The Missile Troops and Artillery (MT & A), (Russian: Ракетные войска и артиллерия, romanized: Raketnyye voyska i artilleriya – РВиА) are a Combat Arm of the Russian Ground Forces, They are the primary means of providing fire on the enemy during combined-arms operations.
They are designed to perform the following main tasks:[1]
achieving and keeping fire superiority over the enemy;
defeat of its means of nuclear attack, manpower, weapons, military and special equipment;
Organisationally the MT & A consist of missile, rocket, artillery brigades, including high-power mixed, artillery battalions, rocket artillery regiments, separate reconnaissance battalions, as well as artillery of combined-arms brigades and military bases.[1]
Further development and increase of combat capabilities of the MT & A of the GF are put into life by means of creating reconnaissance-fire units, including on interim basis, ensuring defeat of targets in real time, equipment of formations and units of the MT & A with high-precision weapons, increasing of firing range and power of the ammunition used, and automation of processes for preparation and firing.[1]
Amongst the oldest combat branches of the Ground Forces with a history dating to 1392, its service anniversary is marked on Missile Troops and Artillery Day, November 27, honoring the gunners and MRL operators who in 1942 fired the first shots of the artillery counterattacks during the long Battle of Stalingrad against the German Sixth Army.
Current organizationedit
Formerly organized into separate divisions today the MT&A are organized into one division, the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division in the Eastern Military District, a number of divisional artillery (self-propelled gun and towed gun) regiments of motor rifle and tank divisions and independent brigades and regiments of field artillery (including MRL and tactical missile brigades).
There are also a number of artillery battalions under regiments and brigades.
Divisional artillery regimentsedit
99th Pomerania Guards Self-Propelled Regiment under the 3rd MRD, Boguchar
275th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment under the 4th GTD, Naro-Fominsk
147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Simferopol Regiment under the 2nd GMRD, Kalininets
856th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment under the 144th GMRD, Yelnya
381st Guards Warsaw Artillery Regiment under the 150th MRD, Novocherkassk
400th Transylvania Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment under the 90th GTD, Chebarkul
50th Guards Artillery Regiment (Training) under the 42nd GMRD, Khankala
872nd Artillery Regiment (Training) under the 127th MRD, Sergeyevka
46th Machinegun Artillery Regiment under the 18th MGAD, Lagunnoe
49th Machinegun Artillery Regiment under the 18th MGAD, Goryachie Klyuchi
Independent brigadesedit
28th Air Defense Rocket Brigade (Central Military District), Mirny
38th Air Defense Rocket Brigade (Eastern Military District)
45th Svir High-Power Artillery Brigade (Western Military District), Tambov
77th Air Defense Rocket Brigade (Southern Military District), Korenovsk
79th Guards Reactive Artillery Brigade (Western Military District)
120th Guards Artillery Brigade (Central Military District), Yurga
202nd Air Defense Rocket Brigade (Western Military District), Naro-Fominsk
232th Guards Reactive Artillery Brigade (Central Military District), Shelekhov
338th Guards Reactive Artillery Brigade (Eastern Military District)
385th Guards Artillery Brigade (Central Military District), Orenburg
439th Guards Reactive Artillery Brigade (Southern Military District), Astrakhan
This article incorporates text by Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
^ abc"Missile Troops and Artillery". Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
^ abcdeYurkevich, Yevgenny; Ripenko, Yury; Chernukhin, Viktor; Vapilin, E. (2019). История отечественной артиллерии в лицах: военачальники, возглавлявшие артиллерию (ракетные войска и артиллерию) в 1700-2019 гг (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 9785041692490.
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