Regiment of Artillery (Pakistan)

Pakistan Army's staff corps for artillery warfare

Regiment of Artillery

Cap Badge of the Regiment of Artillery

Active| 1947; 78 years ago (1947)
Country|  Pakistan
Branch|  Pakistan Army
Type| Combat service support
Role| Administrative and staffing oversight.
Size| 45 battalion-sized Regiments
HQ/Garrison| Army GHQ in Chaklala Cantonment, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan
Nickname(s)| ARTY
Colors| Red and Blue[1]

Engagements| Military history of Pakistan
Commanders
Director-General| Maj-Gen. Amir Naveed Warraich
Notable
commanders| Gen. Pervez Musharraf
Gen. Tikka Khan
Gen. Sawar Khan
Gen. Zubair Hayat
Lt-Gen. S.M. Abbasi
Lt-Gen. Asif Ghafoor

Military unit

Administrative Corps of the Pakistan Army

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Armored|  Aviation
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

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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

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* The First (SP) Medium Regiment (FF)(Pur Azam Ba Waqar)
* 2 Field (Chamb Di Rani)
* 3 (SP) (Bijli Topkhana)
* 4 Medium (Fighting Four)
* 5 MRLS (Al Shurraz)
* 6 MRLS (The Grid Smashers)
* 7 Mountain (Gola Of Babot)
* 8 Medium (Eight The Great)
* 9 Medium (Ghazian E Chajja)
* 10 Medium (The Tenicious) (Sharp & Deadly)
* 11 Medium (Chamb Ikatar) (Gyara Josh Ka Dhara)
* 12 Medium (Raad Un Wa Barq) (Zafarwal Medium)
* 13 MBRL
* 14 Field (ABBASIA)
* 15 (SP) (The Star Regt) (Fighting Fifteen)
* 16 (SP) (The Dashing Sixteen)
* 17 Locating (Aik Sath)
* 18 (SP) Field (Khush Bash Athara)
* 19 MBRL (Atish o Ahan)
* 20 MBRL (Zarb E Shadeed)
* 21 Medium (Punjab) (Gajj K Wajj)
* 22 Field (Gram Dam E Justuju)
* 23 (SP) Field (Guns Of Wagah)
* 24 Medium (Zarb Ul Awwal)
* 25 Field (Leepa Pioneers)

