According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.

Units from Parachute Artillery Regiments form the basis of the Special Operations component of the Regiment, from the moment that recon became part of its own tasks, as well as the acquisition of targets and the guidance of laser and precision munitions deployed by air.

At the other extreme the United States Army has an Air Defense Artillery branch that provided ground-based air defence for both homeland and the army in the field.

In the United States Army for instance, air defence is part of the artillery arm, while in the Pakistan Army, it was split off from Artillery to form a separate arm of its own in 1990.

With the exception of those areas covered by the 60th and 200th Coast Artillery ( AA ) Regiment, the Philippine islands were virtually defenseless against air attack.

The 60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense unit of the United States Army.

Upon arrival, this anti-aircraft unit was assigned to USAFFE and ordered to provide air defenses for Clark Field, while based at Fort Stotsenburg, although they were not attached to the Philippine Coast Artillery Command.

In 1997, the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, to join other air defense brigades.

At peak artillery strength in 1965 – 1966 there were six batteries ( two from the Royal Malaysian Artillery ) of 105mm Pack Howitzer, half a battery of 5. 5-in Guns and a section of 4. 2 in Mortars operated by men detached from the light air defence battery defending Kuching airport.

While the Ottoman army positions at Gaza had been reconnoitred and photographed from the air, it was still necessary for the Anzac and Imperial Mounted Division's staffs and the Commander Royal Artillery ( CRA ) to carry out reconnaissances of the Wadi Ghuzzeh in person.

Fulton, a mechanical engineer from the Royal Field Artillery, had been an early enthusiast of military flying and had attended the world's first air show at Rheims in 1909.

" Though the casualties in the air force were small compared with the total strength, the casualty rate of the flying personnel at the front was somewhat above the Artillery and Infantry rates ...

While part of RAF Germany, 63 Squadron deployed to the Falkland Islands on 5 May 1982, taking over responsibility for the air defence of the San Carlos beach head from the Royal Artillery.

* The GSO III ( Intelligence ) coordinated all intelligence training and work in the division ; coordinated the collection and collation of information about enemy dispositions, methods and intentions ; prepared daily intelligence summaries ; coordinated interpretation of air photographs with the Army Photographic Interpretation Section ( APIS ); effected liaison with the APIS, the field security office and the Intelligence Officer, Royal Artillery ( at CRA ); and was responsible for briefing and handling of press correspondents.

The Regiment employed artillery fire from the supporting 210th Field Artillery Brigade, air strikes, and attack helicopters ( both Apaches of 2-1 Aviation and Cobras of Fourth Squadron ) against the Republican Guard units as the armored cavalry squadrons moved east through the security zone.

Artillery fire and air strikes played a large role in the battle, especially in the far north.

* 16th Air Defence Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery – this is the Australian Army's sole air defence regiment, and is based at Woodside in South Australia.

The 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment ( United States ) is an air and missile defense battalion in the United States Army based at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Batteries A, B, and E, along with the 507th Maintenance Company and HHB, 5-52d ADA, were assigned to 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, under Colonel Heidi Brown, the first female Patriot brigade commander, to provide air defense coverage for Coalition forces entering Iraq.

Currently, the RSAF's Chong Pang Camp SADA ( Singapore Air Defence Artillery ), with its associated Air Defence assets, is also located within the compound of the air base as well as the famous local Sembawang Hot Spring.

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About the middle in the 19th century, an officer of the Austrian Marine Artillery conceived the idea of employing a small boat carrying a large charge of explosives, powered by a steam or an air engine and remotely steered by cable to be used against enemy ships.

Artillery fire and constant air raids had caused steady aircraft losses.

The School provides Phase 2 training for recruits to the Royal Artillery: this training includes gunnery, air defence, surveillance and signals.

The landowning unit, 1st Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery, was given twice the land and two additional companies after the first two strikes.

Artillery is the most lethal form of land-based armament ; in the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II the vast majority of combat deaths were caused by artillery.

Under the terms of the Treaty, Luxembourg and the newly formed Duchy of Limburg, both members of the Germanic Confederation, were together required to provide a Federal Contingent distributed among a Light Infantry Battalion garrisoned in Echternach, a Cavalry Squadron in Diekirch, and an Artillery detachment in Ettelbruck.

Although the drawings were bought by the British Ministry of Information, his application was turned down and he was conscripted in the Army, where he served first with the Royal Artillery, then with the Royal Engineers.

These were the Colombo Town Guard and the Town Guard Artillery formed during the two world wars.

To the Volunteer Rifle Corps were added Volunteer Artillery Corps in mid 1859.

The first of these Volunteer Artillery Corps were based in Acukland.

The 101st Engineer Battalion, the 101st Field Artillery Regiment, the 181st Infantry Regiment, and the 182nd Infantry Regiment trace their lineage to the North, South and East Regiments which were formed by legislative act of the Massachusetts Bay General Court on that date.

The first M102s were issued to the 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery, in March 1966.

The systems were managed by the U. S. Army Missile Command ( MICOM ) and deployed by the Field Artillery Branch.

Artillery bombardments on the Western Front became increasingly aimed at cutting the barbed wire that was a major component of trench warfare, particularly once new " wire-cutting " fuzes were introduced midway through the war.

By October 1899 the Transvaal State Artillery had 73 guns, of which 59 of them were new, including four 155-mm Creusot fortress guns, and 25 37mm Maxim Nordenfeldt guns.

Officers from the British Royal Artillery were trained as pilots to fly AOP aircraft for artillery spotting.

These men were from the 5th NY Regiment, Lamb's Artillery, Orange County Militia, and Ulster County Militia.

These positions were supported by the artillery of the first and fourth battalions of the 352nd Artillery Regiment ( twelve 105 mm and four 150 mm howitzers respectively ).

Two companies were deployed at the coast, one in the most easterly series of strongpoints, with artillery support provided by the third battalion of the 352nd Artillery Regiment.

The 64th and 65th Infantry Regiments and the 16th Light Artillery Regiment of the Polish Army were stationed in Grudziądz during the 19 years of the inter-war period.

All three Canadian ( AOP ) RCAF Squadrons were manned by Artillery Officer-pilots and accompanied by non-commissioned RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers.

Among the hospital patients who escaped were a Corporal Mayer of the NNC ; Bombardier Lewis of the Royal Artillery and Trooper Green of the Natal Mounted Police who was wounded in the thigh by a spent bullet.

During the American Civil War, the Albemarle Artillery was recruited in 1862 from Chowan and Tyrrell men at Edenton by local attorney William Badham, Jr .. After cannon were recast from bronze donated as bells from local courthouses and churches to arm the battery, the unit was renamed the Edenton Bell Battery.

Greenwich was one of six host boroughs for the 2012 London Olympics and events were held at the Royal Artillery Barracks ( Shooting ), Greenwich Park ( Equestrianism ) and The O < sub > 2 </ sub >- former Millennium Dome ( Gymnastics ; Basketball ).

The carronade was in service from 1780 to 1860 and is now on loan from the Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich as a reminder of Welling's early association with the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, when huts at East Wickham were built as homes for munitions workers in the Great War.

In 1862, during the American Civil War, the Albemarle Artillery was recruited at Edenton by a local attorney named William Badham, Jr. Its guns were cast from bronze bells taken from courthous and churches in the Edenton area.

Also on parade at this event were the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers of the Honourable Artillery Company of London.

Artillery weapons of this sort have for the most part been superseded by the effective surface-to-air missile systems that were introduced in the 1950s, although they were still retained by many nations.