I would like to know about the RATIO of Rocket Artilerry to Tube Artilerry in a Artilerry regiment
Do you have a specific military in mind? Each military will have different requirements due to their different needs, objectives and philosophies. For the US, rocket artillery and tube artillery (howitzers and mortars) are assigned different roles and to different regiments or divisions. We operation on a "need" basis and change our ratios based on the requirements of a battlefield.
We don't use rocket artillery in cities, but mortars are going to do the job very effectively. Conversely, rockets are very effective against enemy armor, but mortars are near useless. Different requirements lead to different regimental outlooks in different militaries.
If you have a specific military in mind, please let me know.
However, this is the typical outlook for a US artillery group:
Artillery Groups.
- Temporary, mission-oriented groups are a command and organizational structure that ensure flexibility in concentrating artillery fire. The commander and staff of the artillery brigade or battalion usually form the core of the group.
- The goal of forming artillery groups is to provide ample fire support to the maneuver commander to conduct an operation. Army, corps, division, and brigade artillery groups provide continuous artillery support to maneuver commanders with the required degree of centralized control.
- Artillery groups usually consist of at least two battalions of field guns, howitzers, gun-howitzers, and/or MRLs.
- Artillery groups will disperse as much as possible to avoid becoming a target for BLUFOR precision weapons, air attack, and counterfire.
(1) Army Artillery Group (AAG).
- Army group artillery assets distributed to committed armies in proportion to the importance of the assigned task.
- Formed from army and/or army group artillery battalions remaining after the army has allocated artillery to its first echelon divisions.
- Tasks are counterfire and the deep target engagement (precision weapons, headquarters, air defenses, and reserve).
- An army may form more than one AAG.
- Composed of at least two battalions.
- Normally composed of gun and/or rocket launcher battalions.
(2) Army Rocket Artillery Group (ARAG).
- Formed from army and/or army group MRL brigades.
- Composed of three to seven MRL brigades.
- Normally fires under centralized control in support of the army’s main attack axis.
(3) Division Artillery Group (DAG).
- Formed from division artillery regiment and any allocated army/front artillery battalions after the division has allocated artillery to its first echelon brigades.
- More than one DAG may be formed per division.
- Normally has counterbattery mission.
- Composed of two to six battalions.
- May have gun, gun-howitzer, howitzer, and rocket launcher battalion.
- Divisional rocket launcher battalion is normally assigned to a DAG.
(4) Brigade Artillery Group (BRAG).
- Formed from the brigade artillery battalion plus at least one other battalion allocated to the regiment from division.
- Only one BRAG per brigade.
- Normally provides fires in support of maneuver elements.
- Composed of howitzer or gun-howitzer battalions.
- Has from two to four battalions.
(5) Artillery Support to Maneuver Battalion.
- An artillery battalion or battery may be directly attached to a maneuver battalion. These artillery units will not be part of any artillery group.
f. Artillery Command Relationships.
Attached - The maneuver commander has total control of the unit.
Supporting - The parent artillery organization retains control, but delegates fires to a unit.
g. Target Damage Criteria.
(1) Annihilation.
- Renders unobserved targets combat-ineffective.
- Against a point target, sufficient rounds will be expended to assure a 70 to 90% probability of a kill.
- Against an area target, sufficient rounds will be expended to destroy 50 to 60% of the targets within the group.
(2) Destruction.
- A subset of annihilation.
- Refers to engineer works such as fortifications and bridges.
- Renders targets unfit for further use.
(3) Neutralization.
- Inflicts enough losses on a target to cause it to temporarily lose its combat effectiveness, restrict or prohibit its maneuver or disrupt its C2.
- Sufficient rounds must be expended to destroy 30% of unobserved targets.
(4) Harassment.
- Limited fires designed to apply psychological pressure on the BLUFOR and hinder movement.
- Inhibits maneuver
- Weakens blue combat readiness and lowers morale
