Sri Lankan 4th ARMOURED REGIMENT - Foreign Military Studies ...

everse order. We received twenty fiveMBTs and had to structure anorganization to fit the tanks.Consequently, three squadrons each witheight tanks were created. Each squadronhad three troops of two tanks, and aSquadron Headquarter of two tanks forthe Officer Commanding and Second InCommand. The twenty fifth tank was tobe the Regimental HeadquartersCommand Tank. The ad hoc structurethough adopted with some skepticismseem to work satisfactorily with troopinfantry units. It seemed effective, buthad to be developed further.Combat deployment soonfollowed and the 4 th Armoured Regimentlent its steel and blood to the nation’sdefense. For the next seventeen years theregiment wrote a new chapter in themodern history of the use of armour incounterinsurgency operations. Theycontributed immeasurably to the ultimatevictory over the Tamil Tigers and theliberation of the Sri Lankan people fromtheir reign of terror.leaders confidently handling two tanksin close quarter battles alongside32