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Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 2: Anti Tank, Air Defence & Army Aviation units and weapons

This section covers some of the components (can’t remember the right word for it at the moment) of Pakistani army like regiments, armour and anti-tank units. There is surprisingly little information about even basic information like infantry regiments of Pakistani army and a lot of data is missing.   Anti Tank  Pakistani Army utilises dedicated vehicle mounted anti-tank infantry battalions and…

A month in Kinnaur and Spiti – Part 1

This post is a travelogue of a solo month long trip to Kinnaur and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh. It started with NW getting really excited about going to the mountains for some reason. I didn’t take it seriously at first because if you go by his grand plans, you’d have seen the whole world. But somehow he was serious this time and roped in G & A from Shimla too. They were as surprised as me and…

Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 1: Structure of Pakistani Army

“Most countries have an army, but Pakistan’s army has a country”  is a popular saying which to be fair, is also somewhat true for many other unstable countries in Africa and the Middle-east. What makes Pakistan unique is how it’s armed forces have successfully controlled all aspects of the statecraft and internal politics for so long even during times a civilian government has been in power.…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 3: Ground Forces

Following is the list of PLA ground forces divided among five different Theater Commands. Some of these TCs command a few independent brigades, divisions and even regiments in addition to regular Combined Arms Brigades. The data is collected from multiple sources which will be presented in the last post of this series. In addition to regular PLA Army units, there are a few Border Defence…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 4: Rocket Forces

Formerly the 2nd Artillery Corps, PLA Rocket Force is now considered a separate service branch in itself with 90,000 to 1,20,000 personnel. It seems like TCs in their respective areas may command some of the resources of certain units belonging to PLARF. Its HQ is located at the Qinghe Compound in Beijing and is commanded directly by CMC. This force is divided in seven bases spread across…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 5: Air Force

PLA AIR FORCE ORBAT & STRUCTURE In December 2011, PLAAF started creation of Air Brigade structure by upgrading 14 existing Air Regiment (AR) HQs and abolished 4 existing Air Division HQs. All the brigades were assigned to one of four Bases New Command Structure for fighter and ground attack aircraft is as following: PLAAF HQ MRAF HQ Base Air Brigade Flight Group Flight Squadron On the…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 6: Navy

China has invested a lot of resources and efforts on scaling up its navy in terms of quality and quantity both. In 2012, Hu Jintao expressed his desire to make China a global maritime power capable of force projection anywhere in the world. His successor, Xi Jinping has repeated the same message multiple times. CPC wants a navy which is not only capable of defending its own waters, but capable of…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 4: Air Force

In December 2011, PLAAF started creation of Air Brigade structure by upgrading 14 existing Air Regiment (AR) HQs and abolished 4 existing Air Division HQs. All the brigades were assigned to one of four Bases NOTE: This article is a work under progress and will be updated shortly. New Command Structure for fighter and ground attack aircraft is as following: PLAAF HQ  MRAF HQ    Base      Air…

Arduino Weather Station to measure temperature, pressure and humidity

This is a quick project which uses Arduino and two sensors DHT11 and BMP180 to display humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure to on a small LCD screen. I first proofed the setup and code on Arduino Uno and then tried to shift it to a cheap Arduino Nano clone for final setup. But after facing some reliability issues with the buggy clone, switched back to Uno. COMPONENTS DHT11: It…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 4: Rocket Forces

PLA ROCKET FORCEFormerly the 2nd Artillery Corps, PLA Rocket Force is now considered a separate service branch in itself with 90,000 to 1,20,000 personnel. It seems like the TC in their respective areas may command some of the resources of certain units belonging to PLARF. Its HQ is located at the Qinghe Compound in Beijing.This force is divided in seven bases spread across multiple regions. Unit…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 3: Ground Forces ORBAT

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Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 2: Composition Of Ground Forces

PLA has changed it’s command structure from Group Army, Division, Regiment to one comprising of  Group Army, Brigades and Battalions. Each of five Theater Commands has 2-3 Group Armies (total of 13) under its control which in turn have 4-6 CABs in combat and 4-7 brigades and independent battalions in supporting roles. Some of TCs like Western TC has a few independent divisions and Border Defence…

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT: Part 1 -Reorganisation of Chinese Military

In 2017, 18 Group Armies (GA, similar to Corps in other militaries) were reorganised into 13 GAs. Air Force, Navy, Rocket forces are being included in these new GAs under new designations. Previously 7 Military Regions(MR) have been converted into five Theater Commands (TC) Northern, Southern, Central, Eastern and Western.  Space, Cyber and Electronic warfare has been consolidated under the…

Order of Battle of Chinese Armed Forces

I started researching about ORBAT (Order of Battle) of India, China and Pakistan in earnest after I started writing a military thriller Kaalkut. My aim at first was just to get a somewhat detailed idea of the forces which could be used to write a realistic scenario, but it turned in to a detailed project by itself. Main problem with searching anything about China is unreliability of data as most…

Chinese Armed Forces Order of Battle (ORBAT)

CHINESE ARMY (People’s Liberation Army) ORBAT NOTE: This is still a rough draft. Details are being added. Active service personnel: 12.5 lakh. (1.25 million) Reserves: 4-6 lakh (400,000-600,000) In 2017, 18 Group Armies (GA, similar to Corps in other militaries) were reorganised into 13 GAs. Air Force, Navy, Rocket forces are being included in these new GAs under new designations.  Each old…

Pakistani Armed Forces Order of Battle (ORBAT)

Information about Order of Battle (ORBAT) of armed forces are generally hard to come by and keeps on changing for a number of reasons. Following information is gathered from a few books and comparatively reliable sources on internet. I’ll try to update it whenever possible. First section is for Pakistan’s Army. ORBAT of Pakistani Air Force and Navy will be added gradually by editing this…

Kaalkut. Chapter 26 The defensive structures around the airstrip had been bombed using precision guided munitions by Jaguars minutes before the paradrop. The soldiers could see the fire and smoke rising from rubbles of a few checkposts

30 May 2020 00:05 Hours IST Somewhere in Rajasthan Brigadier Ashok Jasrotia from AFSOD was briefing the special operations team.  “The good news is that a Pakistani F-16 shot down a American MQ-9 Reaper UAV which was flown in from Kandhar for reconnaissance. The better part is that Americans had informed Pakistanis beforehand and they still went ahead and destroyed the drone using American…