The Slovak Security Division was formed on September 1st 1941 from the old 2nd Slovak Infantry Division. It was stationed in northern Ukraine and Belorussia where it was used to fight the partisans along with a mix of German, Hungarian and Baltic troops. It requested armoured vehicles, but when those requests were turned down, they built a kind of armoured train that was used on the Zinsk-Gomel line with some success, possibly inspired by the German No 25 armoured train that operated in the same area. It also had a fighter squadron and an observation squadron assigned to the division, used both for observations and attacks on the partisan units.