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Brief Facts >> India
Defence
Military Branches
Army, Navy (including naval air arm), Air Force, Strategic Nuclear Command (SNC), Coast Guard, various security or paramilitary forces (including Border Security Force, Assam Rifles, Rashtriya Rifles, National Security Guards, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Special Frontier Force, Ladakh Scouts, Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Railway Protection Force, Defense Security Corps, and Indian Reserve Battalions)
Military expenditure
(as % of GDP) 		2.5 (2003)
Public expenditure
on health (as % of GDP) 		0.9 (2003)
Military Expenditures - in dollars $12,079.7 million (2003)
Number Of Ordnance Factories 89 (2003)
Total Strength Of Armed Forces 1,303,000 (2003)
Indian Ballistic Missile Arsenal Prithvi-1, Prithvi-2, Dhanush/Prithvi-3, Agni-1 variant, Agni-1, Agni-2, Agni-3, Surya, Sagarika(SLBM) (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP 2.5% (2003)
Source: www.worldbank.org/www.bbcworld.com/www.naco.nic.in

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