page_title: Armoured reconnaissance
section_title: Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Armoured reconnaissance / Armoured reconnaissance units / Canada
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: LAV-25 du 12e régiment blindé du Canada.
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: In the Canadian Army, formation reconnaissance is normally primarily conducted by divisional armoured regiments that gather and fight for information, as well as performing more traditional armour tasks such as seizing, penetrating, and exploiting. There has not been a divisional armoured reconnaissance regiment in Canada since 1992. While there are no armoured reconnaissance regiments in the Regular Force in the present day, each Regular Force armoured regiment does provide a formation armoured reconnaissance squadron equipped with armoured cars to each mechanised brigade. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) is a tank-heavy regiment with two squadrons of tanks and one squadron of armoured cars, while both the Royal Canadian Dragoons and the 12ᵉ Régiment blindé du Canada are armoured car-heavy regiments, with three armoured car squadrons each and one shared tank squadron.
  Although the Reserve Force regiments continue to be known as armoured reconnaissance regiments, since the loss of the medium tank from their organisation, they have in reality only been employed in the light reconnaissance (scout) role.
  Armoured reconnaissance regiments in the Reserve Force.
  The Governor General's Horse Guards
  The Halifax Rifles (RCAC)
  8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)
  The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)
  The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)
  Sherbrooke Hussars
  12ᵉ Régiment blindé du Canada (Milice)
  1st Hussars
  The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)
  The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)
  The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)
  The South Alberta Light Horse
  The Saskatchewan Dragoons
  The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)
  The British Columbia Dragoons
  The Fort Garry Horse
  Le Régiment de Hull (RCAC)
  The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)
caption: Coyote Reconnaissance Vehicles from the 12e Régiment blindé du Canada
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