Kainuu Artillery Regiment

Kainuu Artillery Regiment is an artillery unit of the Kainuu Brigade, which is the northernmost one of the three readines brigades of the defence forces of Finland.

In its peace time military training for the consripts the Artillery Regiment uses 81 mm light mortars attached to Infantry units, 120 mm heavy mortars 120 KRH 92 fixed on TeKa:s, the 122 mm Soviet howitzers (122 H 63), and modern 155 K 98 155 mm guns equipped with APU to provide (minor) movement without towing vehicles. It also trains all artillery NCO's, including forward observers and mortar leaders.

1st Artillery Battery
The 1st Artillery Battery provides emplacement training for the artillery. The purpose of the training is to provide the gun emplacements and the measurement and command sections needed by the battalion. All conscrips are trained to use many different gun models. Some conscripts of the each contingend is also trained to use a rocket launcher.

Also some supporting functions are trained like medical, financial, logistics and weapon maintenance.

2nd Artillery Battery
The 2nd Artillery Battery has the same kind of trainin as the 1st Artillery Battery, however those conscripts, who will be commanded to the non-commissioned officer training will be transferred from the 1st Artillery Battery to the 2nd Artillery battery.

NCO training is offered in the branches of Gun Emplacement, Fire Control, Signals and Mortar. After Non-Commissioned Officer Course 1, the top students will be commanded to the Reserve Officer School.

The Non-Commissioned Officers training for maintenance duties will be ordered to the Häme Regiment, among others, for the duration of NCO Course 2 to receive training in their own special field. During NCO Course 2, students are given down-to-earth and efficient training focused on leadership and mastering the know-how of the training branch in practice.

Achievements
In military training inspections the Kainuu Artillery Regiment has been most successful of the all artillery units in Finland. It has won in 2010 the following prizes:


 * prize of the battle groups (2010)
 * prize of artillery batteries (2010)
 * artillery general Nenonen's fire opening competition prize (2010)
 * prize of the mortar companies (no other contestants in 2010)