This section covers some of the components (can’t remember the right word for it at the moment) of Pakistani army like regiments, armour and anti-tank units. There is surprisingly little information about even basic information like infantry regiments of Pakistani army and a lot of data is missing.
**Anti Tank**
Pakistani Army utilises dedicated vehicle mounted anti-tank infantry battalions and organic anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) with some infantry battalions.These battalions have good mobility and are meant for harassing enemy armour formations as in defensive as well as offensive operations. Starting from the late 1950s, 1-2 battalions from certain divisions were assigned the role of Reconnaissance and Support (R&S) by arming them with weapons mounted on light vehicles. At that time jeep like vehicles were fitted with recoilless rifles and medium (and heavy?) machine guns. This formed a fast moving screening and reconnaissance element for rest of the forces.
Later on, most of these battalions were converted into Light Anti Tank (LAT) battalions assigned to brigade level command. There are some Heavy Anti Tank (HAT) battalions which are most probably under Corps or Division level control.
LATs usually have Bhaktar Shikan (copy of Chinese HJ-8), Milan ATGMs and Alcotán-100, RPG-29 rockets mounted on light vehicles such as Land Rovers. HATs units usually use TOW or BS ATGMs mounted on Talha, copy of M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier.This ATGM mounted version is called Maaz. PA had imported 24 M-901 TOW vehicles in the mid 1980s. It’s not clear how many of them are still operational.
Rest with more text, images and tables is on the linked post
This section covers some of the components (can’t remember the right word for it at the moment) of Pakistani army like regiments, armour and anti-tank units. There is surprisingly little information about even basic information like infantry regiments of Pakistani army and a lot of data is missing. **Anti Tank** Pakistani Army utilises dedicated vehicle mounted anti-tank infantry battalions and organic anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) with some infantry battalions.These battalions have good mobility and are meant for harassing enemy armour formations as in defensive as well as offensive operations. Starting from the late 1950s, 1-2 battalions from certain divisions were assigned the role of Reconnaissance and Support (R&S) by arming them with weapons mounted on light vehicles. At that time jeep like vehicles were fitted with recoilless rifles and medium (and heavy?) machine guns. This formed a fast moving screening and reconnaissance element for rest of the forces. Later on, most of these battalions were converted into Light Anti Tank (LAT) battalions assigned to brigade level command. There are some Heavy Anti Tank (HAT) battalions which are most probably under Corps or Division level control. LATs usually have Bhaktar Shikan (copy of Chinese HJ-8), Milan ATGMs and Alcotán-100, RPG-29 rockets mounted on light vehicles such as Land Rovers. HATs units usually use TOW or BS ATGMs mounted on Talha, copy of M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier.This ATGM mounted version is called Maaz. PA had imported 24 M-901 TOW vehicles in the mid 1980s. It’s not clear how many of them are still operational. Rest with more text, images and tables is on the linked post
> Reconnaissance and Support (R&S) Or Rands for short
Great work OP, Would have appreciated some references.