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The college enjoyed autonomy after the splitting of the Corps of Army Air Defence from the Regiment of Artillery. In 2008, the Army Air Defence Centre and in 2014 ,Army Air Defence Records were also moved to Gopalpur . Army Air Defence College. The Army Air Defence College located at Gopalpur is a premier training institute of Indian Army.
The Corps of Army Air Defence (abbreviated as AAD), is an active corps of the Indian Army and a major combat support arm tasked with air defence of the country from foreign threats. The AAD is responsible for the protection of Indian air space from enemy aircraft and missiles, especially below 5,000 feet.
Military administration identifies both the techniques and systems used by military departments, agencies, and armed services involved in managing the armed forces. It describes the processes that take place within the military organisations outside combat, particularly in managing military personnel, their training, and services they are provided with as part of their military service.
Services Selection Board (SSB) is an organization that assesses the candidates for becoming officers in the Indian Armed Forces. The board evaluates the suitability of the candidate for becoming an officer using a standardized protocol of evaluation system which constitutes intelligence tests, and personality interviews.
Introduced in light of the ballistic missile threat from Pakistan, [260] it is a double-tiered system consisting of two interceptor missiles, namely the Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) missile for high-altitude interception, and the Advanced Air Defence (AAD) Missile for lower altitude interception. The two-tiered shield should be able to intercept ...
The Regiment was awarded the Director General Army Air Defence’s (DGAAD) unit appreciation award in 2004 and 2011. The Regiment was awarded a unit citation by General Officer Command in Chief (Southern Command) in 2004.
436 Air Defence Regiment was raised in 1985 and equipped with ZSU-23-4 Shilka self-propelled air defence weapon systems. [1] The weapon platform was subsequently changed to Osa-AK Missile Systems . The regiment consists of 4361, 4362 and 4363 air defence batteries.
At raising, the regiment was equipped with Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns.The unit was re-organised as a Composite Air Defence Regiment in November 1977, when it was equipped with one battery of the Soviet ZSU-23-4 Shilka self-propelled, radar-guided anti-aircraft weapon system and two batteries of Soviet ZU-23 towed 23×152 mm anti-aircraft twin-barrelled auto-cannons.