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AFCAT 1 2022

ARMY, NAVY, IAF ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE


ARMY, NAVY,RANKS
IAF ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
EQUIVALENT
EQUIVALENT RANKS
COMMANDS
COMMANDS
DEFENCE INSTITUTES
DEFENCE INSTITUTES
WEAPONS & EQUIPMENTS
(FIGHTER JETS, SUBMARINES, TANKS, ETC)
WEAPONS & EQUIPMENTS 2-3 QUESTIONS
MILITARY EXERCISES
(FIGHTER JETS, SUBMARINES, TANKS, ETC)
FOR SURE !!!
MILITARY EXERCISES
IMP MISSILES
IMP MISSILES
By- Shivani Soni
ARMY, NAVY, IAF ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
EQUIVALENT RANKS

COMMANDS

DEFENCE INSTITUTES

WEAPONS & EQUIPMENTS


(FIGHTER JETS, SUBMARINES, TANKS, ETC)

MILITARY EXERCISES

IMP MISSILES
The President of India is the Supreme Commander
of the three services – Army, Navy and Air Force

Headquarters- New Delhi

Chief of the Army staff- a four star General and is


assisted by 8 Lt. Generals who are:
• one vice chief
• two deputy chiefs
• a military secretary
• An adjutant General
• the quartermaster general
• the master general of ordnance and
• the engineer in Chief
Motto : Service Before Self – “Seva Parmao
Dharma“
Role:
•War Fighting to meet External Aggression.

•Internal Security Management to include Internal


Threats.

•Force Projection.

•Peace Keeping Operations or Military Assistance to


friendly foreign countries.

•Render Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Relief


and Aid to Civil Authorities.
Indian Army Day

15th of January
This was the day when Lt. General KM Cariappa took
over as the first Commander in Chief of the
Independent India in the year 1948.
The day is marked as a day to salute the Brave soldiers
who laid down their lives for the protection of the
Country.
Organisation of the Indian Army :
The Army is organized in two parts –
Arms and Services as under –

Arms – Arms Covers those troops


which carry out actual operations.

Services – The remaining


components of the army are the
Services. Their primary duty is to
provide logistics and administration
for the army.
Fighting Arms : Supporting Arms :

•Armor •Artillery
•Infantry •Engineers
•Mechanized •Army air defence
Infantry •Army aviation
corps
•Signals
Services :

•Army Service corps – ration, transport and clerks


•Army Medical Corps
•Army ordnance corps – armament, ammunition,
vehicles, clothing and all equipment
•Corps of electronics and mechanical engineers –
repairs and recovery
•Remounted veterinary corps
•The Intelligence corps
Military Training Institutes Of Indian
Army Defence Academy (NDA)- Pune
National
Indian Military Academy (IMA)- Dehradun
Officers Training Academy- Gaya
Officers Training Academy- Chennai
Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME)-
Secunderabad
Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE)- Mhow
College of Military Engineering- Pune
Infantry School- Mhow
Commando School- Belgaum
Combat Army Aviation Training School (CAATS)- Nashik
High Altitude Warfare School- Gulmarg
School of Artillery- Nashik
Army Air Defence College- Gopalpur
Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJW School)- Vairengte
Military Training Institutes Of Indian Army
Combat Army Aviation Training School (CAATS)- Nashik
High Altitude Warfare School- Gulmarg
School of Artillery- Nashik
Army Air Defence College- Gopalpur
Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJW School)- Vairengte
Army Airborne Training School- Agra
INDIAN AIR FORCE DAY

Indian Air Force Day was


officially established in 1932.

Headquarters: New Delhi

Role Aerial warfare


Formation of Indian Air Force
Commands
Five operational + two functional commands.
headed by an Air Marshal

Wings
commanded by a Group Captain
consists of two or three IAF Squadrons +
Helicopter Units + Forward Base Support
Units

Squadrons
headed by Wing Commander

Flights
commanded by a Squadron Leader
•Flying Branch
• Flying
•Technical Branch
• Engineering
•Ground Branch
• Logistics
• Administration
• Accounts
• Education
• Medical & Dental
• Meteorological
Indian Air Force Flag

The Air Force ensign,


is blue in colour, containing
the National Flag in the first
quadrant and a roundel
consisting of the colours of
the National Flag i.e.
saffron, white and green in
the centre
•Air Force Academy, Dindigul
AIRFORCE •Pilot Training Institute, Allahabad
INSTITUTES •Institute of Aerospace Medicine,
Bangalore
•Air Force Administrative College,
Coimbatore
•Air Force Technical College, Bangalore
•Paratroopers Training School in Agra
•Strategy, air integration and defense
establishment in Gwalior
Role Naval warfare, force projection, sealift, nuclear
deterrence

Headquarters Integrated Defence Headquarters, Ministry of


Defence, New Delhi

Motto(s) शं नो वरुणः (Sanskrit)


Shaṁ No Varunaḥ (ISO)
'May the Lord of Water be auspicious unto us'
white ensign, with a INDIAN
horizontal red stripe
and a vertical red NAVY
stripe intersecting FLAG
at the centre of the
flag (Cross of Saint
George), the
emblem of India
superimposed on
the intersection,
and the national
flag in the upper
canton next to the
staff
Organizational structure of Indian Navy is headed by
the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), who holds the rank
of Admiral

The CNS is assisted by the


Vice Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS), a vice-admiral;
The CNS also heads the Integrated Headquarters (IHQ)
of the Ministry of Defence (Navy), based in New Delhi.

The Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (DCNS), a vice-admiral,


is a Principal Staff Officer, along with the Chief of
Personnel (COP) and the Chief of Materiel (COM), both
of whom are also vice-admirals.

