Heavy Brigade Combat Team
The heavy brigade combat team is the army's primary armored force. It will be designed around combined arms battalions that contain both M1 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). Other vehicles, such as HMMWVs and variants of the M113 armored personnel carrier, operate in a supporting role. In the future, it will also contain vehicles from the BCT Ground Combat Vehicle Program.
The heavy brigade combat team consists of six battalions: two combined arms and one each of armored reconnaissance (cavalry), fires (artillery), special troops, and support. The brigade combat team was renamed from a heavy brigade combat team to a heavy brigade combat team in 2012.
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