Country Sweden | Role Amphibious warfare | |
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Founded July 1, 2000; 16 years ago (2000-07-01) March "För kustartilleriet" by Dohlin | ||
The Amphibious Corps (Swedish: Amfibiekåren) is the coastal defence arm of the Swedish Navy. Until 2000 it was known as Coastal Artillery (Swedish: Kustartilleriet), but the name was changed to reflect its different role in a post-Cold War world, where its amphibious special operations arm, the Coastal Rangers, has grown in significance while its coastal batteries have been decommissioned.
Organization
The Amphibious Regiment is the main combat unit of the Amphibious Corps. With its anti-ship missiles, controllable mines and Coastal Rangers, as well as Marine infantry units, it can exercise control in littoral areas.
The core component of the Amphibious Corps is the 1st Marine Regiment, primarily based at Berga naval base near Stockholm.
In addition to that VBSS troop, the company also has Anti-submarine warfare capable units based in Gothenburg.
Also based in Gothenburg, is the Marine component of the 13th Security Battalion.
In addition, the 1st Marine Regiment is also responsible for training three Home Guard battalions, one of whom is based on Gotland. These are the: