Nuclear neighbors and a two‑front threat: Why India needs a rocket force

By Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retired), an Indian Air Force veteran fighter test pilot and is the former Director-General of the Center for Air Power Studies in New Delhi.

Learning lessons from conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East as well as India’s Operation Sindoor, which resulted in a five-day military conflict with Pakistan in May 2025, the Indian Army has proposed establishing its own Integrated Rocket Force (IRF).

India’s powerful neighbor China has had such a force, called the PLA Rocket Force (PLARF), for a long time, and Pakistan has taken steps to introduce something similar after the Operation Sindoor setback.

Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi announced that the military was looking to establish a combined rocket and missile defense force during the Army Day media briefing early this month, stressing that it was the “need of the hour.”

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