List of equipment of the Indian Army

This is a list of present equipment used by the Indian Army.

Future procurements
The major ongoing weapons programmes of the Indian Army are as follows:

Infantry equipment

 * Carbine - On 23 September 2022, Defence Ministry issued Request for Information for the procuring 5.56×45mm NATO Close Quarter Battle (CQB) Carbines for the Indian Army and Indian Navy. On 29 November 2022, MoD released Request for Proposal for 4,25,213 units of carbine (418,455 for Army and 6,758 for Navy). The order will be split between the two lowest bidders, L1 (2,55,128 units) and L2 (1,70,085 units). The carbine mass must be within the range of 3-3.5 kg and must have a range of more than 200 m and cyclic rate of firing 600 rounds/min. The procurement is under Buy 'Indian' category, that is the guns must have more than 60% indigenous content.  As of June 2024, 15 vendors are competing for the contract and summer trials of the products are underway while winter trials will be conducted later this year.
 * Light machine gun - On 25 August 2023, Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved the Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for the induction of new 7.62×51mm LMGs for the Indian Army.
 * Sniper Rifles - MoD released Request for Proposal in October 2022 to 30 vendors for 4,849 (including 4,549 for Army, 212 for the Air Force and 88 for the Navy) new sniper rifles in .338 Lapua Magnum and 7,841,575 rounds. These rifles will replace older Dragunov SVD.
 * Anti-materiel rifles - 1000 new anti materiel rifles are to be acquired for which global RFI's have been issued by the MOD.
 * Ballistic helmet - The Indian Government has approved procurement of 1,70,000 ballistic helmets.
 * Bullet-resistant vest - The Ministry of Defence has ordered about 186,138 (1.86 Lakh) bulletproof vests on 9 April 2018. These will be manufactured in India by SMPP Pvt Ltd. This is in addition to the 50,000 vests ordered in 2016 under emergency procurement.

Mechanised Forces

 * Futuristic Main Battle Tank (FMBT) – Upgraded version of Arjun Mk 1A. Fourth Generation MBT. It will be a 50 tonne tank powered by an indigenous 1,500 hp or 1,800 hp engine. At the conceptual stage.
 * Abhay IFV – Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV). Upto 1750 in number to replace the older BMP-2 Sarath.
 * Stryker – 530 planned for purchase to equip 10 wheeled standard mechanised infantry battalions.
 * Armoured personnel carrier – RFI under formulation to purchase 105 APCs for wheeled reconnaissance and support battalions of Mechanised Infantry.

Missiles

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 * Prahaar (missile) – With a range of 150 km.
 * Agni P- Also known as Agni Prime. 1000 km–2,000 km range. To replace Agni-I.
 * Agni-IV – Also known as the Agni-II prime in the earlier times, it has an effective range of 4000 km and a cruise altitude of 900 km.
 * Agni-V – 7000 km–8,000 km Successfully tested for the ninth time by DRDO on 22 December, 2022.
 * Agni-VI – 10000 km–12,000 km range with MIRVed warheads. Currently in planning stage.
 * Cruise Missiles
 * Hypersonic cruise missile
 * Nirbhay Missile
 * BrahMos NG
 * Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
 * Nag Anti-tank guided missile – ground and air-launched variant.

Artillery



 * Under the Field Artillery Rationalisation Plan (FARP) of 2010, the army plans to procure 3000 to 4000 units of artillery at the cost of inr 200000000000. This includes purchasing 1580 towed, 814 mounted, 180 self-propelled wheeled, 100 self-propelled tracked, and 145 ultra-light 155 mm/39 calibre guns. The requirement for artillery guns would be met with indigenous development and production.
 * Towed Guns - 114 Dhanush ordered (18 delivered), 307 ATAGS planned, 1,200 155 mm L/52 howitzers planned.
 * Mounted Guns - 200 105 mm L/37 howitzers and 814 155 mm L/52 howitzers planned.
 * Self propelled tracked guns - 100 K-9 Vajra-T delivered, 100 on order; another 100 planned.
 * Ultra light howitzer - 145 M777 guns delivered.

Vehicles

 * Tata Motors offers a full range of 6×6, 8×8, and 12×12 multi-purpose high mobility carriers, designed especially for integrating specialist rocket and missile systems. The Tata 2038 6×6 vehicle platform has, after rigorous field-firing evaluation trials, been qualified by the Indian Army to carry the GRAD BM21 Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) application.
 * Mahindra Axe – Light utility vehicle to be purchased.
 * The army needs 3,000 light support vehicles and 1600 heavy motor vehicles for mounting rockets and radar, and for reconnaissance and transportation, at a cost of Rs 15 billion.

Field firing ranges
This is a list of Indian military's field firing ranges used for testing the weapons, training the troops and wargaming.


 * Mahe Field Firing Range (MFFR), Ladakh.
 * Mahajan Field Firing Range, on NH-62 halfway between Suratgarh & Bikaner, Rajasthan.
 * Hisar Field Firing Range, on MDR-108 between Kanwari &Badya Jattan in Hisar district, Haryana.
 * Pokhran Test Range, Pokran, Rajasthan.