List IN8M
by Mark Bevis
1. Teeth ArmArmoured Regiment
3 Squadrons@
4 Troops@ 3x Tanks Mechanised Infantry Battalion
4 Companies@
3 platoons@ 3 AR sqds, 3 LMG, 3x 3.5" M20 bazooka, 3x BTR-60PB 1 Support Company:
1 platoon: 6x 81mm mortars, 6 trucks, 1 radio Jeep 1 platoon: 4x Jeep/106mm M40 1 Recce Platoon: 4x Jeeps, 2(6 man) AR/SMG sqds 2. Brigade SupportArmoured Brigade HQ: 2x Tanks, 2x BTR60PB, 4 lorries, Air Liaison Team in truck with: 1 Armoured Recce Squadron:
3 Troops@ 3x AMX-13/75 1 Field Artillery Regiment:
1 battery: 6x 105mm Abbot, 2 LMG, 1x FV432, OP Team 2 batteries@ 6x 25pdr guns, 6 trucks, radio truck, OP Team 3. Notes
b) Infantry squads have some kind of A/T grenades. AR is FN, LMG is Bren or FN-GPMG. SMG is Sterling. c) There are 5 Independent Armoured Brigades each of 3 Armoured Regiments and one Mechanised Battalion. d) Details are provisional. e) The 2nd and 16th Armoured Brigades are fully T-55/54 equipped. The 3rd Armoured Brigade has the Central Indian Horse and 72nd Armoured Regiments with T-55 and the 8th Light Cavalry Regiment with Vijayanta, plus the 7th Mechanised Grenadiers in BTR-60. The other two Armoured Brigades share four Centurion and two T-55 regiments. f) Tanks have APDS. In the 1971 war the T-54/55 had fake bore evacuators fitted around their gun barrels to help identify them apart from the neighbouring Type 59 tanks. Back to MicroMark Modern Indian List of TO&Es Back to MicroMark Modern National List of TO&Es Back to MicroMark Period List of TO&Es Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1997-2002 by Mark Bevis and MicroMark. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles covering military history related topics are available at http://www.magweb.com |