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The Royal New Zealand Artillery forms the Artillery section of the New Zealand Army . In its current form it was founded in 1947 with the amalgamation of the regular and volunteer units of artillery in New Zealand . Today, the RNZA consists of a single regiment:

  • 16 Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery

  • ---Regimental Headquarters

  • ---HQ Battery

  • ---161 Battery (Close Support) - 105 mm Light Gun

  • ---163 Battery (Close Support) - 105 mm Light Gun

  • ---43 Battery (Air Defence) - Mistral VLLAD Missile


In addition, there are a number of Territorial Force artillery units; these were formerly units of the RNZA, but were moved into the structure of the TF battalion groups on the restructuring of the army in the late 1990s:


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