68th Armoured Regiment is an armoured regiment which is part of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. The regiment was raised on 1 March 1968 by Lt Col R.N. Thumby at Ahmednagar. The regiment was raised with Vijayanta tanks. It was raised with Ahir, Gujjar, Maratha and Rajput troops from the artillery, engineers and infantry including some troops from the 66th Armoured Regiment. The regiment was made part of the order of battle of the 1st Armoured Division on 30 March 1970. The regiment could not participate in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 as the armoured division was not committed to battle. In 1985, it was converted to T-72 tanks and served during Operation Trident, Operation Rakshak and Operation Parakram in 2000 - 2001.