18th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

18-я зенитно-ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 01707; from 1974: 64490; from 1992: 54159

Activated 1961 in Arnstadt, East Germany as the 335th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, from the 142nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade.

1960's with S-75 battalions at Gotha, Weimar, Jena and Rudolfstadt.

1974 renamed 18th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

Organisation 1980:

• 519th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Meiningen) - military unit: 65453
• 520th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Arnstadt) - military unit: 51462
• 526th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Saalfeld) - military unit: 68504

In 1985 the 923rd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion was activated, when the brigade converted to the Buk (SA-11) missile, as the first brigade in Germany.

Organisation 1988:

• 519th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Meiningen) - military unit: 65453 [50 35 37N, 10 25 16E]
• 520th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Mühlhausen) - military unit: 51462 [51 13 47N, 10 28 21E]
• 526th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Bad Langensalza) - military unit: 68504 [51 07 36N, 10 38 21E]
• 923rd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Gotha-Trügleben) - military unit: 68591 [50 57 24N, 10 38 30E]

Disbanded 2012.

Headquarters:

• Arnstadt, East Germany, 1961 - 1984 [50 51 41N, 10 57 10E]
• Gotha, East Germany, 1984 - 1992 [50 56 21N, 10 39 58E]
• Pontonnoye, Leningrad Oblast, 1992 - 2011 [60 42 00N, 29 50 18E]
• Kyakhta, Buryatskaya ASSR, 2011 - 2012

Equipment:

• S-75 (SA-2), 1961 - 1974
• Krug (SA-4), 1974 - 1985
• Buk (SA-11), 1985 - today

Subordination:

• 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, 1961 - 1992
• Leningrad Military District, 1992 - 2011
• Transbaykal Military District, 2011 - 2012