Regiment of Artillery (Pakistan)

The Regiment of Artillery, also known as the Artillery Regiment or Artillery Regiment Corps, is the military administrative and combat support branch of the Pakistan Army.
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.

History

After 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. In 1947, the Regiment inherited only eight regiments, one survey battery, an air observation post flight, and two formation headquarters. 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.
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. 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. The Pakistan Army adopted the U.S. Army system of 18 guns in each regiment, divided in three batteries of six guns each.
The Regiment of Artillery is considered the most prestigious arm of the Pakistan Army. 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. 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 at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab in Pakistan.

Units

The First Medium Regiment
2 Field
3
4 Medium
5 MLRS
6 MLRS
7 Mountain
8 Medium
109 Medium
9 Medium
10 Medium
11 Medium
12 Medium
13 MBRL
14 Field
15
16
17 Locating
18 Field
19 MBRL
20 MBRL
21 Medium
22 Field
23 Field
24 Medium
25 Field
26 Field
27 Medium
28 Medium
29 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991.
30 Heavy Regiment
31 Mountain
32 Medium
33 Heavy
34 Medium
35 Heavy
36 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
37 Locating
38 Field
39
40 Field
41 ?
42 Field
43 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
44
45 Field
46 Field
47 Field
48 Field
49 Field
50 Field
51 Medium ~
52 Medium
53 Field
54 Medium ~
55 Field
56 Field
57 Medium
58 ?
59 Field ~
60 Medium
61
62 Field
63 Medium
64 Medium
65 Medium
66 Medium
67 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
68 Mountain
69 Medium
70 Field
71 Field
72 Medium
73 Medium
74 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
75 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
76 Field
77 Field
78 Field
79 Field
80 Field
81 Medium
82 ~
83 Medium
84 Field
85 Medium
86 Field
87 Medium
88 ?
89 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
90 Medium
91 Field
92 Mountain
93 Medium
94 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
95 ?
96 Missile Regt
97 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
98 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
99 Medium
100 ?
101 Field Mountain
102 ?
103 ?
104 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
105 Field
105 Locating
106 Medium
107 Mountain
110 Field
115 Medium
117 Medium
118 Medium
119 - 127 Artillery Units
128 Field
129 Field
130 Medium
131 SP
132 Medium
137 Medium
138
139
140
149 Medium ~
150 Medium
151 Medium
152 Medium
153 Medium
154
155 Missile Regt
156 Locating
157 Locating
158 Locating
159 Locating
160 Field
161 Field
162 Field
163 Field
164 Field
165 Field
166 Medium
168 Field
169 SP
170 Field
171 Field
172 MLRS
172 MBRL
173 Medium
174 Medium
175 Missile Regt " Shandar Regt"
176 Missile Regt
177 Missile Regt
178 - 179 Artillery Units
180 MLRS
181 MRA
182 Artillery Unit
183 Medium
184 Medium
185 Field
186 Mountain
189 Missile Regt
193 Missile Regt — 196 Mountain Regt
197 Missile Regt
198 Missile Regt
199 Missile Regt
200 Medium
830 MJD Field
831 MJD Field
832 MJD Field
833 MJD Medium
836 MJD Medium

;Key

Field = Field Regiment Artillery
Medium = Medium Regiment Artillery
SP = Self Propelled Regiment Artillery
MBRL = Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher Regiment Artillery
MLRS = Multiple Launch Rocket System Regiment Artillery
Missile Regt = Missile Regiment Artillery
Mountain = Mountain Regiment Artillery
Locating = Locating Regiment Artillery
MJD = Mujahid Regiment Artillery