This article lists the regiments of the

Indian Army The Indian Army is the Land warfare, land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Arm ...

, including the various corps of supporting arms and services.

History

Historic list of regiments

The following old lists in this section have been replaced by the present list provided in the subsequent sections: *

List of regiments of the Indian Army (1903) The Commander-in-Chief of India, Lord Kitchener carried out a reform of the British Indian Army in 1903. These reforms were intended to improve the Army, which had been formed from the separate Bengal, Bombay and Madras presidency armies in 18 ...

* List of regiments of the Indian Army (1922)

Regiments

Armoured

# President's Bodyguard # 1st Horse (Skinner's Horse) # 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) # 3rd Cavalry # 4th Horse (Hodson's Horse) # 5th Armoured Regiment # 6th Lancers #

7th Light Cavalry The 7th Light Cavalry previously the 28th Light Cavalry, was a regular army cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1784 under the East India Company. The regiment later saw service on the North West Frontier and in World Wa ...

# 8th Light Cavalry # 9th Horse (The Deccan Horse) # 10 Armoured Regiment # 11 Armoured Regiment # 12 Armoured Regiment # 13 Armoured Regiment # 14 Horse (The Scinde Horse) # 15 Armoured Regiment # 16th Light Cavalry # 17th Horse (The Poona Horse) #

18th Cavalry The 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry was a regular cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. Following the independence of India, the regiment was allotted to the Indian Army and redesignated as the 18th Cavalry. Formation Tracing its origins ...

# 19 Armoured Regiment # 20 Lancers # 21 Horse (Central India Horse) # 41 Armoured Regiment # 42 Armoured Regiment # 43 Armoured Regiment # 44 Armoured Regiment #

45 Cavalry 45 Cavalry is an armoured regiment in the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. The regiment distinguished itself in operations during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War winning one Maha Vir Chakra. Raising The first 45th Cavalry was formed in August 191 ...

84 Armoured Regiment 84 Armoured Regiment is an armoured regiment of the Indian Army. The regiment was raised on 1 July 1976 at the Remount Depot, Ahmednagar under the command of Lt Col Tarif Singh Dhiyia based on a ‘mixed class composition’ and equipped with Vij ...

# 85 Armoured Regiment # 86 Armoured Regiment # 87 Armoured Regiment # 88 Armoured Regiment # 89 Armoured Regiment # 90 Armoured Regiment

Artillery

In the Regiment of Artillery the battalion-sized units are referred to as regiments, a point of confusion on occasion. These units are equipped and named based on their type of equipment. There are two types of units. The majority are regiments that have weapons as their equipment, such as missiles, rockets, field guns, medium guns or mortars. The second type of regiment are those that have mission support equipment, such as UAVs, drones, surveillance radars, weapon locating radar etc.

Weapon equipped units

Weapon-equipped units of the Regiment of Artillery are listed below: # 1 Medium Regiment (Meiktila) # 2 Medium Regiment (Self Propelled) (Letse & Point 171) # 3 Medium Regiment # 4 Medium Regiment (Self Propelled) # 5 Medium Regiment # 6 Field Regiment # 7 Field Regiment (Gazala) # 8 Field Regiment #

9 (Parachute) Field Regiment 9 Parachute Field Regiment is part of the Regiment of Artillery of the Indian Army. Formation 9 Parachute Field Regiment was raised on 1 April 1943 at Kumbergaon, Pune, by Lieutenant Colonel R. A. Eden as 9 Field Regiment of the Royal Indian ...

# 10 Medium Regiment # 11 Medium Regiment (Zojila) # 12 Field Regiment # 13 Medium Regiment (Chushul & Gadra City) # 14 Medium Regiment # 15 Medium Regiment # 16 Medium Regiment #

17 (Parachute) Field Regiment (Zojila & Poongali Bridge) 17 (Parachute) Field Regiment (Zojila & Poongli Bridge) is part of the Regiment of Artillery (India), Regiment of Artillery of the Indian Army. Formation 17 Parachute Field Regiment was raised as the 8th Battalion, the 7th Rajput Regiment on 1 ...

