The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment/Field Artillery Battery ParaCommando (Dutch: 2 Regiment Veldartillerie/Batterij Veldartillerie ParaCommando) or 2A was an artillery battalion in the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces. The regiment was the field artillery battalion of the 1st Brigade until 2010. In later years, the M109A2 howitzer was replaced by the 120mm mortar MO-120. 2A existed out of 4 batteries:
- Mortar By
- WFS By
- DLOC By
- H&S By
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