Brigade artillery
As Brigade artillery a is Brigade artillery battalion ( BrigArtBtl ) as troops part of the artillery denotes that a combat troops brigade is assumed. The subordination can already take place in the peace structure or only in the operation and V case. The artillery forces of the level immediately above the brigades are the divisional artillery , above that today the corps artillery is less common .
armed forces
Cold War
structure
In the army of the German Federal Armed Forces , the Brigade Artillery was the division of the Army after army structure 4 each brigade principle of a Panzerartilleriebataillon as Brigade artillery battalion. It basically had the same number as the brigade and the last number 5.
Each brigade artillery battalion basically consisted of a staff and several (usually three) subordinate tubular batteries. Each tube battery had two trains of three M109 self-propelled howitzers . In action, the battalion commander would have been deployed from the brigade's command post as brigade artillery commander. The deputy battalion commander would have led the brigade artillery battalion itself.
assignment
With the brigade artillery, the brigade commander could above all give his combat troops artillery fire support . Primarily, this took place with the combat troops deployed in the focus. However, the brigade commander also had the option of quickly shifting the focus of the fire. Subordinate was the “Fight with Fire” mission in which important targets are fought in the depths of the room. There was also a lack of correspondingly far-reaching educational and active means.
The artillery observers of the brigade artillery battalion were instructed to cooperate with a combat troop company . They were led by the fire support officer, who relied on cooperation with the battalion commander and was his artillery adviser. The artillery reconnaissance radar was able to contribute to target and situation reconnaissance.
The use of special ammunition as part of nuclear participation was not planned at the brigade level.
today
Today there are still four active artillery battalions in the Bundeswehr, three of them divisional artillery and one brigade artillery battalion ( ArtBtl 295 ). Artillery forces at corps level are no longer provided.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armored Artillery Battalion. In: Bundeswehr location database . www.zmsbw.de, accessed on April 25, 2020 .