1.
Founde
d Size
: 1 April 1895;123 years ago
: 1,237,117 active personnel
960,000 reserve personnel
174 aircrafts
: Indian Armed Forces
: New Delhi
: “Service Before Self”
: Gold, Red and Black
: 15 January – Army Day
: indianarmy.nic.in
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Colors
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2.
Indian Army is the land based branch
and the largest component of Indian
Armed Forces.
• Indian Army originated from the Armies of
the East India Company, eventually became
the British Indian Army and the armies of the
princely states, and it finally became the
National Army after Independence

3.
The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian
Army, and it is commanded by Chief of Army Staff(COAS), which
is a four-star General
Two officers have been conferred with the rank of field marshal, a five
star rank which is a ceremonial position of great honor.

4.
TheFlagofIndian Army

5.
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6.
The army has also been an active
participant in UN Peace keeping Missions
Since Independence, the Indian Army has been
involved in 4 wars with Pakistan and 1 with China
Other major operations
undertaken by the Army:-
1. Operation Vijay – Kargil War in
1999
2. Operation Meghdoot – to gain
control over Siachen Glacier in 1984
3. Operation Cactus – to stop a
Military Coup in Maldives in 1988

7.
Role
:
To ensure the
national
security and
safeguard
sovereignty
,
territorial
integrity and
unity of India
from external
aggressions
and threats

8.
War fighting
to meet
External
Aggression
TASKS
Internal
Security
Managemen
t to include
Internal
Threats
Force
Projection
Render
Humanitarian
Assistance ,
Disaster Relief
and Aid to Civil
Authority during
calamities and
natural
disasters
Peace
keeping
Operations
or Military
Assistance

9.
2.SERVICES:-
The remaining
components of the army.
Their primary duty is to
provide logistics and
administration for the
army
1.ARMS:-
Covers those
troop which
carry out
actual
operations
Organization
of the Indian
Army

10.
Fightin
g Arms
Armor
Infantry
Mechanized Infantry
Supporting
Arms
Signals
Artillery
Engineers
Army Air Defense
Army Aviation Corps
services Army Service Corps
Army Medical Corps
Army Ordinance Corps
Corps of electronics and mechanical engineers
Remounted Veterinary Corps
The Intelligence Corps

11.
Celebrated on the 15th
of January in the
National Capital Delhi,
in the form of parades
and other military shows
Lt. General KM Cariappa
took over as the first
Commander in Chief of the
independent India in 1948 on
this day
Indian Army Day – Jan 15

12.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INDIAN
ARMY
 India has the biggest volunteer army in the world.
 India controls the highest battlefield in the world , The
Siachen Glacier , at 5000 meters above Mean Sea
Level(MSL).
 Indian soldiers are considered among the very best in high
altitude and mountain warfare.
 The Indian Army’s High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) is
one of the most elite military training centers in the world
and is frequented by Special Ops teams from the US , UK
and Russia.

13.
Operation
Rahat(2013) was
one of the biggest
civilian rescue
operations ever
carried out in the
world
The Indian Army
built the highest
altitude bridge in
the world, The
Bailey Bridge
The Indian Army
has a horsed
Cavalry Regiment-
one of the last
three remaining of
such regiments in
the world

14.
Indian Army is the third biggest military contingent in the world next
to USA and China.
AGNI is one of the best missile series of the world.
AGNI and Prithvi both are nuclear capable ballistic missiles and are
among the most accurate in the world in their respective categories.
The missile BrahMos-2 is the fastest hypersonic missile in the world.
AGNI-VI will give India the power to strike almost every part of the
world.

15.
RECENTS

16.
In the worst ever
terror attack in
Jammu and Kashmir,
a suicide bomber
rammed his
explosive laden
vehicle into a CRPF
convoy on the
Srinagar-Jammu
highway
The blast was
followed by gun
shots by terrorists at
around 3:15 PM on
14 Feb 2019
Pakistan based
terrorist group
Jaish-e-Mohammed
took responsibility
for the attack
PULWAMA TERROR ATTACK

17.
SUKMA ATTACK -
2018
On 13 march 2018, 9 CRPF personnel were killed and 6 others
were injured when Maoists blew up a mine-protected vehicle
with an IED in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh
The attack came almost 11 days after Indian security
personnel killed 10 alleged Naxalites in the forests of
Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on March 2

18.
SUNJUWAN ATTACK-
2018
• On 10 Feb2018, atpredawn,Jaish-e-
MohammedFidayeenattackedanIndianArmy
Campin Sunjuwan,JammuandKashmir
• 11 soldiers,4 attackersand1 civilian werekilled
and20
• Thisattackcoincidedwith thedeathanniversary
ofAfzalGuru,aconvictin the2001 Indian
ParliamentAttack

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Reference:-
https://en.m.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-Army
https://gomilitary.in/indian-army
Indianarmy.nic.in
https://www.gettyimages.in/photos/indian-military
https://www.shutterstock.com
https://www.mensxp.com