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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 of foreign design and is license produced in India but efforts are on
to progressively design and manufacture equipment indigenously. The 41 Indian Ordnance
Factories under control of Ordnance Factories Board manufacture most of the Army
equipment like small arms, ammunition, combat vehicles, artillery, tanks etc.

Infantry weapons

Small arms
 Name Weapon Type Caliber Origin Notes

Semi- Status : Inducted .

Pistol Auto 9×19mm  Canada
automatic Standard issue side-arm
9mm 1A Parabellum  India
pistol of the Indian Army.

Semi- Status : Inducted .

9×19mm
Glock 17 automatic  Austria Standard issue Special
Parabellum
pistol Forces pistol.

Status : Inducted/will be
SAF Sub-  India Replaced . Silenced
9×19mm
Carbine machine  United version of SAF Carbine
Parabellum
2A1 gun Kingdom 1A. To be replaced by
the MSMC.

Status : Inducted . For

Sub-
9×19mm use by Special Forces.
Micro-Uzi machine  Israel
Parabellum Micro-Uzi variant
gun
used.[1]

Status : Inducted .
Standard submachine
gun used by Indian Army
Heckler & Submachine 9×19mm
Special Forces like
Koch MP5 gun Parabellum  Germany
MARCOS, Force-1, SPG
and NSG

Status : Inducted .
IMI Tavor 5.56×45mm
Assault rifle  Israel Standard issue Special
TAR-21 NATO
Forces assault rifle.[2][3]

M4A1 Standard issue Special

Assault rifle 5.56×45mm  USA
Carbine Forces assault rifle

T91 assault 5.56×45mm Standard issue Special

Assault rifle  Taiwan
rifle NATO Forces assault rifle

Status : Inducted .
Heckler & 7.62×51mm
Sniper rifle Standard Semi-
Koch PSG1 NATO  Germany
automatic Sniper rifle

Bull Pup 5.7×28mm Status : Inducted . Used

FN P90 Carbine NATO  Belgium by India's SPG

Bull Pup 5.56×45mm Status : Inducted . Used

FN F2000  Belgium
Assault rifle NATO by India's SPG

Status : Inducted .
Mauser 7.62×51mm
Sniper rifle Standard issue bolt-
SP66 NATO  Germany
action sniper rifle.

Status : Inducted . For

IMI Galil 7.62×51mm
Sniper Rifle  Israel use by Indian Army
7.62 Sniper NATO
Special Forces snipers.

14.5×114mm,
20×82mm
Anti-
Denel NTW- and  South Bought in small
material
20 20×110mm Africa numbers.
rifle
Hispano-
Suiza]]

Status : Inducted . For

Light
5.56×45mm use by Special Forces.
IMI Negev machine  Israel
NATO Specially Marcos and
gun
Para(SF).

Status : Inducted .

MG 2A1 Indian-made MAG 58.

General
Also in service as the
purpose 7.62×51mm  Belgium
MG 5A MG 5A (Co-axial) and
machine NATO  India
MG 6A (Commander's
MG 6A gun
gun) with some
armoured vehicles.

Heavy Status : Inducted .

M2  United
machine .50 BMG M2HB variant in
Browning States
gun service.[4]

Status : Inducted . AKM

 Soviet
fixed stock and AKMS
AKM Union
under-folding stock
Assault Assault rifle 7.62×39mm  Poland
variants used. Mainly
Rifle[4]  East
used in CT (Counter
Germany
 Terrorism) Ops.

 Czech Status : Inducted .

vz. 58 Assault rifle 7.62×39mm
Republic Mainly used in CT Ops.

AK-103[5] Assault rifle 7.62×39mm  Russia Mainly used in CT Ops.

Status : Inducted .
Standard issue
Designated Marksman
 Soviet
Dragunov rifle(DMR). To be
Sniper rifle 7.62×54mmR Union
SVD59 replaced by a 7.62mm
 India
NATO DMR under the
Army modernisation
plan.[6]

Status : Inducted . PK
machine guns used as
co-axial weapons in
Russian produced T-90S
Bhishma, T-72M Ajeya
General
and BMP-2S Sarath and
purpose  Soviet
PKM 7.62×54mmR used as general purpose
machine Union
machine gun. Also used
gun
by Special Forces as
section LMG.
Manufactured at
Ordnance Factory
Tiruchirappalli.

Heavy
 Soviet
NSV machine 12.7×108mm Status : Inducted .
Union
gun

Status : Inducted .
Heavy
 Soviet Manufactured at
KPV machine 14.5×114 mm
Union Ordnance Factory
gun
Tiruchirappalli.

