The 1st Danish Artillery Battalion ( da, 1. Danske Artilleriafdeling, 1DAA) is a part of

Army Combat and Fire Support Center The Army Combat and Fire Support Centre ( da, Hærens Kamp- og Ildstøttecenter), formerly Army Combat School ( da, Hærens Kampskole), was a training centre for the Royal Danish Army, with the purpose of developing, educating and training various ...

and was created after under the

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, after the ''

Danish Artillery Regiment The Danish Artillery Regiment (DAR, da, Danske Artilleriregiment) is an artillery unit of the Royal Danish Army, which was founded on 1 November 2005 when the two artillery regiments in Denmark, King's Artillery Regiment and Queen's Artillery Re ...

'' was disbanded. It is the only remaining military unit in the

Danish Army The Royal Danish Army ( da, Hæren, fo, Herurin, kl, Sakkutuut) is the land-based branch of the Danish Defence, together with the Danish Home Guard. For the last decade, the Royal Danish Army has undergone a massive transformation of structures ...

that is involved with artillery, and is therefore the bearer of the traditions of the former regiment and can trace its roots back to 1684. The battalion is divided into a number of batteries with around 500 personnel in total. 1 DAA provides fielding and training of the army's ability to plan, deploy, manage and operate fire-support such as

howitzer A howitzer () is a long- ranged weapon, falling between a cannon (also known as an artillery gun in the United States), which fires shells at flat trajectories, and a mortar, which fires at high angles of ascent and descent. Howitzers, like ot ...

and heavy mortars at different tactical levels.artilleriet.dk: 1 DAA
/ref> 1 January 2019, 1 DAA was merge back into the reactivated ''

'' as 1st Artillery Battalion (1AA).

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forsvaret.dk/HKIC - Hærens kamp- og ildstøttecenter

artilleriet.dk
Artillery regiments of Denmark Military units and formations established in 2014 2014 establishments in Denmark {{Mil-unit-stub

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