Initial Brigade Combat Team (IBCT)(287/27/3184 // 3498)

• Mission: Command and control the brigade to fight and win small-scale contingency operations in complex and urban terrain against a force that employs conventional and asymmetric capabilities

• Organization

  • Command Group
  • Bde HHC
  • Infantry Battalions (3)
  • RSTA Squadron
  • FA Battalion
  • Brigade Support Battalion
  • Anti-Armor Company
  • Engineer Company
  • Military Intelligence Company
  • Signal Company

• Capabilities

  • Provides CINC with a new option for decisive contingency response
  • Early entry divisional force capable of deploying within 96 hours

• Equipment/Weapons

  • IAV
  • MGS
  • Mortars (120mm, 81mm,60mm)
  • Javelin
  • Ground Radar
  • UAV
  • M198 155T Howitzer
  • TOW II-B
  • MICLIC
  • Volcano