Organisation of INDIAN ARMY

The Army is organised in two parts - Arms and Services as under:

ARMS: Arms Covers those troops which carry out actual operations.

SERVICES: The remaining components of the army are the services. Their primary duty is to provide logistics and administration for the Army.

FIGHTING ARMS:
1. Armor
2. Infantry
3. Mechanized Infantry

SUPPORTING ARMS:
1. Artillery
2. Engineers
3. Army Air Defence
4. Army Aviation Corps
5. Signals

SERVICES:
1. Army service corps ration, POL, transport and clerks
2. Army Medical Corps
3. Army Ordnance Corps - Armament, Ammunition, Vehicles, Clothing , and all equipment
4. Corps of electronics and mechanical engineers - Repair and Recovery
5. Army Education Corps
6. Remounted Veterinary Corps
7. The Intelligence Corps

TANKS AND BMPs:
The Army has about 3400 battle tanks out of which 1200 are indigenously manufactured Vijayanta Tank. Additionally Army has T-55, T-22, T-90 and P-76 tanks. The Arjun main battle tank has been developed by DRDO. Amphibious T90 tank is also known as Bhishma. The mechanized infantry has about 1600 BMP1 and BMP 2.

Artillery has the following equipment:

1. Agni - ICBM, Prithvi - I, Prithvi - III short range ballistic missiles
2. Pinaka - 214 mm multiple rocket launch system
3. Alihot 105 mm gun
4. Bofors
5. Sultan 130 mm field gun
6. Shilka self propelled air defence fun
7. SAM

ARMY AVIATION CORPS has the following:

Dornier Light Transport Air Craft
HELICOPTERS
HAL Dhruv, Cheetah, and Chetak - All are Multirole Helicopters

SMALL ARMS IN THE ARMY:

1. 9 MM PISTOL
2. Heckler
3. Insas 5.56 mm assault rifle
4. Insas 5.56 mm LMG
5. Mauser SP 66
6. 30 mm automic grenade launcher
7. 40 RCL 106 MM
8. IGLA Missile


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