INDIA PAKISTAN: THE MILITARY BALANCE SHEET INDIA

Population: 5,57,000,000 Voluntary Military Service Total armed forces: 980,000. Estimated G.N.P. 1970: US $49,000 million. Defence Budget 1971-72: 12,420 mil¬lion rupee ($1656 million) (7.5 rupee=$l)
Army:    860,000
(cc)    armoured division
(dd)    independent    armoured
Brigades
13 infantry Division 10 mountain Division
1.0    independent Infantry Brigades
2 parachute brigades About 20    AA artillery
Units
Tanks:    200    Centurian
MK5|2, 250    Sherman, 450
T-54 and T-55, 300 Vijay¬anta Medium-150PT-76, 100 Amx-13, Light-CT 62, MK 2|4.
Artillery:    about 3000

pieces, mostly 25 Pounders but including    about 250
100-MM and 140 130-MM. Guns : SS-11, Entac ATGW
Navy: 40,000
1    16000 ton Aircraft carrier
4 submarines    (Ex-Soviet
P. Class)
2    cruisers
3    destroyers
PAKISTAN Population: 1,26,300,000 two years selective military service. Total armed forces r
3.92.0.    Estimated GNP 1970: U.S. $38,400 million. Defence Budget 1971-72: 3,400 million rupees ($•
714.0.    000)    (4.76 rupee=$l)
Army:    365,000 (including
25,0    Azad Kashmir troops)
2    armoured Division, 1 in¬dependent armoured bri¬gades, 12 infantry division (2 more being raised)
1    Air defence brigade. Tanks: 100 M-47, 100 T-54, 225-T59 ; 100M-48 Medium: 200    M-24,    75
M-41, 20 PT-76 Light: 300 M-113.
Artillery : about 900 pieces 25, Pounders, 105 MM. 155 MM howitzers: 200 130-MM. Cobra ATGW Helicopters : 20 H-13
Navy :10,000
4    Submarines
1    light cruiser (training ship)
2    destroyers
3    destroyer escorters
9 destroyer escorts (in¬cluding 5 Ex-Soviet Petya •class)
(ee)    General purpose frigate '5 anti-submarine frigates
1.1    anti-aircraft frigates -4 coastal mine sweepers
5    landing ship
6    landing crafts
10 patrol boats (4 less than 100 tons)
9 seaward defence boats (6 less than 100 tons).
The Naval airforce includ¬ing 35 Sea-Hawks attack aircraft, 12 Alize maritime patrolers, 2 Sea King and 10 Alouette III helicopters, 10 Sea Hawks, 4 Alizes and "2 Alouettes can be carried on the aircraft carrier at any one time.
Airforce : 80,000 ; 615 com¬bat aircraft
7    light bomber 'squadrons (Canberra B(l)
3.92.1.    fighter bomber squadrons <SU-7)
"2 fighter bomber squadron (Mystre-IV)
714.1.    Interceptor squadrons
<Mig 21)  
714.2.    interceptor squadrons (Gnat)
25,1    reconnaissance squadron (Canberra PR-57).
3    Maritime reconnais¬sance squadron (L-1049 super ' constellation (A combat squadron—8 to 25
aircraft)
Transport:    include about
4    fast frigates
8    patrol boats 8 coastal mine sweepers
25,2    small patrol boats (less than 100 tons)
(ff)    UH-19 air-sea rescue helicopters.
Airforce  17000 ; 285 com¬bat aircraft
2    light bomber squadron (11=28)
3    light bomber squadrons (B-57B)
4    fighter bomber squadrons (Mirage III E)
8    fighter bomber and inter¬ceptor squadrons (F-86)
1.2    Interceptor    squadrons
(MIG-19)
1    Interceptor    squadron
(6F-104A)
1 Reconnaissance squadron (4 RT-33A) and 2 RB-57). (A combat squadron gene- rally=16 aircraft)
Transport:    include    8C-
130B and 1F-27 Helicopters:
55 C-47, 60 C-119, 20 11-14, 30 AN-12, 25 other, 12 HS-748, and 15 Cariban Helicopters : include about 80 Ml-4, 150 Allouette III, 10 Bell-47 and a few Ml-8 About 50 SA-2, SAM Com¬plexes, Paramilitary forces: about 1,00,000 in Border Security Forces.
40 Sioux, Huskie and MI-8'.
Paramilitary force : 2,80,000 ^
(gg)    frontier corps,
1.3    Militia, a new force is being raised: The- East Pakistan Civil Armed Force.
SOURCE : The Military Balance 1971-72. Published by the- International Institute of Strategic Studies, London.