Indigenous Gun

Status : Currently
Modern Sub
5.56×30mm Undergoing Trails. It is
Machine
Carbine Carbine MINSAS  India in last phase of trails as
of Feb 2016.

Anti-
12.7×108mm,
Vidhwansak materiel  India Status : Inducted .
20x82mm
rifle

Status : Currently
undergoing
trials(Completed By
2016) . ARDE produced
Multi 5.56×45mm multicaliber rifle to
Caliber NATO replace all AK standard
Assault
Individual 7.62×39mm  India and Insas rifle from the
Rifle
Weapon 6.8×43mm general duty to become
System SPC the next standard issue
assault rifle of the
Indian Army. Currently
undergoing trials by the
Army.[7]

Status : Under
Development/Testing(In
Assault 5.56×45mm Service By 2016-
Excalibur  India
Rifle NATO 18).Some sources say
that it will replace
INSAS Rifle .

Status : Under
Development/Testing .
Kalantak Assault 5.56×45mm It is a version of INSAS
 India
micro Rifle NATO Rifle with range : 300m
and rate of fire : 650-
700rpm.

Status : Inducted .
Standard issue assault
rifle of the Indian Army.
Replaced the 1A SLR.
Folding 1B2 and fixed
 butt 1B1 variants used.
Insas Assault Rifle with
5.56×45mm full-auto selector lever
1B1 INSAS Assault rifle  India
NATO along with the burst
lever and black polymer
furniture also procured.
Manufactured at
Ordnance Factory
Tiruchirappalli. Some
sources say that it will
be replaced by INSAS
Excalibur .

Status : Inducted .
Standard issue Squad
Automatic Weapon
(SAW) of the Indian
Army. Light machine
gun derivative of the
Light
5.56×45mm INSAS assault rifle. Both
INSAS LMG machine  India
NATO fixed- and folding-butt
gun
variants used. Newer
INSAS LMG with black
polymer furniture
procured. Manufactured
at Ordnance Factory
Tiruchirappalli.

Status : Under
Development/Testing .
Amogh 5.56×30mm It is a variant of INSAS
Carbine  India
carbine MINSAS Rifle with range : 200m
and rate of fire :
700rpm.[8]

Explosives,Rockets,and Mortars

Name Type Quantity Origin Notes

Grenade Hand Fragmentation grenade which can be
 India hand-thrown or rifle-launched from
36mm Grenade
1A SLR.

Status : Inducted .Standard issue

grenade of the Indian Army. This
Multi Mode 1.8 modular grenade is available in Hand
Hand
Grenade million  India mode offensive, hand mode
grenade
Shivalik ordered[9] defensive and rifle mode. Types can
be interchanged by changing outer
sleeve.[10][11]

Grenade
 Soviet
GP-25 launcher
Union
(40mm)

Multi Status : Inducted .Semiautomatic six

Grenade
Grenade shot 40mm x 46mm low velocity
launcher  India
Launcher grenade launcher. Manufactured at
(40mm)
40mm Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli. *[1]

Automatic
AGS-17 grenade  Soviet
Plamya launcher Union
(30mm)

Automatic
Replacing the AGS-17 and being
grenade
AGS-30  India manufactured at Ordnance Factory
launcher
Tiruchirappalli.
(30mm)

Recoilless  India Carl Gustav Recoilless Rifle produced

RCL Mk II
rifle (84mm)  Sweden by OFB.

Lighter, updated version of the RCL

Recoilless  India
RCL Mk III Mk II.
rifle (84mm)  Sweden

106mm M- Recoilless  United

3000+
40A1 rifle States

B-300 Rocket For use by Special Forces. Specially

 Israel
Shipon Launcher Marcos and Para(SF).

RPO-A Rocket
Shmel Launcher  Russia

OFB E1
Mortar  India
51mm

OFB E1  India
81mm
Mortar 5000+  United
L16 81mm Kingdom
mortar  Canada

OFB E1
Mortar  India
120mm

AGS-17

RCL MK III
 L16 81mm mortar

Shipon

Vehicles

Utility and miscellaneous

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Name Type Quantity Origin Notes

Mahindra 550 Light Utility

 India
DXB Vehicle

Heavy Utility
KrAZ-6322  Ukraine
Truck

Medium 4X4 In service from 1996. 2.5 Ton

Swaraj Mazda 200+  India
Truck truck

Mitsubishi Light Utility

 Japan Unknown numbers. Deployed
Pajero Vehicle
at the Indo-Chinese Border[12]
Maruti Gypsy Light Utility 31,000  India Additional 4,100 ordered in
Vehicle September 2014.[13]

Fast attack
Windy 505 700  India In service from 2005.[14]
vehicle

VFJ LPTA 713 Medium 4X4 2.5 Ton truck. Manufactured

 India
TC truck by Vehicle Factory Jabalpur.

