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A signal corps is a
military branch Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard a subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state. Types of branches Unified armed forces The Canadian Armed Forces is the unifie ...
, responsible for
military communications Military communications or military signals involve all aspects of communications, or conveyance of information, by armed forces. Examples from '' Jane's Military Communications'' include text, audio, facsimile, tactical ground-based communica ...
(''signals''). Many countries maintain a signal corps, which is typically subordinate to a country's
army An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...
. Military communication usually consists of
radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3  hertz (Hz) and 300  gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...
,
telephone A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most ...
, and digital communications. The first dedicated signal corps of any nation was the
United States Army Signal Corps The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) is a branch of the United States Army responsible for creating and managing Military communications, communications and information systems for the command and control of combined arms forces. It was ...
, established in 1860.


Asia

* Rejimen Semboyan Diraja, Malaysian Royal Signals Regiment *
Indian Army Corps of Signals Indian Army Corps of Signals is a corps and a combat support arm of the Indian Army, which handles its military communications. It was formed on 15 February 1911 as a separate entity under Lieutenant Colonel S H Powell and went on to make import ...
, raised in 1911. *
Pakistan Army Corps of Signals The Pakistan Army Corps of Signals is a military administrative and a combined arms branch of the Pakistan Army. Headquartered in the Army GHQ, the Corps of Signals oversees the communications, information system, and computer security for t ...
, raised in 1947. * Singapore Armed Forces Signals Formation *
Sri Lanka Signals Corps The Sri Lanka Signals Corps (SLSC) ( Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංඥා බලකාය ''Shri Lanka Sana Balakaya'') is a combat support corps of the Sri Lanka Army, responsible for providing military communications, information ...
* Israeli C4I Corps * ''Korps Perhubungan TNI AD'' (Indonesian Army Signal Corps) * Armed Forces of the Philippines Signal Corps *
Signal Department, Royal Thai Army A signal is both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Signals are important in multiple subject fields including signal processing, information theory and biology. In s ...


Australia

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Royal Australian Corps of Signals The Royal Australian Corps of Signals (RASigs) is one of the 'arms' (combat support corps) of the Australian Army. It is responsible for installing, maintaining, and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and information systems. The ...
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Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals The Royal New Zealand Signals Corps (RNZSigs) provides, co-ordinates and operates the communications networks of the New Zealand Army. The role of RNZSigs is to support other Arms by providing Communication Information System required for Comma ...


Europe

* Arma delle Trasmissioni, corps of Italian Army founded in 1953, see List of units of the Italian Army. *
Royal Corps of Signals The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. Signals units are among the first into action, providing the battlefield communications an ...
, founded in the United Kingdom (under the name Telegraph Battalion Royal Engineers) in 1884. * Communications and Information Services Corps (CIS), the signals corps of
Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...
's Defence Forces. *
Communication and Information Systems Groups (CIS) The Communication and Information Systems Groups (Gp CIS), known until 2002 as the Transmission Troops or TTr (, {{langx, fr, Troupes de Transmissions), are the military communications units of the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces. They ...
of the
Belgian Armed Forces The Belgian Armed Forces (; , ) are the combined national military forces of Belgium. The Monarchy of Belgium, King of the Belgians is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The Belgian Armed Forces was established after Belgium Belgian Rev ...
, before: Transmission Troops * Signal Brigade, a unit of the Serbian Armed Forces. *
Telegrafregimentet The Command Support Regiment () is a regiment of the Royal Danish Army. It was established in 1951 with the purpose of training and equipping units to support the Danish army with wartime Command, Control and Communications. Until 1 January 2019 t ...
, Royal Danish Signal Regiment. * Sambandsbataljonen in the
Brigade Nord Brigade Nord (Brig. N.; Northern Brigade) is the major combat formation and only brigade of the Norwegian Army, consisting of eight battalions and one military police company. It is mostly based in Troms (Bardu Municipality and Målselv Municipalit ...
of the
Norwegian Army The Norwegian Army () is the land warfare service branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces. The Army is the oldest of the Norwegian service branches, established as a modern military organization under the command of the King of Norway in 1628. The ...
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Regiment Verbindingstroepen A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, service, or specialisation. In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscripted in one ...
, a regiment of the
Royal Netherlands Army The Royal Netherlands Army (, KL) is the Ground warfare, land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the was raised making the Dutch standing a ...
. * Fernmeldetruppe of
Bundeswehr The (, ''Federal Defence'') are the armed forces of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. The is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consists of the four armed forces: Germ ...
, before:
Signal Corps of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS The Signal Corps or ''Nachrichtentruppe des Heeres'', in the sense of signal troops, was an arm of service in the army of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, whose role was to establish and operate military communications, especially using tel ...
. * Signal Communications Troops of Russia. * Signal Corps (French Army). * Viestirykmentti, Signal Regiment of the Finnish Army. *
Swedish Army Signal Troops Swedish Army Signal Troops (, S) is the signal branch of the Swedish Army. It is responsible for installing, maintaining and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and information systems, providing command support to commanders and ...
.


North America

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Royal Canadian Corps of Signals The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (RCCS or RC Sigs; ) is a component within the Canadian Armed Forces' Communications and Electronics Branch, consisting of all members of that personnel branch who wear army uniform. Prior to 1968 it was a combat ...
, formed in 1903 as the Canadian Signalling Corps *
United States Army Signal Corps The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) is a branch of the United States Army responsible for creating and managing Military communications, communications and information systems for the command and control of combined arms forces. It was ...
, founded in 1860 by Major Albert J. Myer


See also

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Military communications Military communications or military signals involve all aspects of communications, or conveyance of information, by armed forces. Examples from '' Jane's Military Communications'' include text, audio, facsimile, tactical ground-based communica ...
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Telegraph troops Telegraph troops are responsible for the establishment of their own side’s telegraphic communications in war and for the disruption of the enemy’s telegraphic communications. The telegraph troops created in Prussia in 1830 within the New P ...


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