The changed name and new structure were to reflect the new tasks that the old Coastal Artillery had moved to after the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Warsaw Pact.

Since the establishment of the fixed mine defence units during the 19th century, the question of an independent branch of the Swedish Armed Forces was again raised.

[3] It consisted of 1 chief (general officer) and other personnel, distributed among 2 regiments, Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 1) and Karlskrona Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 2), comprising (in 1911) a total of 99 officers (colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, and underlöjtnant's), 166 non-commissioned officers (of the 1st degree: styckjunkare ("gunnery sergeants"), flaggjunkare ("chief petty officers"), flaggmaskinister ("chief machinists"), flaggrustmästare ("chief gunsmiths"), and stabstrumpetare ("staff buglers"); of the 2nd degree: sergeants, staff buglers, machinists, rustmästare, and torpedmästare ("torpedo masters")), and 1,361 enlisted personnel (corporals, lance corporals, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class coastal artillerymen) along with conscripts.

The detachment at Fårösund was reorganised as a separate unit in 1937 and renamed Gotland Coastal Artillery Regiment in 1937.

During World War II and onwards, about 60 coastal artillery batteries were built along the Swedish coast.

Units that where stationed around the more important shipping lanes and other naval installations around Sweden were fully manned, even in peacetime.

Therefore, the guns made by Bofors with related combat management, radar and air defence received a powerful protection against all kinds of chemical warfare agents.

The Coastal Artillery also modernized its ASW or anti-submarine capabilities in a response to the submarine incursions that plagued Sweden during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Also, this was a step towards an increased ability to monitor and maintain high level of surveillance of Sweden’s harbours and shipping lanes against any foreign undersea aggression or incursion into Swedish territorial waters.

In the autumn of 1985, composer Åke Dohlin thought that the Coastal Artillery should have its own march, and in this way "För kustartilleriet" was added.