# 18 Medium Regiment # 22 Medium Regiment (Sittang and Yenangyaung) # 23 Field Regiment (Ad Tecleasan and OP Hill) # 24 Field Regiment (Self Propelled) # 31 Field Regiment # 32 Field Regiment # 33 Medium Regiment # 34 Field Regiment (Cassino-II) # 35 Field Regiment # 36 Medium Regiment # 37 (Coorg) Field Regiment # 38 Field Regiment # 39 Field Regiment (Laleali & Piquet 707) # 40 Field Regiment (Asal Uttar) # 41 Medium Regiment (Kargil) # 42 Medium Regiment (Dera Baba Nanak) # 43 Medium Regiment # 44 Field Regiment # 49 Medium Regiment # 51 Medium Regiment # 52 Medium Regiment (Sanjoi-Mirpur) # 53 Field Regiment # 54 Field Regiment # 56 Field Regiment (Jitra) # 57 Field Regiment (Sittang & Yenangyaung) # 58 Medium Regiment # 59 Medium Regiment # 60 Medium Regiment # 61 Medium Regiment # 62 Medium Regiment # 63 Field Regiment # 64 Field Regiment # 65 Field Regiment # 66 Medium Regiment # 67 Field Regiment # 68 Medium Regiment (Parbat Ali) # 69 Medium Regiment # 70 Field Regiment # 71 Field Regiment # 72 Field Regiment #

73 Field Regiment 73 may refer to: * 73 (number) * one of the years 73 BC, AD 73, 1973, 2073 * ''73'' (magazine), a United States-based amateur radio magazine * 73 Best regards, a popular Morse code abbreviation * ''No. 73'', a British 1980s children's TV show * ...

# 74 Medium Regiment # 75 Medium Regiment (Basantar River) #

76 Field Regiment 76 or Seventy-Six may refer to: Common uses * 76 (number) * One of the years 76 BC, AD 76, 1776, 1876, 1976, 2076 Places * Seventy Six, Kentucky * Seventy-Six, Missouri * Seventy-Six Township, Iowa (disambiguation), several places Arts, entert ...

# 77 Field Regiment # 78 Field Regiment # 79 Medium Regiment # 80 Medium Regiment # 81 Field Regiment # 90 Field Regiment # 91 Field Regiment (Asal Uttar) # 92 Field Regiment # 93 Field Regiment # 94 Field Regiment # 95 Field Regiment # 96 Medium Regiment # 97 Field Regiment # 98 Field Regiment # 99 Field Regiment (Sylhet) #

100 Field Regiment 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

# 101 Field Regiment (Harar Kalan) # 102 Field Regiment # 106 Medium Regiment # 108 Field Regiment (Kargil) # 110 Medium Regiment # 111 Rocket Regiment #

113 Field Regiment 113 may refer to: *113 (number), a natural number *AD 113, a year *113 BC, a year *113 (band), a French hip hop group *113 (MBTA bus), Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus route *113 (New Jersey bus), Ironbound Garage in Newark and run to ...

# 114 Medium Regiment # 116 Medium Regiment # 118 Medium Regiment # 121 Light Regiment # 133 Medium Regiment # 136 Field Regiment # 137 Field Regiment # 138 Medium Regiment # 139 Medium Regiment (Kargil) # 141 Medium Regiment (Kargil) # 143 Medium Regiment #

150 Field Regiment Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music * Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak alb ...

198 Field Regiment __NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab u ...

# 199 Medium Regiment # 200 Field Regiment # 207 Medium Regiment # 210 Rocket Regiment # 212 Rocket Regiment (Kargil) #

213 Rocket Regiment Thirteen or 13 may refer to: * 13 (number), the natural number following 12 and preceding 14 * One of the years 13 BC, AD 13, 1913, 2013 Music * 13AD (band), an Indian classic and hard rock band Albums * 13 (Black Sabbath album), ''13'' (Black ...

