On September 4, 1956, the 2nd Armoured Corps headquarters stood down and the 11th Division was subordinated to the command of the Silesian Military District.

In August and September 1968, the 11th Armoured Division was one of the Polish units that took part in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The new type designation recalled the service of pre-war and Second World War Western Front Polish armoured units.

The designation "armoured cavalry" and unit badge depicting a black hussar wing and helmet[1] reference the historical winged hussars, the Polish heavy shock cavalry from the 16th to 18th centuries.

The Division's patron Jan III Sobieski personally led the winged hussars at the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and the Division inherited the battle honour Vienna 1683, inscribed on the unit's commemorative badge, in 1989.