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| S. No | Topic | Page |
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| 1. | Indian Defence System | 1-3 |
| (a) | Indian Army | 1 |
| (b) | Indian Air Force | 2 |
| (c) | Indian Navy | 2 |
| 2. | List of Indian Chief of Army Staff – From 1947 Till Date | 4-5 |
| 3. | List of Air Chief Marshal of India (1947-Present) | 6-7 |
| 4. | List of Chief of Naval Staff of India | 8-9 |
| 5. | Formation and Structure of Indian Army | 10-12 |
| 6. | Know About “Chief of Defence Staff” | 13-14 |
| 7. | Types of Entry to Join Indian Army as an Officer | 15-16 |
| 8. | Equivalent Ranks in the Armed Forces | 17-19 |
| 9. | Indian Army Rank Badges | 20-21 |
| 10. | Equivalence Ranks According to 7th Cpc | 22 |
| 11. | Important Defence Related Terms | 23-28 |
| 12. | Important Military Operations | 29-30 |
| 13. | Airforce And Navy Exercises of India With Other Countries 2017 | 31-32 |
| 14. | Joint Military Exercises of India During the Year 2017-18 | 33-35 |
| 15. | Joint Military Exercises of India 2018-19 | 36-41 |
| 16. | Indian Armed Forces Motto and Battle (War) Cry | 42-43 |
| 17. | These 33 Mottos of Indian Armed Forces Units Will Fill You with Patriotism | 44-48 |
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| S. No | Topic | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 18. | 5 Things You Must Know About Operation Bandar – Balakot Air Strikes | 49 |
| 19. | 7 Interesting Facts About Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman | 50-51 |
| 20. | 8 Interesting Facts About Gorkha Rifles | 52 |
| 21. | 23 Interesting and Inspiring Facts About Kumaon Regiment | 53-54 |
| 22. | 21 ‘Powerful’ Facts About the Grenadiers, The Longest Serving Regiment of Indian Army | 55-57 |
| 23. | 15 Amazing Facts About National Cadet Corps (NCC) | 58-63 |
| 24. | Features of Rafale Aircraft: At a Glance | 64-65 |
| 25. | A Look at The Rafale’s India Specific Enhancements | 66-67 |
| 26. | List of Active Indian Military Aircraft | 68-73 |
| (i) | Air Force | 69 |
| (ii) | Army Aviation Corps | 70 |
| (iii) | Naval Air Arm | 70 |
| (iv) | Indian Coast Gurad | 71 |
| (v) | Ncc Air Wing | 72 |
| (vi) | Border Security Force | 72 |
| (vii) | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | 72 |
| 27. | Indian Army Combat Vehicles | 74-75 |
| 28. | List of Important Missiles of India | 76-78 |
| (i) | Air-To-Air Missiles | 76 |
| (ii) | Surface-To-Air Missiles | 76 |
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| S. No | Topic | Page |
|---|---|---|
| (iii) | Defence Missile | 76 |
| (iv) | Cruise Missiles | 76 |
| (v) | Surface-To-Surface Missiles | 77 |
| (vi) | Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles | 78 |
| (vii) | Anti-Tank Missile | 78 |
| 29. | List of Drdo Laboratories | 79-81 |
| 30. | Param Vir Chakra:Highest Gallantry Award in India | 82 |
| 31. | List of Param Vir Chakra Winners | 83-85 |
| 32. | Gallantry Awards 2019 | 86-92 |
| 33. | Monetary Allowance for The Gallantry Award Winners of India | 93-94 |
| 34. | Important Days of Indian Defence | 95-96 |
| 35. | Indian Military Academy (IMA) At A Glance | 97-104 |
| (i) | IMA Campus and Landmarks | 97 |
| (ii) | Entries in IMA | 99 |
| (iii) | Training in IMA | 100 |
| (iv) | Life of A GC in IMA | 103 |
| 36. | Defence Current Affairs: Last 15 Months (Jan 2019 To March 2020) | 105-125 |
| 37. | MCQ’s With Explanation: Defence General Knowledge | 126-142 |
| 38. | Defence GK Quiz: Practice | 143-152 |
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INDIAN DEFENCE SYSTEM
<mark>The president of India is the supreme commander of the Indian Defence System. The whole administrative control of the Armed forces lies in the Ministry of Defence. Indian Defence System has been divided into three services –</mark> <mark>Army, Navy and Air force.</mark>
(a) INDIAN ARMY
<mark>The Indian Army is organised into seven commands:</mark>
| S.No. | Command | Headquarter |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western command | Chandigarh |
| 2 | Eastern command | Kolkata |
| 3 | Northern command | Udhampur |
| 4 | Southern command | Pune |
| 5 | Central command | Lucknow |
| 6 | Army Training Command | Shimla |
| 7 | South Western Command | Jaipur |
<mark>Each command is under a General Officer Commanding-in-chief of the rank of Lieutenant General. The commands are divided into Areas and Sub-Areas. An area is commanded by a General Officer Commanding of the rank of a Major General and a sub-area by a Brigadier.</mark>
<mark>INDIAN ARMY TRAINING INSTITUTES:</mark>
| S.No. | Name of Institutes | Location |
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| 1 | National Defence Academy | Khadakvasla |
| 2 | National Defence college | New delhi |
| 3 | Indian Military Academy | Dehradun |
| 4 | Defence Services Staff College | Wellington (TN) |
| 5 | Armed Forces Medical College | Pune |
| 6 | Infantry School | Mhow |