# 214 Rocket Regiment # 216 Medium Regiment #

217 Field Regiment Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese ...

# 218 Medium Regiment # 219 Medium Regiment # 220 Field Regiment #

221 Field Regiment 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

# 222 Field Regiment # 223 Field Regiment # 224 Field Regiment #

225 Field Regiment 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...

226 Field Regiment 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

# 228 Field Regiment # 230 Medium Regiment # 237 Medium Regiment # 242 Medium Regiment # 244 Field Regiment # 246 Field Regiment # 253 Medium Regiment # 255 Medium Regiment # 262 Field Regiment # 268 Field Regiment # 269 Medium Regiment (Self Propelled) # 274 Field Regiment # 278 Field Regiment # 281 Field Regiment # 282 Medium Regiment # 283 Field Regiment # 284 Field Regiment # 285 Medium Regiment # 286 Field Regiment (Kargil) # 287 Field Regiment # 288 Medium Regiment # 290 Medium Regiment # 297 Medium Regiment # 298 Field Regiment (Kargil) # 299 Medium Regiment # 301 Light Regiment # 302 Light Regiment # 305 Field Regiment (Kargil) # 306 Field Regiment # 307 Medium Regiment # 310 Field Regiment # 311 Field Regiment # 312 Medium Regiment # 313 Field Regiment # 314 Heavy Mortar Regiment # 315 Field Regiment (Kargil) # 316 Field Regiment # 317 Field Regiment # 318 Medium Regiment # 320 Medium Regiment # 321 Field Regiment # 322 Field Regiment # 323 Field Regiment #

324 Field Regiment 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...

# 325 Field Regiment # 326 Field Regiment # 327 Medium Regiment # 328 Medium Regiment # 329 Medium Regiment # 330 Field Regiment # 331 Medium Regiment # 332 Field Regiment # 333 Missile Group # 334 Missile Group # 335 Missile Group # 336 Field Regiment # 337 Field Regiment # 338 Medium Regiment # 339 Medium Regiment # 340 Medium Regiment # 341 Medium Regiment # 343 Field Regiment # 344 Missile Regiment # 346 Field Regiment # 354 Missile Regiment # 371 Missile Regiment # 501 Light Regiment # 551 Rocket Regiment # 581 Light Regiment # 821 Light Regiment #

831 Light Regiment __NOTOC__ Year 831 ( DCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Byzantine–Arab War: Emperor Theophilos invades the Abbasid dominion ...

# 832 Light Regiment #

841 Rocket Regiment __NOTOC__ Year 841 ( DCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * June 25 – Battle of Fontenay: Frankish forces of Emperor Lothair I, and ...

# 851 Light Regiment # 852 Light Regiment # 861 Missile Regiment (Laleali & Picquet 707) # 862 Missile Regiment # 863 Missile Regiment # 864 Missile Regiment # 871 Field Regiment (Shingo) # 872 Light Regiment #

881 Missile Regiment __NOTOC__ Year 881 ( DCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * February 12 – King Charles the Fat, the third son of the late Louis the German, is crowned as Holy Roman Emper ...

