Largest Branch of Armed Forces in India
Only persons to get Field Marshall in Indian Army, the highest honor – SHFJ Manekshah and KM Cariappa
Previously, the British Indian Army and after independence changed to Indian Army
Helped in
First war with Pakistan in 1948
Liberation of Hyderabad – 1948
Participation in UN Peace keeping forces
Goa, Daman and Diu operation against Portugal in 1961 – Operation Vijay
Indo china conflict – 1962
Indo-pakistan war of 1965 (against pak’s Operation Gibraltar and Operation Grand Slam)
Bangladesh Liberation War 1971
Counter Insurgency Activities (Operation Bluestar and Operation Woodrose)
Kargil Operation 1999
Operation Parakram for countering the attack on the Indian Parliament
Operation Sanghe Shakti
Exercise Aswamedha – network centric warfare capabilities
Army HQ is at New Delhi
Southern Command – Pune
Central Command – Lucknow
Eastern Command – Kolkata
Western Command – Chandigarh
Northern Command – Udhampur
ARTRAC – Shimla
South Western Command – Jaipur
Rank Structure:
- Field Marshall
- General
- Lieutenant General
- Major- General (a Division is headed by him)
- Brigader (heads a Brigade)
- Colonel (heads a Batallion)
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Major (heads a company)
- Captain
- Lieutenant (heads a platoon)
- Second Lieutenant – now this is being discontinued
The Indian Army reports to the Ministry of Defence except for the below quasi army arms which report to the ministry of Home Affairs. These are headed by Director Generals
- Rashtriya Rifles
- National Security Gaurds – NSG
- National Cadet Corps – NCC
- Assam Rifles
- Border Roads Organization – BRO – again this reports to the ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways
The Regiment of Artillery was first introduced by Babar in the first battle of panipat in 1526 (though there are some other evidences of earlier use)
All Indian Military firearm guns are manufactured under an umbrella administration of Ordanance Factory Board with principal Firearm Manufacturing units at Ishapore, Cossipore, Kanpur, Jabalpur and Tiruchhi
Ammunition is manufactured ar Kirkee (now Khadki) and at Bolangir
Combat Vehicles – Main Battle Tanks:
- Arjun MBT Mk1
- T-90 S MBT – Bhisma
- T-72 M1 – Ajeya
- Vijayanta and T-55
Artillery:
- Agni – medium range ballistic missile
- SS-150/Prithvi I and SS-250/Prithvi III short range ballistic Missile
- Brahmos – supersonic cruise missile with a range of 290 km
- Bofors – FH-77B
- Bhim and many more
Aircrafts:
- Aerospatiale Alouette III – by HAL – SA 316 B Chetak
- Aerospatiale Lama – built by HAL – SA 315 B cheetah
- DRDO Nishant – Unmanned air vehicle – UAV
- HAL Dhruv – Utility Helicopter
- Eurocopter Fennec – by EU – utility helicopter
Missiles:
- Agni – medium range ballistic missile
- Prithvi I and III – short range ballistic missile (Prithvi II is with the IAF)
- Brahmos – Supersonic Cruise missile
- Akash – surface to air missile
- Astra – Air to Air missile
Param Vir Chakra is the highest military decoration in the Indian Army – last given in 1999 to Rifleman Sanjay Kumar and Captain Vikram Batra
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