Ashok Leyland Medium 4x4

 India 3 Ton truck
Topchi truck

All-terrain
Sisu Nasu  Finland
transport vehicle

VFJ Stallion Mk 5 Ton trucks, in a wide range

III Medium 4x4 of configurations
60,000  India
VFJ Stallion Mk 6x6 Truck manufactured by Vehicle
IV Factory Jabalpur.

Ashok Leyland
Crash Fire Fire Tender  India
Tender

Tata LPTA 1615 Artillery Tractor

 India
TC Truck

Tata Prima
Tractor truck  India
4038S/4938S

Tatra 8x8 Mobile Mobile

Decontamination Decontamination
 India
Vehicle Vehicle

Medium 4x4
Tata LPTA 1621  India 5 Ton truck
truck

License produced Tatra

Heavy 4x4 trucks Force heavy truck. Various
6x6 trucks  India models. Used for carrying
BEML Tatra 8x8 trucks 7000[15]  Czech sensitive equipment like
10x10 trucks Republic Radars as well as vehicle for
12x12 trucks Pinaka and Smerch MBRL
systems.
 Maruti Gypsy

5000 Litres Water Bowser on Stallion

2000 Litres Water Bowser on LPTA

 Kitchen Container on Stallion

Light Recovery Vehicle on Stallion

Field Ambulance on LPTA

 Caravan for Army

LPTA 713, now being replaced by LPTA 715

Stallion Mark I, now being replaced by Stallion Mark IV

 BEML Tatra

Engineering and support

Name Type Quantity Origin Notes

Armoured
Based on a Vijayanta chassis and
vehicle-
Kartik ABL 34  India manufactured by Heavy Vehicles
launched
Factory.
bridge

Armoured
Bridge
vehicle-  Soviet
Laying Tank Based on T-55 Tank
launched Union
MT-55
bridge

Armoured
Developed by CVRDE and
vehicle-
T-72 BLT 12  India manufactured by Heavy Vehicles
launched
Factory.
bridge

Vehicle-
8x8 truck-mounted bridging
Sarvatra launched  India
system[16][17]
bridge

Canal
CEASE bridging 6  India The Canal Embankment Assault
system Equipment

BMP-2 based engineering and

Military reconnaissance vehicle (Armoured
AERV Engineering  India Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle)
Vehicle being manufactured at Ordnance
Factory Medak.

BMP-2 with turret removed and

Armoured bulldozer blade and other engineering
BMP-2 Amphibious 7362  India equipment added and being
Bulldozer manufactured at Ordnance Factory
Medak.

FV180 Armoured
Combat combat  United
39
Engineer engineering Kingdom
Tractor vehicle

Light
VFJ Light
Recovery Manufactured at Vehicle Factory
Recovery  India
Vehicle Jabalpur.
Vehicle
(4x4)

Armoured
Yuktirath
Light
Light Manufactured at Ordnance Factory
Recovery  India
Recovery Medak.
Vehicle
Vehicle
(4x4)

Mounted on Tatra vehicle with

Mat Ground
All Terrain automated laying and recovery has
Surfacing  India
vehicle been developed for providing mobility
CL-70
in sandy and marshy terrain.[18]

Armoured
Armoured Based on BMP-2 for Light Repair being
Vehicle
recovery  India manufactured at Ordnance Factory
Tracked
vehicle Medak.[19]
Light Repair

Armoured
WZT-2 recovery 196  Poland
vehicle

Armoured 204 on order.[20] Assembled locally

WZT-3M recovery 352  Poland from kits and components produced in
vehicle India.

Armoured  Slovakia
Armoured recovery vehicle replacing
VT-72B ARV recovery 200+  Poland
the Vijayanta ARV
vehicle  India

WZT-3

Armoured recovery vehicles based on T-72-chassis.

Mine protected, Mine clearing and Mine laying

Name Vehicle Type Quantity Origin Notes

Armoured
 South
Casspir[21] personnel 255 Status : Inducted .
Africa
carrier

Status : Inducted .Based on

Armoured
Tarmour Indian T-55 Tank.[22] *potential
personnel 900*  India
AFV quantity based on existing T-
carrier
55 stock.

Mine Status : Inducted

Hydrema clearing 24  Denmark .Manufactured locally by OFB
Vehicle  India India

T-72 FWMP Mine plow  India Status : Inducted .

Status : Inducted .OFB India.

Mine 1400 to be produced.
Aditya protected 1300+  India 20/month manufactured at
Vehicle Ordnance Factory Medak AND
Vehicle Factory Jabalpur.

