Tuesday, February 11, 2014

EQUIPMENT IN INDIAN ARMY

The Indian army has modern and historical equipment, most of the equipment are foreign design. There are equipment's such as infantry weapons, vehicles, artillery, missile systems, air crafts. These are all the majorly used equipment in Indian army.
In this infantry weapons there is small arms which consists of different weapons such as pistol auto which is a 9 mm parabellum, modern sub machine carbine which is 5.56 mm MINSAS, saf carbine 1A is a 9 mm parabellum ,saf carbine 2A1 is a 9 mm parabellum which are made in India, IBI INSAS is an assault riffle,with 5.56 mm NATO, OFB 1A1 riffles and OFB 1c riffles are 7.62*51 mm NATO,ishapore 2A1 riffle is an assault riffle with 7.62 mm NATO,trichy is an assault riffle ,vedhwansak anti material riffle,INSAS LMG is a machine gun of 5.56 mm NATO,MGIB machine gun of 7.62 mm are present. And also equipment such as Grenade 36 mm, Multi Mode Grenade shivalik, Multi Grenade Launcher 40 mm.



BATTLE TANKS :

File:Arjun MBT bump track test 2.JPG   File:T-90 Bhisma cropped.jpg   File:T-72 Ajeya1.jpg

File:Vijayanta - Main Battle Tank 4150184.JPG    File:Bmp-1-DMSC9112086 JPG.jpg    File:Nag with NAMICA Defexpo-2008.JPG


The main Tanks that are used in Indian Army are:

  • Arjun MBT ----- This is one of the top and powerful tank of India (60Mt/1400hp).
  • T 90S -Bhishma---- This is brought from the Russia (50Mt/840hp).
  • T 72 Ajeya------- The power of the tank is 41Mt/780 hp.
  • BMP2 Sarath---It is modified by TISAS(Thermal imaging stand alone sight).
  • BMP 1
  • NAMICA----This is a nag missile carrier.
  • Armoured Vehicle---Technology demonstrator.

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