Armored Force (Ukraine)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=Armored Force
Танкові війська


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dates=1992-present
country=Ukraine
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branch=Ukrainian Ground Forces
type=Armored
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size=2 Brigades
command_structure=8th Army Corps
6th Army Corps
garrison=Honcharivskeuk icon [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10268 Brigade in Honcharivske receives new tanks] ] Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
Kryvyi Rih [uk icon [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10294 Training in the 17th Armored Brigade] ] Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
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equipment=T-64 [uk icon [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=8568 Minister of Defence visits 1st Armored Brigade] ]
T-64B
T-64BM "Bulat" [uk icon [http://uamedia.visti.net/army/ People's Army Magazine] ]
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identification_symbol_label=Ground Forces Sleeve patch
identification_symbol_2=
identification_symbol_2_label=Armored Force branch insignia
identification_symbol_3=
identification_symbol_3_label=Sleeve patch for the 1st Armored Brigade
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identification_symbol_4_label=Sleeve patch for the 17th Armored Brigade

Armored Force ( _uk. Танкові війська, "Tankovi Viys’ka") along with Mechanized Infantry form the basis of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. They execute tasks of holding the occupied areas, lines and positions tasks of enemy’s impacts repelling, of penetrating enemy’s defense lines, of defeating the enemy forces, of capturing the important areas, lines and objects, operate in structure of marine and landing troops. [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=en&part=structure&sub=army The Army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] ]

Current Structure

*1st Armored Brigade
*17th Armored Brigade

Disbanded Formations

*17th Guards Tank DivisionLenskiy] - 17th Armored Brigade - reformed into brigade by 2003
*23rd Training Tank Division - 6065th Storage Base since 1987Feskov, p.106]
*30th Guards Tank Division - 30th Tank Brigade - July 30, 2004 reformed into 30th Mechanized Brigade
*41st Guards Tank Division - 5193th Storage Base since 1989
*42nd Guards Tank Division - 5359th Storage Base since 1990
*48th Guards Tank Division - 169th District Training Center
*117th Guards Tank Division - 119th District Training Center

Patches of former Armored Units

References

*ru icon Feskov - V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945–91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004
*ru icon Lenskiy - А. Г. Ленский, Сухопутные силы РККА в предвоенные годы. Справочник. — Санкт-Петербург Б&К, 2000