Regiment of Artillery
Cap Badge of the Regiment of Artillery
Active1947 (1947)
Country Pakistan
Branch Pakistan Army
TypeCombat service support
RoleAdministrative and staffing oversight.
Size45 battalion-sized Regiments
HQ/GarrisonArmy GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab in Pakistan
Nickname(s)ARTY
ColorsRed and Blue[1]
  
EngagementsMilitary history of Pakistan
Commanders
Director-GeneralMaj-Gen. Amir Naveed Warraich
Notable
commanders		Gen. Pervez Musharraf
Lt-Gen. S.M. Abbasi
The Pakistan Army's troops operating the M115 howitzer in 1965.

The Regiment of Artillery is the military administrative and combat support branch of the Pakistan Army.[2]

Reporting direct from the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, the regiment itself is an administrative with many of its units deployed as part of maneuver strike corps.[2]

History

After the partition of former British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Artillery was split between the Indian Army and the Pakistan Army, which Pakistan renamed it as "Royal Pakistan Artillery" in 1947.[3][4] In 1947, the Regiment inherited only eight regiments, one survey battery, an air observation post flight, and two formation headquarters.: 77 [5] From 1947–56, the Pakistan Army was forced to keep the British Army officers to maintain administrative support of the Royal Pakistan Artillery despite British preference of the Indian Army.: 83 [5]

In 1956, the artillery was reorganized as Regiment of Artillery with the field manuals being adopted from the United States Army's Field Artillery Branch through U.S. aid which allowed the army to be aligned on American training patterns.[3] The Regiment of Artillery in the British lines were equipped with 24 guns held in three batteries, further divided into two troops of four guns each.[3] The Pakistan Army adopted the U.S. Army system of 18 guns in each regiment, divided in three batteries of six guns each.[4]

The education and training for the troops to be part of the Regiment of Artillery is offered by the School of Artillery which was established by the Pakistan Army in 1947 at Nowshera Cantonment.[3][4] The Regiment of Artillery is commanded by the active-duty two-star, major-general, who serves its director-general, working directly under the Chief of the General Staff (CGS) at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab in Pakistan.[6]

Units

  • 830 Mujahid Field Regiment

Artillery

  • 831 Mujahid Field Regiment

Artillery

Key
    • SP = Self Propelled
    • MBRL = Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher
    • MLRS = Multiple Launching Rocket System

References

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  4. 1 2 3 ISPR 2009.
  5. 1 2 Cheema, Pervaiz I.; Riemer, Manuel (22 August 1990). Pakistan's Defence Policy 1947-58. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-20942-2. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Alam, Dr Shah (1 July 2012). Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement and Capacity Building. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. ISBN 978-93-81411-79-7. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) visited School of Artillery, Nowshera". Inter-Services Public Relations. 19 May 2022.
  8. ↑ Mckay, Jennifer. "First World War Finding Pakistan's Place in History". Hilal: The Pakistan Armed Forces Magazine. Government of Pakistan. Retrieved 16 December 2022. today is known as 1st SP Medium Regiment Artillery
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  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 27 January 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
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  18. 1 2 "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 16 June 2021. p. 243. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  19. 1 2 "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II. Notifications issued by the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Defence Production" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 9 September 2020. p. 492. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
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  24. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  25. ↑ "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 21 April 2021. p. 108. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  26. ↑ "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 23 December 2020. p. 605. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  27. ↑ "COAS Attends the Closing Ceremony of 42nd Pakistan Army Rifle Association Central Meet". Hilal: The Pakistan Armed Forces Magazine. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  28. ↑ "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 25 November 2020. p. 586. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  29. ↑ "The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II" (PDF). Government of Pakistan. 28 April 2021. p. 111. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
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