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1029:. The regiment has approximately 1,500 elite soldiers under its command. It plans and carries out special operations all around the world and is the main expeditionary unit of the Belgian ground forces. The regiment consists of the 2nd commando battalion, the 3rd parachute battalion, the special forces group (SFG), the
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Belgian Army went through a major re-equipment programme for most of its vehicles. The aim was to phase out all tracked vehicles in favour of wheeled vehicles. As of 2010, the tank units were to be disbanded or amalgamated with the Armored Infantry (two infantry companies and one tank squadron
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The nominal strength of a division varied from 25,500 to 32,000 all ranks, with a total strength of eighteen infantry battalions, a cavalry regiment, eighteen machine-guns, and forty-eight guns. Two divisions (the 2nd and 6th) each had an additional artillery regiment, for a total of sixty guns.
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Leopard 1A5 tank was retired on 10 September 2014. 56 of the tanks were sold, about 24 will stay as historic monuments or serve as a museum pieces; the rest will be phased out or used for target practice. In 2008 a sale of 43 Leopard 1A5(BE) to Lebanon was concluded, but as of 2018 was not
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Leopard 1 tanks were to be sold. As of 2013, only some M113 variants (Radar, recovery, command posts, and driving school vehicles) and Leopard variants (Recovery, AVLB, Pionier, driving tanks) will remain in service.
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as the Chief of the
General Staff from 25 May 1914 until 6 September 1914 when a Royal Decree abolished the function of Chief of Staff of the army. In this way the King secured his control of the command.
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vehicles, two military training camps and a headquarters company. In the future the brigade is to be reorganized into four infantry battalions and two cavalry battalions.
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2372:"Akkoord over het strategisch plan voor Defensie 2030"
2185:"Cold War Battle Orders Make Way for a New NATO Era".
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2330:"Belgium Ditched Its Tanks—And Never Got Them Back"
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1061:29th Logistic Battalion
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2217:Jane's Defence Weekly
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2187:Jane's Defence Weekly
2175:, accessed April 2009
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2409:Belgian Army website
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682:(Lieutenant-General
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414:A detachment of the
339:King of the Belgians
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3297:Turkish Land Forces
3101:Latvian Land Forces
2880:Albanian Land Force
2852:Allied Land Command
2777:States with limited
2454:Military of Belgium
2342:on 8 December 2020.
2244:on 17 February 2005
2234:"IPR Landcomponent"
2074:www.ars-moriendi.be
1801:1ste korporaal-chef
1361:Kapitein-commandant
865:Northern Army Group
813:, Belgium provided
785:Free Belgian Forces
484:2 companies settled
3325:United States Army
3199:Polish Land Forces
2419:(Dutch and French)
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