90th Armoured Regiment (India)
Lieutenant Colonel Manjit Singh Sawhney of 18 Cavalry was the first Commandant while Ris Maj Bhanwar Khan of 92 Indep Recce Sqn was the first Risaldar Major.The regiment was raised under 10th Infantry Division at Pawan Da Chak in Jammu and Kashmir.93 (Independent) Reconnaissance Squadron, which was raised on 1 April 1970 with AMX-13 tanks was part of the 1st Armoured Division and saw action in the Punjab theatre.[3][4] Major Balraj Sharma of the regiment, while attached to 10 Battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, was part of a counter-insurgency operation at Mongbung, Manipur.There is the numeral "90" inscribed on the crossing of the lances, mounted with the "mailed fist" or gauntlet and a scroll at the base with the Regimental Motto in Devanagari script.