Status : Inducted .The Army

DRDO Bomb
has placed orders for 200
Daksh disposal 190+  India
Dakshs.[23] Newer version is
robot
also been Inducted.[24]

Combat

Name Image Origin Quantity Notes

Tanks

Mk1 Status : Inducted .

 Mk2 Status : Inducting
.With a total of 248 to be
built by Heavy Vehicles
[25]
124 MK1 & 118 Factory. 118 Arjun MK-
Arjun MBT  India
MK2 Ordered II(60Mt/1400 hp)ordered
after clearing Army trials
in February 2015. Arjun
MBT Mk. II to be fielded
by 2016.[26][27]

Status : Inducted .Initially

contract for 310 "T-90S"
signed in 2001. A
contract, worth $800
million, was signed on 26
October 2006, for another
330 T-90M MBTs that
were to be built with
locally sourced raw
materials. A third
contract, worth $1.23
billion, was signed in
December 2007 for 347
upgraded T-90Ms, the
bulk of which will be
licence-assembled built
by Heavy Vehicles
Factory. The Indian Army
would begin receiving its
T-90S "Bhishma" first T-90M main battle
 Russia tank (MBT) in completely
1250
T-  India knocked-down condition
90M(50mt/840hp) from Russia's Nizhny
Tagil-based
Uralvagonzavod JSC by
the end of 2009.[28][29] In
all, India plans to have
 310 T-90S and 1,330 T-
90M tanks in service by
2020 (total of 1,657 tanks
with upgradation of night
visions by 2020).[30]
Manufactured locally in
India. Rs10,000-crore
purchase of 354 new T-
90MS tanks for six tank
regiments for the China
border has been
approved.[31][32] This
takes total no. of T-90
tanks to 2011.

Status : Inducted .968

T72M1 have been
upgraded by Heavy
Vehicles Factory, while
requests for proposal for
upgrading approximately
T-72
 Soviet 1,000 other T-72's have
Ajeya(41Mt/780hp)
Union been sent to various
~2414[33][34]
 Poland firms in Israel, Russia,
Combat Improved
 India Poland and
Ajeya
France.[citation needed].
Ajeya-M2 Standard
equivalent to the Polish
PT-91 Twardy.
Manufactured locally in
India.

Infantry fighting vehicles

Status : Inducted
.Additional Being
modernised 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
 Soviet missiles. It also has an
[35]
BMP-2 "Sarath" Union 1,800+
integrated TI sight, an
 India LRF, and has an AGL
mounted on the turret
which is also stabilised in
the horizontal plane. 100
gets added each year. To
enhance the rate to 125 a
year.[36] Currently more
than 900 are in active
service.[36] Manufactured
locally in India by
Ordnance Factory Medak.
All BMP-2/2K vehicles are
to be upgraded to BMP-
2M standard.[37]

Abhay IFV  India Status: Unknown.

Armoured Personnel Carriers

 Soviet Status : Inducted .Total

BTR-50 100+
Union 200 Inducted.

Status : Under
Development(Ready By
TATA Kestrel  India
2017-18) . Trails to be
held this summer .[38]

Tank destroyers

Status : Inducted .BMP-2

based Nag missile
 carrier. Advanced version
NAMICA  India 13+ 200
on Order after successful
trial in July 2012.
Production started jointly
by Ordnance Factory
Medak and L&T.

 Soviet Used as a Tank

BRDM-2
Union Destroyer.

Reconnaissance vehicles

Status : Inducted .BMP-2

Mortar Carrier based mortar carrier.
CMT 198 + 21  India Developed by CVRDE and
ordered manufactured by
Ordnance Factory Medak.

OT-62 TOPAS Armoured TOPAS-2A converted into

Personnel  Czechoslovakia a Technical support
OT-64 SKOT Carrier  Poland vehicle

Status : Inducted .BMP-2

based Armoured
DRDO Armoured Armoured Ambulance. 275 on Order,
 India
Ambulance Ambulance developed by VRDE and
produced by Ordnance
Factory Medak.

Status : Inducted .BMP-2

NBC CRBN based CRBN developed
Reconnaissance Reconnaissance  India by VRDE and produced by
Vehicle vehicle 16 Ordnance Factory
Medak.Vehicle[39]

Bulletproof vehicle with

Armoured composite armour which
Mahindra Rakshak Vehicle  India offers protection against
7.62mm bullets.[40][41][42]

1RL126 "Small Fred"

Battlefield Battlefield Surveillance
 Soviet
PRP-3 surveillance Union Radar based on BMP-1.
system NATO designation was
BMP M1975
Light Armoured Status : Under Trails as
TATA LAMV Multipurpose  India of 2015(Completed By
Vehicle 2016) .

