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Mounted ZU 23 MM Twin Gun Tunguska Mount System OSA- AK Weapon System Akash surface to air missile. Air Defence Artillery in India was first established by the British Government ruling India in 1939, at the start of World War II to counter the growing aerial threat from the Axis powers, especially from the Japanese in East Asia.
Recently developed, India's Akash missile defence system also has the capability to "neutralise aerial targets like fighter jets, cruise missiles and air-to-surface missiles". [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Project Kusha is an Indian long-range mobile surface-to- air missile defence system under development by the Defence Research and Development Organization ...
The system comprises a free-flight artillery rocket with different types of warheads & fuzes, a multi-tube launcher vehicle, a replenishment-cum-loader vehicle, a replenishment vehicle and a command post vehicle. The system is capable of firing in salvo mode within 48 sec, neutralizing an area of 700 x 500 m.
At the time of independence, Indian Artillery consisted of Field, Medium, Air Defence, Counter Bombardment, Coastal, Air Observation Post and Survey branches. After the partition of India in 1947, the Royal Indian Artillery was divided with India being allotted eighteen and a half regiments while remaining nine and half units went to Pakistan. [7]
Air Defence Systems Akashteer: Automated Air Defence Control & Reporting System 100 India: Status: In service. First batch delivered by BEL in April 2024. [271] All delivered by September 2024. [272] Barak-8 (MR-SAM) Medium-range surface-to-air missile: 5 regiments for Army (40 launchers). 18 squadrons for IAF. India Israel: Status: In service.
103 Air Defence Regiment was raised on 22 August 1949 at Colaba in Bombay (now Mumbai) as 103 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment of the Territorial Army. It consists of 509, 510 and 511 air defence batteries. The regiment has been subsequently converted to a regular regiment of the Indian Army. [1] [2]
Army Air Defence College: The Army Air Defence College (AADC), Gopalpur imparts training for provision of effective Air Defence Artillery protection to ground forces against long and medium altitude enemy air attacks and also to preserve specified tactical and strategic vital areas and pivotal points from critical danger and destruction from ...
The BSF has grown from 25 battalions in 1965, to 193 battalions with a sanctioned strength of 270,000 personnel including an expanding air wing, water wing, an artillery regiment and specialised units. [5] [6] It is currently the world's largest border security force. BSF has been termed the First Line of Defence of Indian territories. [7]