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The Army’s recently raised modern warfare force, the Bhairav Battalions, volition enactment successful the Army Day Parade for the archetypal clip successful Jaipur connected January 15.
A elder Army serviceman confirmed that 2 Bhairav Battalions volition enactment successful this year’s parade—Southern Command’s 2 Bhairav Battalion, known arsenic the ‘Desert Falcons’, and South Western Command’s 4 Bhairav Battalion. The warfare outcry of the 2 Bhairav Battalion is Raja Ramchandra ki Jai.
On Sunday (January 11, 2026), the Army shared a video connected its authoritative X handle, showcasing the Bhairav battalions. Highlighting the Army’s absorption connected unmanned warfare, the serviceman said, “We are creating a excavation of implicit 1 lakh drone operatives crossed the force. These operatives are susceptible of handling drones and employing them successful existent operations to people bases and formations wrong the force territory.”
Raised by Army office by drafting lessons from planetary conflicts arsenic good arsenic India’s ain operational experience, including the caller Operation Sindoor, the Bhairav Battalions are designed arsenic high-speed, violative units susceptible of executing Special Forces’ tasks astatine aggregate levels, depending connected operational requirements, the serviceman added.
So far, the Army has raised 15 Bhairav Battalions, deployed crossed formations on borders, the officers said, adding plans are underway to rise astir 25 specified battalions successful full successful the adjacent future.
Bridging the gap
The battalions are intended to span the spread betwixt Para Special Forces and regular infantry units, enabling them to behaviour peculiar operations from tactical to operational depth.
“Modern warfare is changing astatine a precise accelerated pace. Today’s conflicts are hybrid successful nature, and forces indispensable beryllium afloat equipped with modern exertion to conscionable these challenges,” the serviceman added. “The Bhairav Battalions are portion of unit restructuring and person been raised successful enactment with caller technologies, evolving thought processes, and emerging operational requirements,” the serviceman said.
As portion of a broader transformation, the Army has besides created Rudra Brigades—integrated all-arms formations combining infantry, mechanised units, tanks, artillery, peculiar forces, unmanned aerial systems, on with dedicated logistics and combat-support elements.
Additionally, the Artillery, Mechanised Infantry and Armoured Corps are being equipped with precocious capabilities, including drones and modern battlefield systems, to heighten operational effectiveness successful aboriginal conflicts.
