Weapons and Equipment used by the Indian Army

List of Weapons and Equipment used by the Indian Army

Indian Army is the land branch of the Indian Armed Forces. Indian Army is the world’s largest fighting force. Indian Army safeguards India’s Borders from external aggression and maintains internal security against armed insurgency. The motto of the Indian Army is ‘Service Before Self’ or सेवा परमो धर्म:

 

Indian Army uses a range of Arms and Equipment for conducting its operations. List some Arms and equipment used by Indian Army are following as-

 

List of Arms used by the Infantry in the Indian Army-

 

 

Types of Arms	Names
Pistol	Glock 17, SIG Sauer P226, Beretta Px4
Rifles	Ak-47, Sig Sauer, Ak-203, INSAS, SLR, Tavor
Machine Gun	IMI Negev, PK Machine Gun, M2 Browning,
Sniper	IMI Galil, Dragunov, Sako TRG, Vidhwansak

 

List of Helicopter used in the Indian Army-

 

 

Helicopter Type	Name
Transport	HAL Dhruv, HAL Chetak, HAL Cheetah
Attack	HAL Rudra, HAL Prachand, AH-64 Apache

 

 

List of Tanks used by Indian Army-

 

 

Tank	Variants	Quantity
T-72 Ajeya	Ajeya	2410
	Ajeya Mk2
T-90 Bhisma	T90S	2078
	T90Bhisma
Arjun	Arjun Mk1	126
	Arjun Mk1A

 

 Artillery used in in the Indian Army -

 

 

Weapons	Quantity
K9 Vajra	100
Pinaka MBRL	288
M777	89
Dhanush	12
Sharang	1100

 

Indian Army uses a range of other Arms and equipment like missiles(Akash, Prithvi, Agni) and other vehicles also. Defence Aspirants must be familiar with these weapons and equipment. Candidates should know their utilization, range, and numbers. This information can be asked in the exam or SSB interview. For more information related to Defence or Current Affairs, you can check out other Articles of our website.