfilled their
active-duty period
as B Squadron, 59 Tank Battalion. Ibid., d.d. 23
november 1983. Ibid., d.d. 11 juni 1985. The
ten-month cycle of D Squadron: Selles,
Personele
vulling, 457. |
| 4. |
|
Ibid.,
d.d. 23 november 1983. Ibid., d.d. 11 juni 1985. 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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