INDIAN DEFENCE SYSTEM (INDIAN ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE)
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is the supreme commander of the Indian Defence System. The whole administrative
control of the Armed forces lies in the Ministry
of Defence. Indian Defence System has been divided into three services –
Army, Navy and Air force. We will discuss one by one all these services: Indian Army, Navy and Air force.
INDIAN
ARMY (INDIA DEFENCE):
The Indian Army is organised into
seven commands:
S.No.
|
Command
|
Headquarter
|
1
|
Western command
|
Chandigarh
|
2
|
Eastern command
|
Kolkata
|
3
|
Northern command
|
Udhampur
|
4
|
Southern command
|
Pune
|
5
|
Central command
|
Lucknow
|
6
|
Army Training Command
|
Shimla
|
7
|
South Western Command
|
Jaipur
|
Each command is under a General
Officer Commanding-in-chief of the rank of Lieutenant General. The commands are
divided into Areas and Sub-Areas. An area is commanded by a General Officer
Commanding of the rank of a Major General and a sub-area by a Brigadier.
INDIAN
ARMY TRAINING NSTITUTIES:
1
|
National
Defence Academy
|
Khadakvasla
|
2
|
National Defence college
|
New delhi
|
3
|
Indian Military Academy
|
Dehradun
|
4
|
Defence Services Staff College
|
Wellington (TN)
|
5
|
Armed Forces Medical College
|
Pune
|
6
|
Infantry School
|
Mhow
|
7
|
Rashtriya Indian Military
College
|
Dehradun
|
8
|
Artillery Training
|
Deolali
|
9
|
Army Ordance Corps School
|
Jabalpur
|
10
|
Army Cadet College
|
Dehradun
|
11
|
College of Defence Management
|
Secunderabad
|
12
|
College of Military Engineering
|
Kirkee, pune
|
13
|
Armoured Corps Centre and
School
|
Ahmednagar
|
14
|
College of Combat
|
Mhow
|
15
|
Officers training Academy
|
Chennai
|
INDIAN
AIR FORCE
Indian
Air Force is organised into seven commands, these are
S.No.
|
Command
|
Headquarter
|
1
|
Western command
|
New Delhi
|
2
|
Central command
|
Allahabad
|
3
|
Eastern command
|
Shillong
|
4
|
South western command
|
Jodhpur
|
5
|
Training command
|
Bangaluru
|
6
|
Maintenance command
|
Nagpur
|
7
|
Southern command
|
Thiruvananthapuram
|
INDIAN
NAVY (INDIAN DEFENCE SERVICE):
Indian
Navy is organised into following commands, these are
S.No.
|
Command
|
Headquarter
|
1
|
Eastern command
|
Vishakhapatnam
|
2
|
Southern command
|
Kochi
|
3
|
Western command
|
Mumbai
|
·
Each command is headed by Vice Admiral.
·
The Navy is headed by the ‘’Chief of the Naval Staff” of the rank
of Admiral.
·
The first Aircraft Carrier of Indian Navy was INS Vikrant. India’s
largest Aircraft carrier is INS Viraat . After retirement of Vikrant, Viraat is
the main guard of Indian coastline. It was commissioned in 1987 and will
continue is service till 2010.
·
INS chakra was India’s first nuclear submarine.
·
INS Vibhuti was India’s first indigenously built missile boat
launched at Mazgaon docks in Mumbai.
·
INS Savitri was India’s
first warship fabricated at Hindustan Shipyard Limited in 1990.
·
INS Shakti was India’s first indigenously built submarine.
·
INS Delhi is India’s largest and most sophisticated indigenously
built worship. It was launched in 1991 at Mazgaon docks and commissioned in
1997.
·
INS Kadamba is India’s largest naval base situated at Darwar,
Karwar, Karnataka. It was commissioned in 2005 under the project ‘Seabird’.
·
INS Talwar is firt of the three high-tech stealth frigates built
by Russia for Indian navy.
·
Nilgiri is India’s first indigenous stealth frigate. It was built
at Mazgaon dockyard,
·
INS Prahar is world’s fastest missile ship, commissioned in 1997.
·
INS Mysore is Indian navy’s most modernised indigenously built
warship, commissioned in 1999.
·
INS Beas, the advanced guided missile frigate, was commissioned in
2005.
·
INS Arihant, the indigenous nuclear-powered submarine , was
symbolically launched in 2009.
·
INS Chakra-II is the Akula class submarine, acquired from Russia
in 2012.
·
INS Tarkash: the second of the Russian-built Talwar class stealth
frigates – INS Tarkash – equipped with supersonic curise missiles was commissioned
into the Navy at the Yantar Shipyard in Russia on Nov 9, 2012.
·
INS Teg Frigate: The Indian navy inducted newly-built INS Teg in
its fleet at the Yantar shipyard in Russia’s Kaliningrad on April 27.
·
INS Sahyadri: Indigenously built stealth warship ‘INS Sahyadri’
was commissioned on July 21, 2012 in the Indian Navy, adding firepower to its
anti-submarine warfare capabilities. The frigate is the last in series of
stealth warships after ‘INS Shivalik’ and ‘INS Satpura’, the first two in the
class- INS Shivalik and INS Satpura – were commissioned in Apri 2010 and August
2011, respectively.
·
INS Dweeprakshak: As part of its efforts to augment the security
of the strategically significant Lakshadweep archipelago, the navy commissioned
a full-scale naval base, INS dweeprakash, at Kaavaratti on April 30, 2012.
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