The Director General Medical Services (Navy) is a


Surgeon Vice-Admiral
Udhampur Northern Command
Western Shimla Training Command
Command
Chandimandir
Lucknow Central Command
Jaipur
Western
Kolkata
Southern
Command Eastern Command
Pune
Southern Command

COMMANDS
NEW DELHI Western Command

SHILLONG
Eastern Command
PRAYAGRAJ
GANDHINAGAR Central Command
South Western
Command NAGPUR Maintenance Command
BENGALURU Training Command

COMMANDS
THIRUVANANTPURAM Southern Command
MUMBAI VIZAG
Western Command Eastern Command

KOCHI
Southern Command COMMANDS
R
A
N
K
S
WEAPONS & EQUIPMENTS
T-55
T-72
T-90 (Bhishma)
P-76
Arjun (developed
By DRDO)
Artillery has the following equipment :

•Agni – ICBM,
•Prithvi – I, Prithvi – II, Prithvi – III – short range ballistic
missiles
•Pinaka – 214 mm multiple rocket launch system
•Bofors etc.
Aircrafts and Helicopters –
Dhruv(HAL),
Cheetah,
Chetak ,
DRDO Nishant

Air Defence and Missile systems –


Akash,
Trishul,
Astra
Engineering and Support Vehicles –
Vijyanta,
Sarvatra

Multiple Rocket Launcher –


Pinaka,
BM-21

Utility Vehicles –
Shaktiman Trucks, BEML Tatra

Small Arms : INSAS, SLR


Aeronautical Mechanisms

DEFENCE MANIA
RAFALE (Origin- France)
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France.
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• SCALP, an air-to-ground missile with a range of 300
km
•HAMMER (Highly Agile and Manoeuvrable Munitions
Extended Range) for hardened structures with a range
of 70 km.
•METEOR, an air-to-air missile with a range of 100 km
•Twin gun pod as well as a 30mm cannon which can
fire over 2500 rounds in a minute
3. Speed- 1.8 Mach FIGHTER JETS
1. multirole combat fighter aircraft jointly
developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau FIGHTER JETS
(SDB) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(HAL)
2. armed with a 30 mm Gsh-30-1 cannon
3. The aircraft features 12 hardpoints
4. air-to-surface missiles, including Kh-
29L/T/TYe, Kh-31A/P, Kh-59M and
Nirbhay.
5. fitted with air launched version of
BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles that
can strike targets within the range of 290
km.
6. Vympel-built R-27R, R-73 and R-
77 air-to-air missiles, as well as
rocket pods, KAB-500 and KAB-
1500 laser-guided bombs.
7. tarang radar warning receiver
(RWR) indigenously developed by
the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO).
8. integrates chaff / flare dispensers
and active jammers.
9. SPEED- Mach 1.9

FIGHTER JETS
Engine – General Electric F404-E
Payload – 5,300 Kg
Combat Range – 500 Km
Maximum Speed – Mach 1.8
8 Hardpoints – The aircraft can carry
different types of missiles and bombs in
those 8 Hardpoints.
Radar – Elta ELM/M – 2052 Active
Electronically Scanned Array Radar
(AESA) Radar

FIGHTER JETS
Tejas Trainer: 2- LCA Navy:
seater operational conversion trainer Twin- and single-seat carrier-
for training air force pilots. capable for the Indian Navy.
However, the Navy has declared that
the Tejas is too heavy for it to be
operational from aircraft carriers
(like INS Vikrant, INS Vikramaditya,
etc.)

LCA Tejas AF MK2: LCA Tejas Navy MK2:


This is an improvement over the LCA This is phase 2 of the LCA Navy
Tejas Mk1 with a higher thrust variant.
engine.
FIGHTER JETS
Mirage 2000 1. Speed – 2330 Kmph
single-engine, Multi-Role Fourth 2. Range – 1500 Km
Generation Fighter
3. Service Ceiling – 18,000 ft

4. Crew – 1 (for trainer 2)

5. Engine – SNECMA M53-P2


Turbofan engine with Afterburner

6. Armament –
30 mm DEFA Revolver Canon
MICA and Matra Magic Missiles
PGM, GBU, and Spice 2000 Laser
FIGHTER JETS Guided Bombs
Armament • Precision-guided
•Guns: DEFA cannon with up to 150 rounds/gun munition:
•Hardpoints: 7 DRDO Smart Anti-Airfield
Weapon
•Rockets: 8
• Bombs:
•Missiles: unguided or laser-guided
anti-radar missiles or air-to-air missiles bombs or
•Anti-radiation missiles: 2× nuclear bombs
•DRDO Anti-Radiation Missile(Rudram-1)
•Anti-ship missile:
Harpoon
Sea Eagle (missile)
FIGHTER JETS
TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT Soviet
Ilyushin Il-76
Union
United
Boeing C-17
States

C-130J Super United


Hercules States

Antonov An-32 Ukraine

Hawker
United
Siddeley HS
748 Kingdom

Dornier 228 Germany


HAL Light Combat
India Attack
Helicopter

HELICOPTERS Boeing AH-64


Apache
United States Attack

Mil Mi-24 Russia Attack

HAL Rudra India Armed

CH-47 Chinook United States Heavy transport

Mil Mi-26 Russia Heavy transport

Mil Mi-17 Russia Utility transport

HAL Light Utility


India Utility helicopter
Helicopter

HAL Dhruv India Utility

HAL Chetak France / India Light utility

HAL Cheetah France / India Light utility


MILITARY EXERCISES
MILITARY EXERCISES
MILITARY
EXERCISES
MISSILES
The speed of Missiles are measured in Mach Number.

DEFENCE MANIA
DEFENCE MANIA
DEFENCE MANIA
DEFENCE MANIA

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