page_title: Armoured reconnaissance
section_title: South Africa
hierarchical_section_title: Armoured reconnaissance / Armoured reconnaissance units / South Africa
caption_attribution_description: Description: Eland Mk7 Armoured Car with disabled 90mm gun at the end of Furstenburg Road, Bloemfontein. 2014.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: There is only one dedicated armoured reconnaissance regiment in the South African Army, the Light Horse Regiment, and it is considered an armoured car unit. The regiment, which has its roots in the British South African Light Horse, was initially equipped with Ferret scout cars. Following the aggressive nature of South African reconnaissance doctrine, the lightly armed Ferret was replaced first by the Eland Mk7 and after 1991 the Rooikat, which were heavier vehicles equipped with large-calibre cannon.
  Light Horse Regiment
caption: South African Eland-90 armoured reconnaissance vehicle.
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