1st-11th Cuirassier Regiment

The 1st–11th Cuirassier Regiment (French: 1er-11e Régiment de Cuirassiers, 1er-11e RC) was an armoured (tank) regiment of the French Army.

It was the armoured component of the 3rd Mechanised Brigade from 1 July 1999.

[1] The Chief of Staff of the French Army decided on 1 September 1990 to create a new experimental armoured regiment of 80 tanks with two squadron groups (Groupes d'Escadrons, GE).

[1] The regiment was composed of around 1350 personnel organized into 13 Squadrons.

[1] List of Commanding Officers (French: Chefs de corps) since 1999.

Men of the 1st–11th Cuirassier Regiment on the 2007 Bastille Day parade at the Champs-Élysées