Chief of the Air Staff (India): Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh
Pokhran Location: Jaisalmer District, Rajasthan
HAL Prachand: First Indian light combat helicopter developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Location: Pokhran Field Firing Range, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
Chief of Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari (or serving CAS)
Focus: Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS)
Lucknow is the headquarters of the Indian Army's Central Command.
Chief of Army Staff: Gen Upendra Dwivedi (Current).
Vice Chief of Army Staff (Designate): Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth (effective 1 April 2026).
Netra AEW&C was developed by the Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS), a laboratory of DRDO.
CABS is situated in Bengaluru.
The platform utilizes the Brazilian Embraer EMB-145I aircraft.
FMS: Foreign Military Sales (US government program for defense procurement)
M777A2: Ultra-light artillery gun manufactured by BAE Systems
AH-64E Apache: Advanced attack helicopter manufactured by Boeing
BrahMos Aerospace: Joint Venture between India (DRDO) and Russia (NPO Mashinostroyeniya)
BrahMos Headquarters: New Delhi, India
Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) Headquarters: Hyderabad, Telangana
Ministry of Defence (MoD) current Minister: Rajnath Singh
NTPC stands for National Thermal Power Corporation
BESS stands for Battery Energy Storage System
Union Minister of Defence: Rajnath Singh
Integrated Test Range (ITR) Location: Chandipur, Balasore district, Odisha
NIBE Defence Hub Location: Shirdi, Maharashtra
AMCA: Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft
ADA: Aeronautical Development Agency
DRDO: Defence Research and Development Organisation
BDL Headquarters: Hyderabad, Telangana
