Tell about Indian Army?

Indian Navy has a specially trained commando force known as MACROS. MACROS is one of the very few units in this world capable of jumping into water and jumping out of aircrafts with complete combat load. They also use the most advanced weapons in entire Indian Armed Forces.

The only other Indian force to use the most advanced weapons is the Para Commandoes.

Indian military holds the credit of accepting the largest ever military surrender in world. In 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to Indian Army.

India has indigenously developed INS Arihant – a nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine. INS Arihant is capable of shooting nuclear warhead fitted missiles from a depth of 0.5 km under water. With INS Arihant, India became the 6th country in the world with the ability to design, build and operate its very own nuclear submarine.

The only navy to operate more than one (actually two) completely functional aircraft carriers in waters surrounding the Indian Subcontinent is India.

The only country in entire world to be operating submarine launched supersonic cruise missiles is India.

It was the first conventional war in which Indian Army was directly engaged.

Indian Air Force (IAF) is one of the strongest air forces in world with 170,000 active personnel, 1,130 active and in-service combat aircrafts, 158 trainer aircrafts, 133 transport aircrafts,156 transport helicopters, 33 attack helicopters, 200 UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and 155 utility helicopters.

The opponent was Pakistan. It was during this war that India liberated Bangladesh as a free country in 13 days and installed a democratic government, which is functional till date.

Old communication system of Indian Air Force was replaced by Afnet in 2010. Afnet was developed by IAF in collaboration with BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) and HCL Infosystems Ltd. at a cost of 1,077 crores. It is a state-of-the-art reliable and fully secured network and gigabyte digital information grid.

India’s most famous missile series named AGNI had its fair share of ridicule after the first two tests of AGNI-I failed. Countries like Pakistan, USA and UK were the top countries to make fun of AGNI.

Just like MACROS of Navy has a commando force of 2000 commandos trained and operated by IAF. Known as COIN Operations and Emergency Unit (COIN stands for Counter Insurgency), the commandos are responsible for defending the airbases from terrorists attacks. COIN also conduct search and rescue operations.

Today AGNI is not only a feared missile because of its accurate targeting but also AGNI-V has actually put India in the elite club consisting of Russia, China, USA and France. AGNI-V is a nuclear-capable Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile and has been designed and developed completely in India.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is known for manufacturing HF-24 Marut which is India’s first indigenous fighter bomber. HAL is the largest aerospace company in entire Asia.

With AGNI-VI (another Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile), which is currently under development, Indian Armed Forces will have the power of hitting almost anywhere in the world (except for small parts of North America and South America) sitting right in India. AGNI-VI will have a range of 10,000 kilometers.

IAF is responsible for only one peace time casualty. One month after Kargil war IAF shot down a patrol plane of Pakistan Navy that killed all 16 people onboard. It was shot down after the aircraft the international border.

Another indigenous nuclear-capable ballistic missile series is the Prithvi series. Capable of hitting within 50m of target coordinates, Prithvi is highly devastating even when fired with smaller payloads. Today AGNI and Prithvi are among world’s most accurate missile systems.

Indian Air Force is the 4th largest air force in world with USA, Russia and China taking the first, second and third positions respectively.

Another indigenous nuclear-capable ballistic missile series is the Prithvi series.

Capable of hitting within 50m of target coordinates, Prithvi is highly devastating even when fired with smaller payloads. Today AGNI and Prithvi are among world’s most accurate missile systems.

It is being said that India is currently developing Surya series of missiles that are based on PSLV (Polar Space Launch Vehicle) model developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). Surya I is said to have a range of 10,000 kilometers and Surya II is said to have a range of 20,000 kilometers.

And then Indian Army has another missile system known as NIRBHAYA. Unique in its design, this low-range sub-sonic cruise missile is all about defying anti-missile systems. Once the missile blasts off, it takes the shape of a plane with well-defined wings and tail fins.

NIRBHAYA can be maneuvered at tree-top level, making it completely undetectable to radars and once it is close to its target, it hovers above it and strikes at will from any possible direction.

Because of its random striking procedure, it is safe against anti-missile systems. NIRBHAYA is even capable of carrying nuclear warhead and it has been developed for Army, Air Force and Navy.

Together with Russia, India is developing the BrahMos-2 missile. BrahMos (Brah for Brahmaputra and Mos for Moscow) is world’s fastest missile capable of traveling at a speed of Mach 7.