Artillery

Notes Image Type Quantity Origin Notes

M777 Status : Negotiating/Inducting .Ordered

Howitzer 149  USA
howitzer through FMS.

DRDO
Status : Under Development(Deveoped
155 mm
Howitzer  India By 2019) .155 mm 55 Caliber gun made
artillery
by OFB.
gun

Status : Inducted .155 mm 48 Caliber

gun made by OFB. Final Trials Ended.
Dhanush First 6 Gun Inducted. First batch of
Howitzer 449  India
Howitzer Howitzer to be given to Indian Army in
April/March 2016. Rest To Be Inducted
By 2020.

Status : Inducted/Replacing .155 mm

Haubits gun made by Bofors. 410 acquired from
Howitzer 200[43]
FH77/B  Sweden 1986–1991.All Being Replaced By
Dhanush Howitzer.

 Soviet Status : Inducted. M-46 130 mm

M-46 Howitzer 900 Union howitzer guns upgraded to 155 mm
standard by Soltam.[44][45]
 Israel

Status : Inducted/Replacing .Being

D-30 Howitzer 550  Soviet
replaced by the M-46.
Union
180 mm Heavy [46]
100
gun S-23 Gun  Soviet
Union
Indian
Being upgraded with digital FCS and
Field
Field gun 1700  India INS, to extend the range up to 30 km
Gun MK
with bleed base;
1/2/3

Light
Status : Inducted . 105mm gun. ongoing
Field Field gun 700+  India
upgrade.
Gun

FV433 Self- Status : Inducted/Replacing .105 mm

Abbot propelled ~80  United howitzer. Being replaced by the K9
SPG artillery Kingdom VAJRA-T.

Self- Status : Inducted/Replacing .122 mm

2S1
propelled 110 howitzer. Being replaced by the K9
Gvozdika  USSR
artillery VAJRA-T.

Self-
K9 Status : Inducted .155 mm howitzer. It
propelled 100  South
Thunder is a variant K9 Thunder howitzer.
artillery Korea

Smerch Multiple Status : Inducted .300 mm multiple

9K58 rocket 62 rocket launch system.In future it will be
 Russia
MBRL launcher replaced by Pinaka mk3.

Mk1 Status : Inducted(30 km Range).

Mk2 Status : Testing/ Induction

Phase(Completed by 2016)(65 km
Range).
Multiple
Pinaka 80+ Mk3 Status  :Under
rocket  India
MBRL batteries Development(120 km Range) . 214 mm
launcher
multiple rocket launch system.
Replacing the 122 mm BM-21.[47] Being
produced at a heavy rate of 5000
missiles per year.[48]

Multiple Status : Inducted/Replacing

150+ .Modernized rockets with range of
BM-21 rocket batteries  Soviet 40 km was purchased from Russia. To
launcher Union be replaced by Pinaka.

Missile systems

Anti-tank

Name Image Type Quantity Origin Notes

Anti-tank Status : Under

Amogha-1 guided  India Development/Testing. Range
missile 2.5-2.8 km.[49]

Status : Under
Development(Developed By
Nag Man- Anti-tank
2018) .It will be completed in
Portable guided  India
two years. And will replace
Missile missile
majority of Anti-tank missile in
Indian Army.

Status : Inducting .Man

Anti-tank 8,000 portable and Selected over the
Spike
guided (on  Israel U.S. FGM-148 Javelin.,[50]
(missile)
missile order) purchased along with 300
launchers

Anti-tank 40+
Status : Inducted .For Namica
Nag missile guided (400 on  India
Tank Destroyer (IFV).
missile order)

Anti-tank Status : Inducted .Man portable

 France
MILAN guided 30000+ and manufactured locally under
 India
missile license in India.

Anti-tank
Status : Inducted .Man portable
MILAN 2T guided 4100  France
and purchased from France[51]
missile

9M133
Kornet (AT- Anti-tank Status : Inducted .Man portable
guided 3000  Russia and purchased with 250
14 missile Launchers
Spriggan)

Status : Inducted .For BMP-2

9M113
Anti-tank (IFV) and manufactured locally
Konkurs  Russia
guided 15000+ in India. Another 10000
(AT-5  India
missile Konkurs-M ordered in a USD
Spandrel)
250 Million.[52]

9K114 Anti-tank
Shturm (AT- guided 800  Russia Status : Inducted .
6 Spiral) missile

9M120
Anti-tank
Ataka-V  Soviet
guided Status : Inducted .
(AT-9 Spiral- Union
missile
2)

