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The Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of India. It consists of three professional uniformed services: the Indian Army, Indian Navy, and Indian Air Force.
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS).
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- India’s Navy
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Bureaucracy, major procurement issues, inter-service squabbling over a shrinking defence budget and successive governments repeatedly switching the strategic focus between Pakistan and China have left the military meandering in its focus. As the lion’s share of defence budgets has traditionally gone to the army, the Indian air force has suffered an...
The army is the senior service in India’s military and has, traditionally, been armour-heavy with over 3,500 main battle tanks in its arsenal. By contrast, Pakistan fields 2,400. Most of the tanks in India’s inventory are Russian-built with over 1,000 of the modern T-90s in operation. The attempt to build an indigenous tank – the Arjun – ended in d...
For years, both China and India have been improving their roads and bridges on either side of the Line of Actual Control, the unofficial demarcation line between India and China, in an effort to be able to better re-supply their troops in the event of a conflict. China has the advantage in this, having built high-speed rail links close to the borde...
The Indian navy is in the middle of restructuring itself with a focus on projecting its combat power beyond its coastal waters, centring around the creation of three aircraft carrier groups and the 150 aircraft they would carry. While this sounds impressive, it is unlikely to happen any time soon. The service has seen its share of the defence budge...
China’s main supply route into the South China Sea is through the Andaman Sea and the narrow Malacca Strait. A vulnerable choke-point for China, it has sought to protect itself and diversify its supply routes. This ties into its massive and ongoing infrastructure scheme the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of which Pakistan is a vital member. The Chi...
Jan 26, 2022 · India is rapidly upgrading its defense capabilities with 93 military modernization projects worth $18.4 billion currently in progress, according to a report by The Times of India. Some of the ongoing projects focus on longer-range weapons, multi-purpose drones, night-fighting capabilities, disruptive technologies, and early warning and ...
The Indian Armed Forces comprise of three divisions – Indian Army, Indian Navy, and the Indian Air Force. Check more important links. Indian Army. The Indian subcontinent had witnessed the cohesive concentration of many Empires in the quest for control of military power, and governance of the State.
Sep 24, 2012 · This brief analyzes the threats and challenges that India must address, the measures being adopted to modernize the country’s armed forces, and the strategic underpinnings behind this slow but steady modernization effort.
India’s Defence Transformation. The Indian Armed Forces are at the cusp of undergoing their most significant transformation since India gained independence. These changes, once fully implemented, will affect high-level defence management, the military-command structure and the defence industry.
