"Syrian Armored Regiment Toe in the 80s?" Topic

Does anyone have the organizational structure for a Syrian Armored Regiment, or even a Battalion in the 1980s?

Thanks for any help!

If Syrian organization in the '80's was unchanged from 1967, then each Syrian armored brigade:

had three tank battalions; on paper each battalion had 40 tanks in three companies of 13 each (with one for the battalion commander).

From 'Sword of Israel: The Syrian Arab Army' by Avalanche Press here:

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Try this link, it's from the Fire&Fury website.

PDF link

Thanks both, great material. I see in 73 it was exclusively T-62s & T-55s, not surprisingly.

By the Israeli incursion of Lebanon in 82 do you know if they would have had any T-72s deployed? I saw one article that said the Syrians had received 350 T-72s from Russia in 82 but it didn't state whether any made it into contact with the Israelis..

They sure did:

IAF Cobras destroyed dozens of Syrian Armored fighting vehicles, including some of the modern Soviet T-72 main battle tanks. The war also witnessed the Israeli Merkava MBT make its first combat debut, squaring off against Syrian T-72 tanks. During these engagements, the Israelis claimed that the Merkava proved superior to the T-72, destroying a number of them without sustaining a single loss to T-72 fire.

However, defense analysts and the Syrians claimed the opposite, saying that their T-72s were highly effective and that none were lost. The T-72 tanks of the Syrian 2nd Armored Division were credited with not only halting the advance of an Israeli armored brigade on Rashaya on 10 June but pushing them back. They tallied the destruction of 33 tanks and the capture of an M60 Patton, which was sent to Damascus and thence transported to Moscow. Syrian tanks saw similar success against Israeli armor in Ain Zhalta and Sultan Yacoub in fighting on 8–10 June, stemming their advance to capture the Beirut-Damascus highway.

From wikipedia (under Military Analysis):

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i have a TO&E somewhere from desert storm, form command magazine, let me look for it.

MicroMark has a TO&E for the Syrian Armored Division in Lebanon 81-84 link
Well worth the price. Includes all the brigade support units and the different tank battalion strengths.

Thanks WillismB, I forgot all about Wargame Vault!