# 891 Field Regiment # 1811 Medium Regiment # 1812 Rocket Regiment # 1821 Light Regiment # 1822 Light Regiment # 1831 Light Regiment # 1832 Light Regiment # 1841 Light Regiment # 1842 Light Regiment # 1851 Light Regiment # 1861 Light Regiment # 1862 Light Regiment # 1871 Field Regiment #

1872 Rocket Regiment Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 ''Ab urbe c ...

# 1880 Rocket Regiment # 1881 Light Regiment # 1889 Missile Regiment (Kargil) #

1890 Rocket Regiment Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe c ...

# 1900 Medium Regiment # 1905 Light Regiment # 1906 Light Regiment # 1907 Light Regiment # 1908 Light Regiment # 3342 Missile Regiment # 1988 (Independent) Medium Battery

SATA units

Units of the Regiment of Artillery that have equipment other than weapons are listed below. These units mainly have Surveillance and Target Acquisition (SATA) equipment,

Surveillance Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as ...

and

target acquisition Target acquisition is the detection and identification of the location of a target in sufficient detail to permit the effective employment of lethal and non-lethal means. The term is used for a broad area of applications. A "target" here is an e ...

is a military role assigned to units and/or their equipment. It involves watching an area to see what changes (surveillance) for the purpose of enemy

field artillery Field artillery is a category of mobile artillery used to support armies in the field. These weapons are specialized for mobility, tactical proficiency, short range, long range, and extremely long range target engagement. Until the early 20t ...

acquisition , then the acquisition of targets based on that information, and example of their equipment include

Counter-battery radar A counter-battery radar (alternatively weapon tracking radar or COBRA) is a radar system that detects artillery projectiles fired by one or more guns, howitzers, mortars or rocket launchers and, from their trajectories, locates the position on ...

(CoBRa) and

Unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controll ...

s (UAVs) (see also Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Asset (MAMBA)). # 20 SATA Regiment # 21 SATA Regiment # 122 SATA Regiment # 124 SATA Battery # 125 SATA Regiment # 126 SATA Battery # 127 SATA Regiment # 128 SATA Regiment # 129 SATA Regiment # 131 SATA Regiment # 132 SATA Regiment # 201 SATA Battery # 202 SATA Battery # 203 SATA Regiment # 204 SATA Battery # 205 SATA Battery # 206 SATA Battery # 229 SATA Battery # 267 SATA Battery # 279 SATA Battery # 289 SATA Battery # 617 SATA Battery # 618 SATA Battery # 619 SATA Battery # 620 SATA Battery # 621 SATA Battery # 622 SATA Battery # 623 SATA Battery # 624 SATA Battery # 625 SATA Battery # 626 SATA Battery # 627 SATA Battery # 628 SATA Battery # 629 SATA Battery # 630 SATA Battery # 631 SATA Battery # 632 SATA Battery # 633 SATA Battery # 634 SATA Battery # 635 SATA Battery # 636 SATA Battery # 637 SATA Battery # 638 SATA Battery # 641 SATA Battery

Infantry

Mechanised

Corps of Army Air Defence

The list of army air defence regiments is as follows: # 19 AD Regiment # 25 AD Regiment # 26 AD Regiment # 27 AD Missile Regiment (Amritsar Airfield) # 28 AD Regiment (India), 28 AD Regiment # 29 AD Regiment (Samba) (India), 29 AD Regiment (Samba) # 45 AD Regiment (Basantar River) # 46 AD Regiment # 47 AD Regiment # 48 AD Regiment (India), 48 AD Regiment # 49 AD Regiment # 50 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 103 AD Regiment # 104 AD Regiment # 105 AD Regiment # 107 AD Regiment # 109 Light AD Regiment (Self Propelled) # 126 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 127 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 128 AD Missile Regiment # 129 AD Regiment # 130 AD Regiment (India), 130 AD Regiment # 131 AD Regiment # 140 AD Regiment # 142 AD Regiment (Self Propelled) # 144 AD Regiment (Self Propelled) # 145 Light AD Regiment (Self Propelled) # 146 Light AD Regiment (Self Propelled) # 147 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 148 Light AD Regiment # 151 AD Regiment (Self Propelled) (Chhamb) # 152 AD Regiment # 156 Light AD Missile Regiment (Self propelled) # 157 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 322 AD Regiment # 323 AD Regiment # 325 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 326 Light AD Regiment # 401 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 402 Light AD Regiment # 403 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 404 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 405 Light AD Regiment (Self Propelled) # 407 Gun Missile AD Regiment # 436 AD Missile Regiment (Self Propelled) # 501 AD Group (Self Propelled) # 502 AD Group (Self Propelled) # 510 Light AD Missile Regiment (Self Propelled) # 511 AD Missile Regiment (Self Propelled) (Composite) # 512 Light AD Missile Regiment (Self Propelled) # 513 AD Missile Regiment (Self Propelled) # 514 AD Regiment (Self Propelled) # 912 Light AD Regiment # 916 Light AD Regiment (Composite) # 947 Light AD Regiment # 252 (Parachute) AD Battery

