Army’s 32nd Air Defense Group's 3-52nd Air Defense Artillery with its I-Hawks. Army’s 130th Engineer Brigade's 54th Engineer Battalion deploying engineers and M728 combat engineer vehicles. Army’s 8th Infantry Division's 1-68th Armor featuring M1A1 tanks and M113-mounted mechanized infantry. Panzerdivision's Panzerartillerie-Bataillon 135 bringing M109A3G self-propelled artillery. ![]() Panzerdivision's Panzergrenadier-Bataillon 152 consisting of Marder-transported infantry. They would protect their parent division and provide critical support to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment’s squadrons scattered along the frontline. Next to that, each of NATO’s main divisions close to the border would forward deploy one of their battalions. The 3rd Armored Division was the formation nearest to the regiment’s squadrons. In real life, as in our war scenarios, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment wasn’t fighting entirely on its own. The “Blackhorse’s” wartime mission was to delay any attacking enemy long enough for fresh NATO reinforcements to mobilize and counterattack - even if it meant dying (calling that a “successful fail”). It featured a substantial amount of tanks and even had its organic air cavalry squadron made up of helicopter support. During a full-scale Soviet invasion, no one was under any false impression: life expectancy in the regiment was counted in hours, and the formation’s screening mission a sacrificial one.ĭeployed almost completely by itself along the Inner German Border, the regiment was a unique mechanized force. ![]() Forward deployed and providing overwatch on the Inner German Border, the various squadrons of this regiment would fight a most-important delaying action near Fulda, Bad Hersfeld, and Bad Kissingen. Anybody familiar with the Cold War, and NATO in West Germany, will be aware of the 11th Armored Cavalry “Black Horse” Regiment’s combat role during any conventionally fought World War III.
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