Produktbeschreibung
with ten Cavalry Rifle Teams, four Command Cavalry Rifle teams & two Cavalry Anti-tank Rifle teams.
The regiments of the twelve Brygada Kawalerii (Cavalry Brigades) represent the elite of the Polish Army. The men volunteered for a two-year term rather than the single year of the infantry conscripts. The quality of their officers and men provided them with their only significant advantage over the Germans during the campaign in September 1939.
The Polish Army consider horse cavalry essential in a country lacking a good road network and plentiful motorised vehicles. The cavalry provide the army with its most capable and mobile elements.
The army has forty cavalry regiments, consisting of three Pułk Szwoleżerów (pronounced poowk shvol-ezh-er-oov) light horse regiments, 27 Pułk Ułanów (pronounced poowk uwan-oov) or lancer regiments, and 10 Pułk Strzelców Konnych (pronounced poowk stzhel-tsoov kon-nih) or mounted rifle regiments. Despite their titles, these regiments have identical roles, organisation and equipment, although there are some slight variations in uniforms, particularly for the light horse regiments who trace their lineage back to the chevaux-légers of Napoleon’s army a century ago.
Polish cavalry are famed through out the world. They are the epitome that other cavalry strive to match. |