Corps of Engineers

These were formed from the Sapper and Miner Groups of each of the erstwhile presidencies of British India. They are listed below in order of precedence: # Madras Sappers # Bengal Sappers # Bombay Sappers

Army Aviation Corps

The Army Aviation Corps units are designated as 'Squadrons'. Each squadron generally consists of two Reconnaissance (Recce) and Observation Flights. R & O Flights might be part of squadrons or operate independently and do not have a parent squadron (designated by an (I) in their name). The suffix 'UH' stands for Utility Helicopter Flights and 'ALH-WSI' stands for HAL Rudra, Advanced Light Helicopter - Weapon Systems Integrated. ;Squadrons #201 Army Aviation Squadron (UH) #202 Army Aviation Squadron (UH) #203 Army Aviation Squadron (UH) #204 Army Aviation Squadron (UH) #205 Army Aviation Squadron (UH) #206 Army Aviation Squadron (UH) #207 Army Aviation Squadron (UH) #251 Army Aviation Squadron (ALH-WSI) #252 Army Aviation Squadron (ALH-WSI) #254 Army Aviation Squadron (ALH-WSI) #257 Army Aviation Squadron (ALH-WSI) #301 Army Aviation Squadron (Spec Ops) #659 Army Aviation Squadron #660 Army Aviation Squadron #661 Army Aviation Squadron #663 Army Aviation Squadron #664 Army Aviation Squadron #662 Army Aviation Squadron #665 Army Aviation Squadron #666 Army Aviation Squadron #667 Army Aviation Squadron #668 Army Aviation Squadron #669 Army Aviation Squadron #670 Army Aviation Squadron ;Flights #1 (I) R&O Flight #2 R&O Flight #3 R&O Flight #4 R&O Flight #5 R&O Flight #6 R&O Flight #7 R&O Flight #8 R&O Flight #9 R&O Flight #10 R&O Flight #11 R&O Flight #12 (I) R&O Flight #13 R&O Flight #14 R&O Flight #15 R&O Flight #16 R&O Flight #17 R&O Flight #18 R&O Flight #19 R&O Flight #20 R&O Flight #21 R&O Flight #22 (I) R&O Flight #23 (I) R&O Flight #24 R&O Flight #25 R&O Flight #26 R&O Flight #27 (I) R&O Flight #28 R&O Flight #29 R&O Flight #30 (I) R&O Flight #31 R&O Flight #32 R&O Flight #33 R&O Flight #34 R&O Flight #35 R&O Flight #58 RPA Flight #37 (I) R&O Flight #38 (I) R&O Flight #39 (I) R&O Flight #40 (I) R&O Flight #1 (I) UH Flight #2 (I) UH Flight #2011 UH Flight #2012 UH Flight #2021 UH Flight #2022 UH Flight #2031 UH Flight #2032 UH Flight #2041 UH Flight #2042 UH Flight #2051 UH Flight #2052 UH Flight #2061 UH Flight #2062 UH Flight #2071 UH Flight #2072 UH Flight #2511 ALH-WSI Flight #2512 ALH-WSI Flight #2521 ALH-WSI Flight #2522 ALH-WSI Flight #2571 ALH-WSI Flight #2572 ALH-WSI Flight

Corps of Signals

References

External links

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