Russian Missile Troops and Artillery


The Missile Troops and Artillery 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:
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.
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.
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 organization

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 regiments of motor rifle and tank divisions and independent brigades and regiments of field artillery.

Divisional artillery regiments