| 7 | Rashtriya Indian Military College | Dehradun |
| 8 | Artillery Training | Deolali |
| 9 | Army Ordance Corps School | Jabalpur |
| 10 | Army Cadet College | Dehradun |
| 11 | College of Defence Management | Secunderabad |
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| 12 | College of Military Engineering | Kirkee, pune |
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| 13 | Armoured Corps Centre and School | Ahmednagar |
| 14 | College of Combat | Mhow |
| 15 | Officers training Academy | Chennai |
(b) INDIAN AIR FORCE
<mark>Indian Air Force is organised into seven commands, these are:</mark>
| S.No. | Command | Headquarter |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western command | New Delhi |
| 2 | Central command | Allahabad |
| 3 | Eastern command | Shillong |
| 4 | South western command | Jodhpur |
| 5 | Training command | Bangaluru |
| 6 | Maintenance command | Nagpur |
| 7 | Southern command | Thiruvananthapuram |
(c) INDIAN NAVY
<mark>Indian Navy is organised into following commands, these are</mark>
| S.No. | Command | Headquarter |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eastern command | Vishakhapatnam |
| 2 | Southern command | Kochi |
| 3 | Western command | Mumbai |
Indian Navy: Important Points At a Glance
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➢ Each command is headed by Vice Admiral.
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➢ The Navy is headed by the ‘’Chief of the Naval Staff” of the rank of Admiral.
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➢ The first Aircraft Carrier of Indian Navy was INS Vikrant. India’s largest Aircraft carrier is INS Viraat. After retirement of Vikrant, Viraat is the main guard of Indian coastline. It was commissioned in 1987 and will continue is service till 2010.
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➢ INS chakra was India’s first nuclear submarine.
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➢ INS Vibhuti was India’s first indigenously built missile boat launched at Mazgaon docks in Mumbai.
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➢ INS Savitri was India’s first warship fabricated at Hindustan Shipyard Limited in 1990.
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➢ INS Shakti was India’s first indigenously built submarine.
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➢ INS Delhi is India’s largest and most sophisticated indigenously built worship. It was launched in 1991 at Mazgaon docks and commissioned in 1997.
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➢ INS Kadamba is India’s largest naval base situated at Darwar, Karwar, Karnataka. It was commissioned in 2005 under the project ‘Seabird’.
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➢ INS Talwar is firt of the three high-tech stealth frigates built by Russia for Indian navy.
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➢ Nilgiri is India’s first indigenous stealth frigate. It was built at Mazgaon dockyard,
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➢ INS Prahar is world’s fastest missile ship, commissioned in 1997.
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➢ INS Mysore is Indian navy’s most modernised indigenously built warship, commissioned in 1999.
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➢ INS Beas, the advanced guided missile frigate, was commissioned in 2005.
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➢ INS Arihant, the indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, was symbolically launched in 2009.
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➢ INS Chakra-II is the Akula class submarine, acquired from Russia in 2012.
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➢ INS Tarkash: the second of the Russian-built Talwar class stealth frigates – INS Tarkash – equipped with supersonic curise missiles was commissioned into the Navy at the Yantar Shipyard in Russia on Nov 9, 2012.
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➢ INS Teg Frigate: The Indian navy inducted newly-built INS Teg in its fleet at the Yantar shipyard in Russia’s Kaliningrad on April 27.
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➢ INS Sahyadri: Indigenously built stealth warship ‘INS Sahyadri’ was commissioned on July 21, 2012 in the Indian Navy, adding firepower to its anti-submarine warfare capabilities. The frigate is the last in series of stealth warships after ‘INS Shivalik’ and ‘INS Satpura’, the first two in the class- INS Shivalik and INS Satpura – were commissioned in Apri 2010 and August 2011, respectively.
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➢ INS Dweeprakshak: As part of its efforts to augment the security of the strategically significant Lakshadweep archipelago, the navy commissioned a full-scale naval base, INS dweeprakash, at Kaavaratti on April 30, 2012.
(d) COAST GUARD REGIONS
| S. No | Regional HQs | HQs |
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