Indian Defence Forces and Defence Awareness Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, mottos, operations, exercises, missile classifications, internal security organizations, and historical milestones of the Indian Armed Forces.

Post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)

Created in 2019 in the rank of a 4-Star General, with General Bipin Rawat serving as the first Chief of Defence Staff.

Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa

The First Indian Chief of Army Staff.

Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee

The First Indian Chief of Air Staff.

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

The First Indian Chief of Naval Staff.

Indian Army Motto

"Seva Parmo Dharmah (Service Before Self)".

Indian Navy Motto

Sam No Varunah.

Indian Air Force Motto

Touch The Sky With Glory, derived from the 11th Chapter of the GITA.

Motto of DRDO

Balasya Mulam Vigyanam (Strength's origin is in Science).

Asmi

India's first indigenous machine pistol, jointly developed by DRDO & Infantry School, Mhow.

Saras

First Commercial Civilian Aircraft developed by India, designed and developed jointly by National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

Exercise Tarang Shakti

India's largest multinational air exercise.

Exercise AIKYA

A two-day national symposium launched by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Southern Command of the Indian Army.

Subsonic Missile

Missiles that travel slower than sound with a speed less than $1\,\text{Mach}$ (e.g., Nirbhay).

Supersonic Missile

Missiles that travel faster than the speed of sound ($\text{Mach } 1$) but less than $\text{Mach } 5$ (e.g., Brahmos).

Hypersonic Missile

Missiles with a speed of more than $\text{Mach } 5$ (e.g., Brahmos II).

Agni-V

India's first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), with a range of around $5000-8000\,km$.

Mission Divyastra

The test mission that successfully launched the Agni-V missile using MIRV (Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle) technology.

Operation Meghdoot

Operation launched on April 13, 1984, by the Indian Army, Indian Air Force, and paramilitary troops to regain control of the heights commanding the Siachen glacier.

Operation Poomalai

IAF operation assigned to air drop supplies over Jaffna in Sri Lanka in support of Tamil Tigers.

Project 15 B

Visakhapatnam Class stealth guided-missile destroyer ships built by Mazagon Dock Limited, comprising INS Vishakapatnam, INS Mormogaon, INS Imphal, and INS Surat.

Project 75 (1)

Indigenous construction project of six Kalvari Class Diesel-Electric Attack submarines: INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi, INS Karanj, INS Vela, INS Vagir, and INS Vagsheer.

Assam Rifles

Internal security organization established in 1835 (formerly Cachar Levy), headquartered in Shillong, with the motto 'Friends of the Hill People'.

Border Security Force (BSF)

Internal security organization established in 1965, headquartered in New Delhi, with the motto 'Duty Unto Death (Jeevan Paryant Kartavya)'.