Kainuu Artillery Regiment (original) (raw)

Kainuu Artillery Regiment is an artillery unit of the Kainuu Brigade, which is the northernmost one of the three readiness brigades of the Finnish Defence Forces. In its peacetime military training for conscripts, the Artillery Regiment uses: 81 mm light mortars attached to Infantry units, 120 mm heavy mortars 120 KRH 92 fixed on the NA-122 version of the Sisu Nasu all-terrain transport, the 122 mm towed Soviet howitzers (122 H 63), and modern 155 K 98 155 mm guns equipped with an APU to provide (minor) movement without towing vehicles. It also trains all artillery NCO's, including forward observers and mortar leaders.