The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (RNZAC) is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Force and Territorial Force units equipped with armoured vehicles in the New Zealand Army.

The Divisional Cavalry Regiment and the 4th Armoured Brigade[1] were among the foremost NZ armoured units during World War II, though at home the 1st Army Tank Brigade was also established.

[4] During the 1990s, corps personnel contributed to the deployment of a mechanized infantry company group to Bosnia-Hercegovina for UNPROFOR as part of the NZDF Operation Radian.

Among the surviving Territorial Force units at the end of the 20th Century was the Wai/WEC Squadron, later the Waikato Mounted Rifles in Hamilton, and the fast-diminishing New Zealand Scottish Regiment, also at squadron size technically but actually dwindling into single figures, in the South Island.

[5] RNZAC personnel serve in: Regular Force Territorial Force The RNZAC is primarily equipped with two types of vehicle: The units of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps have a complicated and intermingled heritage.