Sassari Mechanized Brigade
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- "Sassari" Combat Service Support Battalion in SassariSassariSassari is an Italian city. It is the second-largest city of Sardinia in terms of population with about 130,000 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the greater metropolitan area...
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3rd BersaglieriBersaglieriThe Bersaglieri are a corps of the Italian Army originally created by General Alessandro La Marmora on 18 June 1836 to serve in the Piedmontese Army, later to become the Royal Italian Army...
Regiment in TeuladaTeulada, ItalyTeulada is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 40 km southwest of Cagliari.... -
151st Mechanized Infantry Regiment "Sassari" in CagliariCagliariCagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu... -
152nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment "Sassari" in Sassari -
5th Engineer Regiment in MacomerMacomerMacomer is a town and comune of Sardinia in the province of Nuoro. It is situated on the southern ascent to the central plateau of this part of Sardinia, at the junction of narrow-gauge lines branching from the main railroad line running east to Nuoro and west to Bosa.The district, especially...
Each constituent regiment
Regiment
A regiment is a major tactical military unit, composed of variable numbers of batteries, squadrons or battalions, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel...
is battalion
Battalion
A battalion is a military unit of around 300–1,200 soldiers usually consisting of between two and seven companies and typically commanded by either a Lieutenant Colonel or a Colonel...
-sized. It is planned to further augment the Brigade by transferring the 1st Nizza Cavalleria Cavalry Regiment of the Alpine Brigade Taurinense
Alpine Brigade Taurinense
The Alpine Brigade Taurinense is a light Infantry brigade of the Italian Army, specializing in Mountain Combat. Its core units are the Alpini, the mountain infantry corps of the Italian Army, that distinguished itself in combat during World War I and World War II.The brigade’s name "Taurinense"...
to Sardinia.
Equipment
Each infantry regiment of the Brigade is currently equipped with 59 tracked VCC-2 armored personnel carriers (heavily modified versions of the M113 APCM113 Armored Personnel Carrier
The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier that has formed the backbone of the United States Army's mechanized infantry units from the time of its first fielding in Vietnam in April 1962. The M113 was the most widely used armored vehicle of the U.S...
). The Italian Army plans to replace the VCC-2 in the two infantry regiments with the wheeled Freccia IFV in the near future.