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Indian Armed Forces: Combined military forces of India
The Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of India. It consists of three professional uniformed services: the Indian Army, Indian Navy, and Indian Air Force. Additionally, the Indian Armed Forces are supported by the Central Armed Police Forces, Indian Coast Guard and Special Frontier Force and various inter-service commands and institutions such as the Strategic Forces Command, the Andaman and Nicobar Command and the Integrated Defence Staff. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces but the executive authority and responsibility for national security is vested in the Prime Minister of India and their chosen Cabinet Ministers. The Indian Armed Forces are under the management of the Ministry of Defence of the Government of India. With strength of over 1.4 million active personnel, it is the world's second-largest military force and has the world's largest volunteer army. It also has the third-largest defence budget in the world. The Global Firepower Index report lists it as the fourth most-powerful military.

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REVEALED! Details of Operation Sindoor | How India Jammed Pak’s China-made Air Defence Systems [Video]

REVEALED! Details of Operation Sindoor | How India Jammed Pak’s China-made Air Defence Systems

The Government of India and Indian Armed Forces have officially released a detailed account of Operation Sindoor, India’s high-precision retaliatory strike on terror infrastructure inside Pakistan...

Credit: Oneindia     Duration: 03:11Published
PM Modi On Op Sindoor | ‘Told terrorism the consequences of removing sindoor from Indian women’ [Video]

PM Modi On Op Sindoor | ‘Told terrorism the consequences of removing sindoor from Indian women’

PM Modi in his first address to the nation after the Pahalgam terror attack, saluted the Indian Armed forces, Intelligence agencies and Scientists for carrying out the Operation Sindoor. He said that..

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Pak Nuclear Sites Hit? Indian Army Breaks Silence On Kirana Hills Nuke Installation Blasted by IAF [Video]

Pak Nuclear Sites Hit? Indian Army Breaks Silence On Kirana Hills Nuke Installation Blasted by IAF

India’s Air Marshal AK Bharti breaks silence on rumors of an IAF strike on Pakistan’s Kirana Hills nuclear site. Amid rising tensions, speculation had swirled around a potential hit on Mushaf..

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Chinese weapons fail against India’s advance Air Defence System | Indian Military releases images [Video]

Chinese weapons fail against India’s advance Air Defence System | Indian Military releases images

India’s advanced Air Defence systems completely obliterated Pakistan’s Chinese-origin weapons like the PL-15 missile and others. The Indian Military has now released images as proof of the..

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India kills terrorists involved in hijack of IC-814 & Pulwama Terror Attack | Operation Sindoor [Video]

India kills terrorists involved in hijack of IC-814 & Pulwama Terror Attack | Operation Sindoor

Indian forces have successfully neutralised Abdul Rauf and Yusuf Azhar—key masterminds behind the IC-814 hijack and Pulwama attack—in a high-impact cross-border strike under Operation Sindoor. Over..

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India busts Pak’s lies | ‘Operation focused exclusively on terror camps, no religious site targeted’ [Video]

India busts Pak’s lies | ‘Operation focused exclusively on terror camps, no religious site targeted’

India exposes Pakistan’s claims of the Indian armed forces attacking mosques and other religious sites. Wg Cdr Vyomika Singh says ‘India is a secular nation’ and ‘places of worship of all..

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India HITS Sialkot Airbase: Armed Forces Ready for Escalation As Pakistan Troops Move Forward [Video]

India HITS Sialkot Airbase: Armed Forces Ready for Escalation As Pakistan Troops Move Forward

Amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan, the Indian Armed Forces have carried out a precision strike on Pakistan's Sialkot airbase. Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, speaking at a press briefing,..

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Civilians Killed as Pakistan Targets Indian Towns | India's Responds as Pakistan Mobilizes Troops [Video]

Civilians Killed as Pakistan Targets Indian Towns | India's Responds as Pakistan Mobilizes Troops

Indian Wing Commander Vyomika Singh confirmed heightened Pakistani troop movements toward the border, signaling offensive intent. Under the newly launched #OperationSindoor, the Indian Armed Forces are..

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IAF Rains Fire on Pakistan: Retaliates to Drone, Missile Attack; Civilians Safe, Targets Obliterated [Video]

IAF Rains Fire on Pakistan: Retaliates to Drone, Missile Attack; Civilians Safe, Targets Obliterated

Pakistan's unprovoked drone and missile attacks on Indian territory have triggered a swift and precise military response. The Indian Air Force intercepted and neutralised incoming threats, ensuring..

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‘Pak’s drones were possibly sent to gather intel’ | ‘India’s respond foiled Pak’s bid’ [Video]

‘Pak’s drones were possibly sent to gather intel’ | ‘India’s respond foiled Pak’s bid’

IndiaN Armed Forces say that the Drones fired by Pakistan into Indian territory with the dual objective of testing India’s Air Defence Systems and gathering sensitive intel. Pakistan made attempts at..

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Massive Attack on Jammu: - S-400 Takes Down Pakistani Missiles | India's Air Defence in Action [Video]

Massive Attack on Jammu: - S-400 Takes Down Pakistani Missiles | India's Air Defence in Action

In a major escalation, Pakistan launched a series of drone strikes and artillery attacks targeting key locations across Jammu. The Indian Armed Forces responded swiftly, with the advanced S-400 air..

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MEA slams ‘Coward’ Pakistan for targetting innocent civilians in cross-border firing | Watch! [Video]

MEA slams ‘Coward’ Pakistan for targetting innocent civilians in cross-border firing | Watch!

16 innocent Indian civilians were killed and close to 60 injured after Pakistan resorted to attacking civilians after India conducted ‘measured, focused and non-escalatory’ precision strikes..

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India Smashes Pakistan’s China-Made HQ-9 in Lahore Strike; India Crushes Pak’s Defence | Op Sindoor [Video]

India Smashes Pakistan’s China-Made HQ-9 in Lahore Strike; India Crushes Pak’s Defence | Op Sindoor

In a high-precision retaliatory strike under Operation Sindoor, India has destroyed Pakistan’s China-made HQ-9 air defence system in Lahore, delivering a massive blow to its military capabilities...

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India’s Operation Sindoor Obliterates Pak Terror Camps; Celebrations Across India, Slogans Raised [Video]

India’s Operation Sindoor Obliterates Pak Terror Camps; Celebrations Across India, Slogans Raised

India erupted in patriotic celebration after the success of Operation Sindoor, a powerful airstrike mission that obliterated nine key terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. From Pune..

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Op Sindoor | Why India hit these terror sites in Pak | How the camps fuelled terror against India [Video]

Op Sindoor | Why India hit these terror sites in Pak | How the camps fuelled terror against India

The Indian Armed forces conducted a midnight operation named ‘Operation Sindoor’ launching precision missile strikes and decimating 9 terror camps deep inside Pakistan to avenge the Pahalgam Terror..

Credit: Oneindia     Duration: 04:47Published
India DECIMATES PAK Grown Terror With Killing 26 terrorists With Airstrikes In POK [Video]

India DECIMATES PAK Grown Terror With Killing 26 terrorists With Airstrikes In POK

In a midnight blitz that has sent shockwaves across the border, India has launched Operation Sindoor, targeting and annihilating 9 major terror hubs in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)...

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