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Indian Armed Forces during Bharat Shakti military exercise. The headquarters of the Indian Armed Forces is in New Delhi, the capital city of India. The President of India serves as the formal Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces, [65] while actual control lies with the executive headed by the Prime Minister of India.
Upon the establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations.Nevertheless, the armed forces, namely, the British Indian Army (IA), the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) - under the helm of King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief - retained their respective pre-independence ranks and corresponding ...
Will replace second generation MILAN and 9M113 Konkurs ATGMs with the infantry, parachute, and special forces. MILAN 2T: 34,000 India France West Germany: Status: In service. Man portable. Purchased from MBDA and domestically license produced by India's Bharat Dynamics Limited. [206] 9M133 Kornet (AT-14 Spriggan) 3000 India Russia: Status: In ...
India is currently re-organising its mechanised forces to achieve strategic mobility and high-volume firepower for rapid thrusts into enemy territory. India proposes to progressively deploy as many as 248 Arjun main battle tanks (MBT) and to develop and deploy the Arjun MK-1A [204] variant, as well as 1,657 Russian-made T-90S MBTs. The army is ...
To ensure a high degree of synergy between the Armed forces, the Government has set up the Integrated Defence Staff, headed by the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff as the chairman. It was created on 1 October 2001 based on the recommendations of the Group of Ministers which was set up in 2000 (post-Kargil) to review India's defence management ...
العربية; অসমীয়া; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) भोजपुरी
The Indian Armed Forces is the overall unified military of the Republic of India encompassing the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy. The President of India serves as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. With an estimated total active force of 1,325,000 personnel, maintains the world's second largest armed forces.
Department of Military Affairs (DMA) is the department in charge of military matters [a] within the Indian Ministry of Defence.Headed by the Chief of Defence Staff, [1] [2] as its ex-officio secretary, [3] the DMA provides integration between the armed forces of the Union and the Ministry of Defence.