The Mountain Artillery Group "Udine" (Italian: Gruppo Artiglieria da Montagna "Udine") is an inactive mountain artillery group of the Italian Army, which was based in Vacile in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

[4] The group was reformed in 1957 and assigned to the 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Alpine Brigade "Julia".

The regimental anniversary falls, as for all Italian Army artillery units, on June 15, the beginning of the Second Battle of the Piave River in 1918.

The 2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment retained the numbers of the batteries of the Group "Bergamo" (16th, 17th, 18th) and assigned them to the batteries of the newly formed Mountain Artillery Group "Udine", which was formed on the same date in Udine.

The Mountain Artillery Group "Udine" was deployed in 1915 at Tolmin and fought for control of the hills of Bučenica and Mengore.

In November 1916 the regiment formed the 56th Mountain Artillery Battery for the Group "Udine".

[6][5] In 1917 the group fought at Kostanjevica na Krasu and then on the Banjšice plateau, before being sent to Monte Tomba.

After the reorganization the new 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment consisted of the groups "Conegliano" and "Udine".

In October 1940 the regiment was transferred to Albania to shore up the crumbling Italian front during the Greco-Italian War.

The Group "Udine" deployed to the Soviet Union with the following organization:[4][7][8][9] In July 1942 the three alpine division, grouped together in the Alpine Army Corps, arrived in Eastern Ukraine, from where they marched eastwards towards the Don river.

In January 1943 the Alpine Army Corps was forced to retreat to escape encirclement during the Soviet Operation Little Saturn.

For its bravery and sacrifice in the Soviet Union the regiment was awarded a Gold Medal of Military Valor.

On 12 September the regiment and its groups were disbanded near Udine by invading German forces.

On 30 September 1975 the 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment was disbanded and the next day its remaining three groups became autonomous units and were assigned to the Alpine Brigade "Julia".