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This is a list of some of the modern & historical equipment used by Indian Army. Most of the army equipment is imported, but efforts are being made to manufacture indigenous equipment. All Indian Military Firearms guns are manufactured under the umbrella administration of the Ordnance Factory Board, with principal Firearm manufacturing facilities in Ishapore, Cossipore, Kanpur, Jabalpur and Tiruchirapalli. While ammunition is manufactured at Kirkee (Now Khadki) and possibly at Bolangir.
=Modern Equipment=


Small arms


Handguns



Sub-machine guns and carbines



Assault rifles


  • RFI (Rifle Factory,Ishapore) SLR1A 7.62mmx51 mm NATO Assault Rifle, A modified license-produced FN FAL , This old work horse has now more or less been retired from IA service, most going to the police and paramilitary forces after reconditioning. Some however, remain in use.

  • RFI SLR1C 7.62mmx51 mm, full Automatic variant of the SLR for use in APCs

  • AK-7, clone of the AK-47

  • INSAS 5.56mmx45 mm Assault Rifle

  • TAVOR TAR-21 5.56mmx45 mm, for special forces currently 3070 have been purchased from Israel 10

  • KBK AKMS 7.62mmx39 mm, Polish AKS47-3

  • AK47 M1 7.62mmx39 mm, all black Bulgarian AK. Most of these have been imported for police and paramilitary forces

  • Soviet AKM AKMS 7.62mmx39 mm

  • East German MPi-KM MPi-KMS72 7.62mmx39 mm (Second hand)

  • Romanian MPiKM Series 7.62mmx39 mm, these are Romanian clones of the earstwhile East German rifles. Only external difference is the marking, finish and wooden instead of synthetic fruniture.

  • Czech Vz.58 And Vz.58P 7.62mmx39 mm



Sniping rifles



Machine guns

  • MG 1B 7.62mmx51 mm, Indian made Bren- This is currently being retired. But may remain a while longer because of teething problems with its successor, the INSAS LMG

  • MG 2A1 7.62mmx51 mm, Indian made MAG 58

  • MG 5A 7.62mmx51 mm This is the Indian manufactured Co-axial MAG 58

  • MG 6A 7.62mmx51 mm Another Indian version of the MAG58 specifically designed as a tank commanders gun.

  • INSAS 5.56mmx45 mm LMG

  • FN-Browning M1919 .30Cal , in very limited quantities

  • Browning M2 machine gun .50cal, heavy machine gun in very limited numbers



Projectile launchers

  • AGS-17 Plamya 30 mm automatic grenade launcher

  • M40 RCL 106 mm

  • Carl Gustav 84 mm recoilless rifles

  • NTW-20 20 mm Rifle

  • Vidhwansak Anti-Material Rifle http://ofbindia.gov.in/products/data/weapons/wsc/26.htm



Anti-Tank Guided Missiles



ARMOURED VEHICLES

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Bhishma tank on display.]]
Ajeya during an exercise.]]

Main Battle Tanks

  • Arjun MBT Mk1 - main battle tanks (43). The Army has ordered production of this tank and the first batch of 43 of the ordered 124 tanks has already rolled out of the Avadi factory and are currently being put through trials to check the quality control of the production process. The remaining tanks will follow thereafter. Indian Army had bought 12 of these tanks for testing.

  • T-90 S Bhishma - main battle tanks (410). Over 1000 more T-90S will be manufactured in India by 2010. India may sign a new contract for 350 additional T-90 tanks from Russia. India mulls purchase of 350 T-90 battle tanks from Russia [http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1829213,0008.htm].

  • T-72 M1 Ajeya - main battle tanks (1,925). 268 T72M1 are upgraded by the Heavy vehicles factory (HVF). While requests for proposal for upgrading approximately 1000 other T-72's have been sent to various firms in Israel, Russia, Poland and France.

