1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion is a fast and mobilized armored terrestrial reconnaissance battalion of the United States Marine Corps. Nicknamed the "Highlanders," their primary weapon system is the LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicle armed with the M242 25mm Bushmaster chain gun. They fall under the command of the 1st Marine Division and the I Marine Expeditionary Force. The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.
1st LAR Insignia
A 1st LAR LAV-25
6 March 2009, A LAV-M with Fox Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance, Regimental Combat Team 8, fires an 81mm high explosive mortar at a range here. This is the first time that mortarmen with Company F have been able to focus their primary skills due to their deployment mission of monitoring the Syrian border.
Armoured reconnaissance is the combination of terrestrial reconnaissance with armoured warfare by soldiers using tanks and wheeled or tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicles. While the mission of reconnaissance is to gather intelligence about the enemy with the use of reconnaissance vehicles, armoured reconnaissance adds the ability to fight for information, and to have an effect on and to shape the enemy through the performance of traditional armoured tasks.
A CV90 armoured reconnaissance vehicle of the Norwegian Army on patrol in Afghanistan.
Coyote Reconnaissance Vehicles from the 12e Régiment blindé du Canada
One of the British CVR(T) variants – FV107 Scimitar
M1127 Reconnaissance Vehicle
