GK related to

defence services
Equipment of the Indian
Army
Navy
Air Force
Artillery
Howitzers
A howitzer is a type of artillery piece
that has short barrel and the use for
propelling projectiles over relatively
high trajectories, with a steep angle
of descent.
 M777 howitzer

K9 Vajra
DRDO Advanced Towed
Artillery Gun System
(ATAGS)
Dhanush Howitzer
Missile systems
Anti-tank guided missiles
Nag missile

• Spike (ATGM)
Ballistic, Cruise and Anti-Ballistic
Missiles
• BrahmosCruise missile
300 km range.
• Nirbhay Cruise missile
1,000 –1500 km range.
• Prahaar
150 km range.
• Prithvi-I
Short-range ballistic missile 150 km
range.
• Prithvi-II
Short-range ballistic missile
250 – 350 km range.
• Prithvi-III
Short-range ballistic missile.
350 – 600 km range.
• Shaurya
Medium-range ballistic missile .
700–1900 km range.
• Agni-I
Medium-range ballistic missile
. 700 – 1250 km range.
• Agni-II
Intermediate-range ballistic missile
2000 – 3500 km range.
• Agni-III
Intermediate-range ballistic missile
3500 – 5000 km range.
• Agni-IV
Intermediate-range ballistic missile
4000 – 6000 km range.
• Agni-V
Intercontinental ballistic missile
• Agni-VI
. Intercontinental ballistic missile
. 8,000 – 10,000 km range.
• Advanced Air Defence
(Ashwin Anti Ballistic Interceptor Missile)
Ballistic missile defence system
Surface-to-air missile.
also used as Anti-aircraft missile.
150 km range and flight ceiling of 30 km. It is
under Phase 1 Indian Ballistic Missile Defence
Programme.
S-400 Triumf
• The S-400 Triumf can engage all types of aerial
targets such as aircraft, ballistic and cruise
missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), which
are within the range of 400km, at an altitude of
up to 30km.
Aircraft
Helicopters
Boeing AH-64 Apache
. USA Attack helicopter
HAL Light Combat Helicopter
India Attack helicopter

HAL Rudra
India Attack helicopter
 Utility helicopter
• HAL Dhruv

• Kamov Ka-226

• HAL Light Utility Helicopter

• HAL Cheetah, Utility helicopter

 UAVs
• IAI Heron

• IAI Searcher

• IAI Harpy

• IAI Harop
Radar
Rajendra
.Passive electronically scanned array radar
INDRA
Passive electronically scanned array radar
Swathi Weapon Locating Radar
Artillery Locating Radar.
Rohini
3D radar
Fighter Aircraft
• MiG-21 Soviet Union

• MiG-29 Soviet Union

• Sukhoi Su-30 Russia

• HAL Tejas India

 Attack Aircraft
• SEPECAT Jaguar UK / France

• MiG-27 Soviet Union

Trainer Aircraft
• MiG-21 Soviet Union

• MiG-23 Soviet Union

• Mirage 2000 France

• BAE Hawk United Kingdom

Transport
• Boeing C-17 United States

• Ilyushin Il-76 Soviet Union

• Antonov An-32 Ukraine

• Dornier Do 228 Germany

Submarine
 Nuclear-powered submarines
• Arihant class Arihant Ballistic missile
submarine (SSBN)

• INS Arighat

• Chakra (Akula II) class

Russia
Conventionally-powered
submarines
• Kalvari class

• INS Khanderi and INS Karanj

The second and third vessels of the Kalvari-class submarines. A
total of six Kalvari-class submarines are to be built under Project
P75.

• Sindhughosh class
 Aircraft carriers
• Kiev class
INS Vikramaditya
Guided missile destroyer
• Kolkata class

• Delhi class

• Rajput class
Torpedo recovery vessels
• INS Astradharani