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In India, the term "commando" is generally used to refer to the Special forces of India. 2 of the 3 Indian special forces currently have the word "commando" in their name while the other dropped the word "commando" for "Special Forces" in the late 1970s. [7] Para (Special Forces) (Indian Army) MARCOS (Indian Navy) Garud Commando Force (Indian ...
The corps was formed from the Sapper and Miner Groups of each of the erstwhile presidencies of British India. The Corps consists of three groups of combat engineers, namely the Madras Sappers, the Bengal Sappers and the Bombay Sappers. The list of Engineer regiments is as follows:
The Indian Army has four types of regiments based on class composition [7] [8] - . Single Class- These regiments have troops from a single class, e.g. Dogra Regiment.This group also includes three scout units (highlighted in green), which are affiliated with an existing regiment.
The list of regiments forming part of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army is as follows. This list is as per unit serial number but not as per the order of precedence of the Indian Army. In that list, The President's Bodyguard is first, but is followed by 16 Light Cavalry, 7 Light Cavalry, 8 Cavalry and 1st Horse.
Lieutenant Navdeep Singh of the 15th Battalion, Maratha Light Infantry was the Ghatak Platoon commander during an operation to ambush 17 well-trained and armed terrorists who had infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir, for which he was posthumously awarded India's highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra. [11] [12]
Upon the establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations.Nevertheless, the armed forces, namely, the British Indian Army (IA), the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) - under the helm of King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief - retained their respective pre-independence ranks and corresponding ...
India has maritime security arrangements in place with Oman and Qatar. [128] In 2008, a landmark defence pact was signed, under which India committed its military assets to protect "Qatar from external threats". [129] On 9 June 2012, the JIMEX 2012 naval exercise took place off the coast of Tamil Nadu in India to Tokyo in Japan.
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