  • Vijayanta (1,800)

  • T-55 (900) main battle tanks. Vijayanta have been phased out while the T-55 are in the process of being phased out. Some of these tanks will be attached to infantry brigades and battalions, as Tarmour AFV since despite their vintage, the 105 mm L7 gun has substantial firepower. {Link without Title}



Armoured fighting vehicles

  • Ferret armoured cars

  • BRDM-2 amphibious reconnaissance vehicles

  • BMP-1 (700) and BMP-2 (900+)Sarath - mechanised infantry combat vehicles relegated the OT-62/64 to mortar carriers. The BMP-2 are now being modernized with TISAS (thermal imaging stand alone sights), better fire control, and more modern ATGM armament (Konkurs M). BMP-1 has been phased out and the upgraded BMP-2 is BMP-2 M with two thermobaric missiles and two tandem warhead Konkurs missiles. Its also has an integrated TI sight and an LRF. Has an AGL mounted on the turret which is also stablised in the horizontal plane.

  • An indigenous AFV called Abhay (''"Fearless"'') is under development.




NON-COMBAT VEHICLES


Engineering Vehicles

  • Bridge Layer Tank using a T-72 chassis

  • Kartik Armoured Bridgelayer on a Vijayanta chassis

  • Multi-Hop Assault Bridge on T-72 chassis

  • Extended Span Assault Bridge on T-72 chassis

  • Sarvatra - 8x8 truck-mounted bridging system

  • VT-72B Armored Recovery Vehicle

  • WZT-3 Armoured Receovery Vehicle- Replacing Vijayanta ARV

  • Vijayanta (Vickers MBT) Armoured Receovery Vehicle

  • Armoured Amphibious Dozer on BMP-2 chassis

  • Engineer reconnaissance vehicle on BMP-2 chassis



Mine protected vehicles

  • Casspir - mine protected vehicles



Logistic vehicles

  • Stallion 4x4 Truck for GS Role

  • Ashok Leyland Truck Fire Fighting

  • Ashok Leyland 5kl Water Bowser

  • Ashok Leyland Light Recovery Vehicle 4x4

  • Mahindra - light multi-role 4x4

  • Rampar - amphibious 4x4



ARTILLERY



Towed artillery

  • 155 mm Bofors FH-77B

  • 155 mm M-46 Field Howitzer- Upgraded to 155 mm by soltam

  • 130 mm M-46

  • 122 mm D-30- To be phased out

  • 105 mm Light Field Gun- To be phased out

  • 105 mm Indian Field Gun- To be phased out



Self propelled artillery

  • Abbot 105 mm and M-46 130 mm Catapult are phased out and Army is planning to proucure new Self Propelled Systems as part of Field Artillery Rationalization Plan.

  • Bhim -Initial reports that the Arjun hull might be used with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer by fitting the South African T6 turret which has the G5 Howitzer fitted, proved to be misfounded. The SPH would be integrated at Bharat Earth Movers Ltd, which would manufacture additional Arjun chassis & hulls for the purpose. At present, the Bhim SPH program is in limbo, since Denel has been temporarily blacklisted by the Indian Ministry of Defence, while corruption charges are being investigated.



Multiple rocket launchers




AIR DEFENCE

Surface To Air Missile Systems




SURFACE TO SURFACE MISSILES







AIRCRAFT


This is a list of aircraft of the Indian Army. For the list of aircraft of the Indian Air Force , see List Of Aircraft Of The Indian Air Force .

The Indian Army operates more than 1200 Helicopter s, plus additional ~750 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle s.

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  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Aérospatiale_Alouette_III" class="copylinks">Aérospatiale Alouette III utility helicopter SA 316B Chetak 635 built by HAL
  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Aérospatiale_Lama" class="copylinks">Aérospatiale Lama utility helicopter SA 315B Cheetah 150 built by HAL
  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/HAL_Dhruv" class="copylinks">HAL Dhruv utility helicopter 78 To acquire 220 more Dhruv in next 5 years
  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Eurocopter_Fennec" class="copylinks">Eurocopter Fennec utility helicopter 197 Recent purchase order for 197 Fennec
  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Israel_Aerospace_Industries" class="copylinks">IAI Searcher II reconnaissance UAV 100+
  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/DRDO_Nishant" class="copylinks">DRDO Nishant reconnaissance UAV 70 Delivery of 12 UAV's in 2007