9M119 Svir Anti-tank

Status : Inducted .For use with
(AT-11 guided  Russia
the T-90S.
Sniper) missile

Status : Inducted .Bharat

Dynamics (BDL) signed a
contract with MOD for Invar
Anti-tank
 Russia anti-tank guided missiles on
3UBK-Invar guided 25000
 India 19-Aug-2013.[53][54] It is
missile
reported that 10000 will be
procured from Russia while
BDL will manufacture 15000.[55]

9K121 Vikhr Anti-tank

Status : Inducted .For use with
(AT-16 guided 1500  Russia
Mi-17
Scallion) missile

Status : Inducted .It has been

Air launched
tested on July 12, 2015.It is to
Helina Anti-tank  India
be used, in near future, for HAL
missile
LCH and HAL Rudra.

Ballistic and Cruise

 Name Type Quantity Origin Range

Stealth Cruise  India

Brahmos Status : Inducted .300 km range.
missile  Russia

Status : Under
Development/Testing(Ready By
2016-17) . 3 Test to be held on
2016. First test will be held on
Nirbhay Cruise missile  India
April/May 2016. Nirbhay with
BrahMos seeker is planed to launch
in December.[56] 1,000 –1500 km
range.

Tactical
Prahaar  India Status : Inducted .150 km range.
ballistic missile

Short-range Status : Being Phase Out .150 km

Prithvi-I  India
ballistic missile range.

Short-range Status : Inducted .250 – 350 km

Prithvi-II  India
ballistic missile range.

Short-range Status : Inducted .350 – 600 km

Prithvi-III  India
ballistic missile range.

Medium-range Status : Inducted .700–1900 km

Shaurya  India
ballistic missile range.

Medium-range Status : Inducted .700 – 1250 km

Agni-I  India
ballistic missile range.

Intermediate-
Status : Inducted .2000 – 3500 km
Agni-II range ballistic  India
range.
missile

Intermediate-
Status : Inducted .3500 – 5000 km
Agni-III range ballistic  India
range.
missile

Intermediate-
Status : Inducted .4000 – 6000 km
Agni-IV range ballistic  India
range.
missile

Status : Under
Development/Testing(Ready By
 Intercontinental 2016) .5000 – 8000 km range.
Agni-V  India
ballistic missile (Tested in April 2012, September
2013 and January 2015. All
successful launches [57] )

Status : Under Development(Ready

Intercontinental
Agni-VI  India By 2018) .8,000 – 10,000  km
ballistic missile
range.

Status : Under
Ballistic missile Development/Induction Phase . It
PAD defence  India is under Phase 1 Indian Ballistic
system Missile Defence Programme. 250–
350 km range.

Status : Testing/Induction
Ballistic missile
Phase(Ready By 2016) . It can be
defence
Advanced also used as Anti-aircraft
system
Air Defence  India missile.Last/final test to be held on
(AAD) Surface-to-air April/May 2016. 150 km range. It is
missile under Phase 1 Indian Ballistic
Missile Defence Programme.

Status : Under Development(Ready

Ballistic missile By 2018) . It is under Phase 2
PDV defence  India Indian Ballistic Missile Defence
system Programme. 150 km and above
Range
Shaurya Missile

Brahmos

AAD MIssile

Air Defence
 Name Image Type Quantity Origin Notes

India has currently ordered

FIM-92  United
MANPADS 245 245 Stinger with launchers .
Stinger States [58]

Surface-to-
Status : Testing/Induction
air missile
Phase(Completed By 2016)
Advance Air Ballistic .It can be also used as Anti-
 India
Defence missile aircraft missile.Last/final test
defence to be held on April/May 2016.
system 150 km range.

Status : Inducted .More on

Order. Indigenously
developed surface-to-air
missile to replace SA6. Both
with Army and Air Force. Mk2
Surface-to-
Akash 3000  India 30-35 range .[59] DRDO is also
air missile
working on an advanced
version of Akash (Akash NG)
which will have a maximum
strike capability of up to
50 km.[56]

Status : Induction Phase

Surface-to-
.Undergoing Trials To Be
air missile
Inducted In Heavy Numbers
Ballistic  Israel In Army, Navy And Air
Barak 8
missile  India Force.Akash And Barak 8 Will
defence Replace Most Of The SAM's
system Currently In Service.90–
100 km range.

Surface-to- six Status : Inducted .Procured

S-300VM  Russia
air missile batteries in August 1995.

