Rocket Forces and Artillery (Ukraine)

Rocket Forces and Artillery (Ukrainian: Ракетні війська та артилерія, Raketni Viys’ka ta artyleriya) of the Ukrainian Ground Forces consist of units armed with tactical missiles, howitzers, cannons, mortars, jet-propelled and anti-tank artillery. They are tasked to destroy human resources, tanks, artillery, anti-tank weapons, aircraft, air defense and other important installations operations.^[2][3]

Current structure

• 19th Rocket Brigade - Khmelnytskyi
• 11th Artillery Brigade - Ternopil
• 26th Artillery Brigade - Berdychiv
• 55th Artillery Brigade - Zaporizhia
• 15 Reactive Artillery Regiment - Drohobych
• 107th Reactive Artillery Regiment - Kremenchuk
• 27th Reactive Artillery Regiment - Sumy^[4]
• Brigade Artillery Group of 24th Mechanized Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 28th Mechanized Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 30th Mechanized Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 51st Mechanized Brigade
• 55th Brigade Artillery Group of 72nd Mechanized Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 92nd Mechanized Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 93rd Mechanized Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 128th Mechanized Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 1st Armored Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 17th Armored Brigade
• Brigade Artillery Group of 25th Airborne Brigade

Equipment

• Tochka U missile complexes of operational-tactical and tactical missiles
• Grad, Uragan, Smerch multi-launcher rocket systems
• Gvozdika, Akatsiya, Giatsint, Pion, Msta-S, Msta-B, D-30 howitzers
• 9K114 Shturm, 9M113 Konkurs, 2A29/MT-12 Rapira anti-tank weapons
• 82 mm and 120 mm mortars

References

• (Russian) Feskov - V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945–91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004
• (Russian) Lenskiy - А. Г. Ленский, Сухопутные силы РККА в предвоенные годы. Справочник. — Санкт-Петербург Б&К, 2000