Armoured Detachments (battalions, Polish: Dywizjon Pancerny) were assigned to Cavalry Brigades as their reconnaissance element.*
They consisted of an armoured car squadron and a tankette squadron.*
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Each armoured car squadron had seven cars (two platoons and a commander), the eighth
car was the Detachment's commander's.*
The tankette squadron had 13 tankettes (TK-3 or TK-S), in two six-vehicle platoons.*
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There were eleven Armoured Detachments, ten with wz.34 armoured cars and the 11th with wz.29 armoured cars.*
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