Status : Inducted/Replacing
Kub (SA-6 Surface-to- 180 (as  Soviet
.To be eventually replaced by
Gainful) air missile of 2012) Union
Akash
S-125 Surface-to-  Soviet Status : Inducted . Being
Neva/Pechora air missile Union Upgraded.
Surface-to-  Soviet
S-200
air missile Union

6x6
amphibious
9K33 Osa
Surface-to- 80  Russia Status : Inducted .
(SA-8 Gecko)
air missile
system

9K35 Strela-
Surface-to- 250 (as  Soviet
10 (SA-13
air missile of 2012) Union
Gopher)

Self-
9K22 propelled 132–
 Russia
Tunguska[60] anti-aircraft 184
weapon

Self-
ZSU-23-4M propelled 75 (as of  Soviet
To be upgraded.
'Shilka' anti-aircraft 2010) Union
gun

Anti-aircraft  Soviet
ZSU-23-2 800 Twin 23 mm AA gun
artillery Union

Indian Army is planning to

Anti-aircraft
L 70 AAA 3000+  Sweden replace the aging Anti
artillery
Aircraft gun systems[61]

SA-18 Grouse MANPADS  Russia

Aircraft

Helicopters
See also: List of active Indian military aircraft

Aircraft Photo Origin Role Version Number[62] Comment

Helicopters (136)
 Attack ALH- Status : Inducted. 40
HAL Rudra  India 20
helicopter WSI more on order.[63]

Status : Inducting.
Kamov Ka- Utility Ka-
200 200 to be built in
226  Russia helicopter 226T
India.[64]

Status : Inducted.
Utility
HAL Dhruv  India 73[62] Total of 151 on
helicopter
order.[62]

Utility Status : Inducted. 18

helicopter more Cheetal on

[62]
HAL Cheetah 23 order replacing the
Cheetah, Utility [62]
older Cheetah.[62] they
 India Cheetal 4
Cheetal & helicopter are expected to be
Lancer Lancer 12 replaced by HAL Light
Counter-
Utility Helicopter in
insurgency near future.

Status : Inducted.
HAL Chetak Utility Being withdrawn from
 India Chetak 4[62]
& Chetan helicopter service and replaced
by HAL Dhruv.

Status : Under Trails

(Completed by 2016).
HAL Light 114 on order.[62] It
Attack
Combat  India LCH has completed all
helicopter
Helicopter initial test. Trails of
missile firing to be
held in mid 2016.[65]

Utility Status : Under

HAL Light
helicopter / Development. Trails
Utility  India LUH
Observation to be held on mid
Helicopter
Helicopter 2016.[66]

UAVs

Aircraft Photo Origin Role Version Number Comment

 Unmanned
IAI
aerial 50+
Heron  Israel
vehicle

Status : Inducted
New variant calle
'Panchi' to be
Unmanned inducted as
DRDO
aerial 15+ replacement of
Nishant  India
vehicle Nishant. Panchi
'Advance stage o
development' as
Feb 2016.

Searcher
Unmanned
IAI II
aerial 120+
Searcher  Israel Searcher
vehicle
I

Unmanned
IAI combat
40
Harpy  Israel aerial
vehicle

Status : Under
Development(Re
Unmanned By 2016).
DRDO
combat run to be held on
Rustom
 India aerial first week of Mar
2
vehicle 2016.First flight
be held on
April/May 2016.

Radar

Name Image Type Quantity Origin Notes

Passive
electronically Status :
Rajendra scanned  India Inducted .
array radar

Passive
electronically Status :
INDRA  India
scanned Inducted .
array radar

BEL
Artillery
Weapon Status :
Locating  India
Locating Inducted .
Radar
Radar

Status :
Rohini 3D radar  India
Inducted .

Electronic Status :
Samyukta  India
Warfare Inducted .

Future procurements

Vehicles
BMP-2 based AKASH SAM carrier production started at Ordnance Factory Medak.

BMP-2 based 105mm Light tank to be manufactured at Ordnance Factory Medak.

BMP-2 based NBC protected recon vehicle to be manufactured at Ordnance Factory

Medak.

Light Specialist Vehicle – LSV with mounting provision for MMG to be purchased by
Infantry division.

Indian Army has shown interest in TATA LAMV(Light Armoured Multipurpose Vehicle)
with mounting provision of MMG, BFSR, HHTI to be purchased by Mechanized Forces. It is
slated to be future ready for Battlefield Management System (BMS).

Future Infantry Combat Vehicle - 2600 FICV to be procured to replace old BMP-2s.
Initially, GoI asked different private and public sector companies to delevelop FICV.But,it
seems that the plan to develop new vehicle is put on hold due to budgetary cuts.Instead,
upgradation of old BMP-2s with new powerful engines,transmission and new Kliver turret
with 30mm gun and four Kornet-M ATGM launchers in being tried.
 Armoured Personnel Carrier - 100 APC to be procured for United Nations peace keeping
missions.

