
The divisional headquarters was at Baden near Vienna the three brigades were based in separate locations, also in the northeast of the country.Ĭold War Rearmed² is required for this Expansion, this is not a standalone addon. Two of the brigades had antitank battalions equipped with self-propelled weapons. Each brigade was composed of one tank battalion, one mechanized infantry battalion, and one self-propelled artillery battalion. The force was organized as a mechanized division consisting of three armored infantry brigades.

The only active units immediately available in an emergency were those of the standing alert force of some 15,000 career soldiers supplemented by eight-month conscripts. On mobilization, these nine commands would convert to a divisional headquarters commanding mobile militia, stationary militia, and other independent units. Each corps included artillery, antitank, antiaircraft, and engineering battalions, and a logistics regiment, all on a cadre basis.Įach of the nine provincial military commands supervised the training and maintenance activities of their training and equipment-holding regiments. Two corps headquarters, one in the east at Graz and one in the west at Salzburg, would, on mobilization, command the provincially organized units in their respective zones. On mobilization, these regiments would disband, with their cadre reassigned to lead reserve units or form replacement regiments and battalions.Īt the army level were a headquarters, guard, and special forces battalions and an artillery battalion at cadre strength. Training of conscripts was conducted by twenty-eight training and equipment-holding regiments (Landwehrstammregimenter). Both the mobile militia and the stationary militia were brought up to strength only in times of mobilization or during periods allotted for refresher training, usually three weeks in June. Under the area defence strategy, which had determined the army's organizational structure until 1993, the army was divided into three principal elements: the standing alert force (Bereitschaftstruppe) of active units, including the air division the mobile militia (Mobile Landwehr), organized as eight mechanized reserve brigades to be deployed to key danger spots in the event of mobilization and the stationary militia (Raumgebundene Landwehr) of twenty-six reserve infantry regiments organized for territorial defence. The Austrian Armed Forces (German: Bundesheer) are the military forces of the Republic of Austria and the main military organisation responsible for the national defence.

It contains Austrian soldiers and equipment around the year 1985. The CWR2 Addon Austrian Armed Forced was released in May 2015.
