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The Royal Newfoundland Tank Regiment (RNTR) is an administrative regiment to tank battalions in similar fashion to the infantry. There are six tank battalions in the regiment, plus the regimental school. All battalions of the RNTR are regular force.
1RNTR through to 5RNTR are all equipped with the main battle tank of Newfoundland, an indigenous tank design with assistance from the British firm Vickers that entered service in 1982. 6RNTR is different as it consists of four companies for the Parachute Brigade, two tank companies with Vickers VFM-5 light tanks and two companies of Leonidas-2 APCs from Greece.
For history the MBT replaced the M-41 walker bulldog which entered service in the early 1960s. The M-41 replaced the British Comet which entered service in 1946. The second world war was a mish-mash of British and american tanks.
The RNTR was formed in 1923 as "Heavy section, first battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment" with nine surplus British Whippet tanks. Another nine would be bought in 1928 when the unit was dissolved and reformed as the newfoundland tank regiment. Another twelve Whippets and eleven Mark V tanks would be bought in 1930, and this would form the basis of four "battalions" of the tank regiment until the outbreak of hostilities in Europe in 1939. The unit would send one battalion to Europe in 1940, reequipped with Matild 2 infantry tanks. Upon return in 1945 the battalion would be re-counted in addition to the existing battalions still using the Great War vintage tanks. These would be univedsLly replaced starting in 1946 with the British Comet. The vehicles retired would go on to form the basis of the three reserve tank regiments inducted in 1948. The last Mark V was withdrawn from service in a reserve regiment in 1974 along with the last Whippet when both vehicles were ceremoniously driven the length of Water Street to the National War Memorial before being donated to the Dominion War Museum in St.John's. The last Matilda would follow in 1975 as part of the 30th anniversary of the second world war.
When the Dominion began domestic production of a tank in 1982 it was intended to replace the mix of obsolete tanks used by the reserve units with a proper modern tank in numbers that could one day use. The last reserve regiment transitiond from their M-41 light tanks to the MBT in 1995, and it has been the sole tank outside of 6RNTR ever since.
In terms of land forces. There are two Armoured Brigades, formed of two tanks battalions and one mechanized infantry battalions each. One mechanized brigade of one tank battalion and two mechanized infantry battalions. And the Parachute Brigade which is both para battalions plus one tank battalion, 6RNTR. They all have support elements and artillery I have not listed.
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