Divisional artillery
As a division artillery are artillery - military units called, leading to the Division troops belong. The division artillery is directly subordinate to the division process organizer . This can already be the case in peacetime or only in crisis and war. The artillery forces at the level below the division are the brigade artillery , at the higher level the corps artillery .
armed forces
Cold War
In the army of the German Federal Armed Forces , the divisional artillery in Army Structure 4 consisted of one artillery regiment per division (same number as the division), each with a field artillery battalion (division number and last digit 1), a rocket artillery battalion (last digit 2) and an observation battalion (last digit 3 ), an accompanying battery and possibly an independent drones battery led. For example, field artillery battalion 121, rocket artillery battalion 122 , observation battalion 123, drone battery 12 and escort battery 12 were subordinate to artillery regiment 12 . The brigade artillery battalions always had the number of the brigade and the final number 5 (e.g. armored artillery battalion 215 of armored brigade 21 ).
With the divisional artillery, the division commander was primarily able to "fight with fire"; H. fight important targets in the depths of space with the long-range howitzers and rocket launchers. With the reconnaissance artillery these goals could be cleared up or general situation reconnaissance carried out. The divisional artillery could also be used for the (direct) fire support of the combat troops, mostly with the troop units deployed in the focus and thus support the main task of the brigade artillery.
The divisional artillery also had the task of bringing special ammunition into effect. The troops were specially trained for this. The use of special ammunition in the brigade artillery was not intended. The backup batteries were supposed to secure the special ammunition.
today
Today there are still four active artillery battalions in the Bundeswehr. The artillery training battalion 325 is subordinate to the 1st Panzer Division , the artillery battalion 131 and the artillery training battalion 345 of the 10th Panzer Division (Bundeswehr) . Only the artillery battalion 295 is a brigade artillery battalion and is subordinate to the Franco-German brigade .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ schematic representation u. a. at: http://www.peterhall.de/srbm/bundeswehr/rakartbtl-div/rakartbtl8.html