1586 vehicles to be procured to mount ATGMs on these.

Indian Army expects it would have to produce around 2000 TATA Kestrel Wheeled
Amphibious Armored Personnel Carriers to replace its entire fleet of BMPs.

Artillery and missile systems

Under the Field Artillery Rationalization Plan, Indian Army plans to procure 3000 to 4000
155 mm towed, wheeled and tracked artillery systems.[citation needed] The requirement for
artillery guns to be met with indigenous development and production.[68] Production of
crucial bi-modular charge system will be started soon at Nalanda ordnance factory.
HEMRL, a DRDO lab has developed the technology indigenously.[69]

State-run Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) will deliver two types of indigenously
developed 155mm howitzers to the Indian Army based on the FH77B howitzer purchased
way back in 1986. One version will be 155/39 calibre while the other will be 155/45 calibre.
Trials are to be completed by June 2013
[70]
Government is also evaluating 155mm/52 self-propelled howitzers wherein three
Indian vendors, including two private sector companies, have been selected for trials of
their equipment.

Prahaar- the solid-fueled missile is slated to replace the liquid fueled Prithvi-1. Liquid-
fueled missiles have lengthy preparation times giving adequate warning to the enemy,
while solid-fueled ones can be ready in minutes.[71]

Agni-V – Intercontinental version of the Agni missile system. The missile was test fired
for the first time on 19 April 2012 and was inducted in 2014.

Bharat Dynamics Limited has tested Second Generation Amogha anti-tank missiles with
a range of 2.8 km(Tested).This anti-tank missile will be handed to the Indian Army after
some trials.

DRDO will start working on Man portable Nag anti tank missile.

Infantry equipment
Modern Sub Machine Carbine - to replace the Indian Sterling submachine gun.[72]

Indian Army has requirement for 300,000 modular body armour and ballistic helmets
primarily for their Infantry regiments. RFI's have been issued.
 1000 Anti materiel rifles are to acquired for which global RFI's have been issued by the
MOD.

Multi Caliber Individual Weapon System - A multi caliber assault rifle developed by ARDE
for Indian Armed Forces. It can be fitted with either 5.56mm or 7.62mm or 6.8mm gun
barrel. It is developed to replace INSAS rifles.It will be handed over to army after extensive
user trials.

Sniper Rifles - 3500 new sniper rifles to be procured to replace old Dragunov SVDs. The
new sniper rifles should have 1000m range and should be fitted with bipods and fire the
7.62mm NATO bullets.

Aviation
Light Utility Helicopter: The Indian army has projected a requirement for up to 197 light
helicopters to replace its ageing fleet of Chetaks and Cheetahs. The Indian Army chose
Eurocopter AS 550 under a US$550 million contract in summer of 2007. Under this
contract 60 helicopters were to be supplied from Eurocopter in fly-away condition and the
rest were to be assembled by HAL in India. This order was later scrapped due to
allegations of unfair field trials from one of the competing company, Bell
Helicopters.[73][74] A fresh tender process was initiated later in which Eurocopter Fennec
and Kamov Ka-226 were shortlisted for user trials.

Trials were completed and Kamov Ka-226 was declared winner and about 200 helicopters
are to be made in India under the "Make in India" initiative, Indian Army have planned to
replace obsolete Chetaks and Cheetahs with it, until the arrival of HAL LUH, as the later
would be ready for its first flight only by 2017.

Light Combat Helicopter: The HAL Light Combat Helicopter is a derivative of the HAL
Dhruv, which was inducted into the Indian armed forces. Using a successful and proven
helicopter as the base platform is expected to conserve the project costs for the LCH,
which is pegged at ₹3.76 billion (US$55.9 million). The Dhruv's weaponised version, HAL
Rudra is also being inducted in the Indian Army. The LCH was expected to be ready for the
Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) by December 2010 with the Final Operational Clearance
(FOC) in 2011. However, the revised timeframes hold that the 5.5-tonne LCH should be
ready for induction into IAF by 2012–2013.[75] The first prototype of LCH completed its
first ground run on 4 February 2010.[76] HAL has a firm order to deliver 65 LCH to the IAF
and 114 to the Army.[77]

Gallery
Indian Army artillery gun

Indian Army Ambulance

BEL Battlefield Surveillance Radar-Short Range (BFSR-SR)

T-90 tanks during firing in Thar Desert.

A soldier tests a Beretta 92.

Indian Army T-72 with ERA

Indian Army Armoured Corps during a training exercise

Vijayanta Mk 1 MBT
 T-72's belong to the Indian Army with UN markings.

See also

Currently active military equipment by country

Ordnance Factories Board

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