Indian Defence and Strategic Weapons

A women's regiment called the Rani Jhansi Regiment and was led by Dr. Laxmi Swaminathan. Recruitment and training camps were opened in large numbers to cope with the rush of volunteers offering themselves for the INA.

Indian Army conducted surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control. DGMO Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh said the motive of the operation was to hit out at terrorists planning to infiltrate into  the Indian territory.

The Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) is located at Avadi in Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. HVF was set up in 1965 by the Ordnance Factories Board, Government of India to manufacture heavy battlefield equipment, including Vijayanta and T-72 tanks. Currently, HVF manufactures India's main battle tank Arjun and the T-90s. The Engine Factory of HVF functions separately from HVF.

Indian Peace Keeping Force was the Indian military contingent performing a peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990. It was formed under the mandate of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan Accord that aimed to end the Sri Lankan Civil War between militant Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lankan military.

The Field Marshal rank is the highest rank in the Indian Army. It is a ceremonial or wartime rank and Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and Field Marshal KM Cariappa have been the only two officers to be elevated to the rank of Field Marshal.

INS Arihant is the lead ship of India's Arihant class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.  The 6,000-tonne vessel was built under the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) project at the Ship Building Centre in the port city of Visakhapatnam. 

INS Vikramaditya is a modified kiev-class aircraft carrier which entered into service with the Indian Navy in 2013. She has been renamed in honor of Vikramaditya, a legendary emperor of Ujjain.

Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet and later with the Russian Navies (as Admiral Gorshkov) before being decommissioned in 1996 as she was too expensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget. The carrier was purchased by India on 20 January 2004 after years of negotiations at a final price of $2.35 billion. The ship successfully completed her sea trials in July 2013 and aviation trials in September 2013.

The home base of the aircraft carries Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikramaditya is Karwar, Karnataka. Its home port is INS Kadamba, Karwar, Karnataka. INS Vikramaditya joined Indian Navy in Nov 2013. It is the largest and newest ship of the Indian Navy.

On 1 April 1933, the first unit of the Indian Air Force was formed at Drigh Road, Karachi with a compliment of four Westland Wapiti aircraft. The single flight expanded into two, then three flights to become a full fledged squadron. Over the course of the decade, several Wapitis passed through its hands. The advent of the Second World War saw the setting up of training facilities for Indian pilots, and the raising of several flights - for Coastal Defence and for Anti-Aircraft Co-operation. By the time the last of the Westland Wapitis stopped flying in 1943,  67 Wapitis had passed through the hands of the IAF and training units.

Major Somnath Sharma, PVC,  an Indian Army officer, was the first recipient of theParam Vir Chakra (PVC), India's highest military decoration. He was awarded it posthumously for his bravery in the Kashmir operations of November 1947. He died while evicting Pakistani infiltrators and raiders from Srinagar Airport  during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947 in Kashmir. He served in the 4th Kumaon Regiment. 

Colonel in the Indian Army is equivalent to captain in the Indian Navy and group captain in the Indian Air Force. Like other armies, this rank is higher than Lieutenant Colonel and lower than a Brigadier.

The Ilyushin IL-78 air-to-air refueling tanker aircraft is a four-engine tanker principally used for in-flight refueling. It was designed and developed on the basis of a similar predecessor, the IL-76, and has the Nato reporting name Midas. The maiden flight of IL-78 took place on 26 June 1983 and the aircraft entered into service in 1984. About 53 aircrafts are currently operational worldwide.

National Security Group provides security to very important persons. It assists in suppressing terrorism and provides internal security. The Bomb diffusion group is complementary to it.

Lt Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy became the first Indian to complete a solo, unassisted, non-stop circumnavigation of the world in 2013. He used INSV Mhadei to complete his circumnavigation of the World.