- Regiment Huzaren van Boreel
The Regiment Huzaren van Boreel is an
armoured regiment of theRoyal Netherlands Army , named forWillem Francois Boreel . It currently serves in the armoured Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, Reconnaissance (ISTAR ) role; the regiment provides two armoured reconnaissancesquadron s assigned to each of the army's twomechanized brigade s, while an STA artillery unit, an electronic warfare unit, HUMINTwhat unit and imagery intelligence unit all formed into a single battalion attached to the Combat Support Brigade.Armoured reconnaissance
The most important role of the regiment Huzaren van Boreel is armoured reconnaissance. To perform this task, the regiment has two brigade reconnaissance squadrons, one per mechanized brigade:
42 BVE (Brigade Verkennings Eskadron) for the 13th Mechanized Brigade, 43 BVE for the 43rd Mechanized Brigade.Nowadays, the motto of these units is "See without being seen", as opposed to the cold-war period "Find, Bind and Strike", where the units would find the enemy, engage them, deliver an
artillery strike , and speed off. The goal here was to delay theRussians long enough forNATO troops to arrive.With the new philosophy the combat task of these units has faded away. Where the units previously were armed with tanks, AIFVs and even their own artillery, nowadays they are equipped with the state of the artFennek reconnaissance vehicle.A BVE typically consists of three recon platoons, eight vehicles each, 24 people total, an AT platoon, equipped with the Fennek MRAT,what a logistics platoon and a staff platoon.
External links
* [http://www.cavaleriemuseum.nl Dutch Cavalry Museum]
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