* 26 Field (Vanguards of Rah E Raast)
* 27 Medium
* 28 Medium (But Shikan)
* 29 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991.
* 30 (SP) Heavy Regiment (Zilzaal)
* 31 Mountain (The Only One)
* 32 Medium (September Maroons)
* 33 (SP) Heavy (Janfishan)
* 34 Medium (Happy" Heavy Artillery Power Punch")
* 35 (SP) Heavy (Sherni)
* 36 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 37 Locating (Proud Locators) (First To Locate)
* 38 Field (Kargil Topkhana)
* 39 (SP) (Discipline, Efficiency, Teamwork) (Har Dum Pur Dum) (Chamb 65-71)
* 40 Field (Taigh E Burran)
* 41 ?
* 42 Field (The Flaming Blue)
* 43 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 44 (SP) (Men of Crisis)
* 45 Field
* 46 Field (Golandaz)
* 47 Field (Heaven of heavens)
* 48 Field (The Hard Hitters)
* 49 Field (Zarb Ul Hai)
* 50 Field (Al Haamiyah)
* 51 Medium (Mandiala Gunners) ~ (Tatla's Own)
* 52 Medium
* 53 Field (Tarwanja Sheer Da Panja)
* 54 Medium (Zarb E Haider) ~(Mty Bhatti's Own)
* 55 Field (Pachwanja, Jessore Khulna, Sada Panja Dada Panja)
* 56 Field (An Nasir)
* 57 Medium (Fakhar E Jassar)
* 58 ?
* 59 Field (Five Nine The Very Fine) ~ (Changazi's Own)
* 60 Medium (Hizb Ul Hadeed) (Sialkot 71, Kargil 99, OAM 16)
* 61 (SP) (Ek sath)
* 62 Field
* 63 Medium (Nothing But The Best)
* 64 Medium (Victors Of Chamb)
* 65 Medium (Pensath) (Ready & Alive)
* 66 Medium (Tabah Kun)
* 67 (SP) LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 68 Mountain (Daruchain 71)
* 69 Medium (Hum Nasir) (Bravo 69)
* 70 Field (Ghazi E Kanganpur)
* 71 Field (Saf Shikan)
* 72 (SP) Medium (Behter) (Shakargarh Medium 71)(The Shakargarh SP)(Flag Bearers)
* 73 Medium
* 74 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 75 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 76 Field (July Jolt) (Sabuna 71)
* 77 Field (Sath Sath)(Facta Non Verba)
* 78 Field (Al Qariah)
* 79 Field (Fauq Ul Ahsan)
* 80 Field (Ghazi E Hilli)
* 81 Medium (Jannat Talwaron K Saye Talay)
* 82 (SP) (The Kargil Hunters)(HAQ HOO) ~(Bobby's Own)
* 83 Medium (On Target)
* 84 Field (Pasban E Hurriat)
* 85 Medium (Al Saiqa) (Chhor 71)
* 86 Field (Seena Sipar)
* 87 (SP) Medium (1971) (The Aala Regt)
* 88 ?
* 89 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 90 Medium (Pur Azam Ba Hadaf) (Kamra Saviours)
* 91 Field (Mighty One)
* 92 Mountain (Muhammadia)
* 93 Medium (The Shaheen Regt)
* 94 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 95 ?
* 96 Missile Regt (Shaheen Ba Hadaf)
* 97 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 98 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 99 Medium (Taholi Shine)
* 100 ?
* 101 Field Mountain (NLI) (The Kargil Field)(The Century First) (Sherdill Ababeel Sabit Qadam)
* 102 ?
* 103 ?
* 104 LAA transferred to Army Air Defence in 1991
* 105 Field (Al Shadeed)
* 105 Locating
* 106 Medium
* 107 Mountain (Siachen Awwaleen)
* 107 Locating—109 Medium (Heavy Haavy)
* 110 Field (Ek Do Das Zabardast)
* 115 Medium (har Dum purdum)
* 117 Medium (Zarb Ul Hadeed)
* 118 Medium (Al Ghalib IllAllah) (Lashkara)
* 119 - 127 Artillery Units
* 128 Field (Har Waqt Bar Waqt)
* 129 Field (Fit n Fine) (Deedban E Kargil)
* 130 Medium (Zarb E Ajal)
* 131 SP (Al Mujazif)
* 132 Medium (Har Dum Pur Dam)
* 137 Medium (Highway To Heaven)
* 138 (SP) (Zinda Dill)
* 139 (SP)
* 140 (SP) (Dast E Ajal)
* 149 Medium (Sholah Fishan) ~ (Lt Arslan's Own)
* 150 Medium (Ek Panjah)
* 151 Medium (Al Saddad)
* 152 Medium (Al Sadat)
* 153 Medium (Mudafi Ul Harmain)
* 154 (SP) (Ek Churwanja) (Sher da Punja)
* 155 Missile Regt(The Pioneers)
* 156 Locating (The Striking Locators)
* 157 Locating
* 158 Locating (The Great)
* 159 Locating (Vigilant Tracker)
* 160 Field
* 161 Field (Second To None)
* 162 Field (Mountain Hawks)
* 163 Field (Zarb Ul Mateen)
* 164 Field (Steel & Fire)
* 165 Field (Marala)
* 166 Medium (Zarb E Ahan)
* 168 Field (Proud & Great)
* 169 SP (Waseleen E Hadaf)
* 170 Field
* 171 Field (As Sawaiq)
* 172 MLRS
* 172 MBRL
* 173 Medium (Al Takbeer)
* 174 Medium (The Flying Arrows)
* 175 Missile Regt (First To Fire) " Shandar Regt"
* 176 Missile Regt
* 177 Missile Regt
* 178 - 179 Artillery Units
* 180 MLRS (First to fire Shaheen 2)
* 181 MRA (The cruise pioneer)(Shahab E Saqib Regt)
* 182 Artillery Unit
* 183 Medium (NLI) (Bombrash)
* 184 (SP) Medium (Sholah Jawan)
* 185 Field (Fakhar E Margalla)
* 186 Mountain (Barq O Raad)
* 189 Missile Regt
* 193 Missile Regt — 196 Mountain Regt (Artillery)
* 197 Missile Regt (The Deterrent)
* 198 Missile Regt
* 199 Missile Regt (Hizbullah)
* 200 Medium
* 830 MJD Field
* 831 MJD Field (Chamb Tigers)
* 832 MJD Field
* 833 MJD Medium (Takbeeries)
* 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

## References

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1. ^ "ZFC - International Military Colors & Flgs". www.flagcollection.com. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
2. ^ a b "Artillery – Pakistan Army". Retrieved 14 December 2023.
3. ^ a b c d Bokhari 1998.
4. ^ a b c ISPR 2009.
5. ^ a b 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.

* Bokhari, EAS (Colonel, Retired) (July 1998). "50 Years of the Regiment of Artillery". Defence Journal. Directorate-General of Military History (Army Division). Archived from the original on 23 May 2000. Retrieved 7 May 2023.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* ISPR (10 November 2017). "Press Release No PR-554/2017-ISPR". Inter-Services Public Relations.
* ISPR. "Corps of Artillery". Directorate-General of Military History. Directorate-General for Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Archived from the original on 2009-07-05. Retrieved 2023-05-07.

## External links

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* Pakistan Army's Corps of Artillery. GHQ: Pakistan Military Television Network.
* Regiment of Artillery: History
* Regiment of Artillery: Present war

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