India plans rocket-missile force with eye on Pak. What it can learn from Iran

Key Highlights

• It's the age of non-contact warfare, and India is now looking at raising a "rocket-cum-missile" force, a long-pending demand, amid twin threats from Pakistan and China at its borders.
• With both countries having a dedicated rocket-missile force, the Army Chief asserted such a unit was India's "need of the hour".
• For it, India needs not look further than Iran, which arguably has the world's largest and most potent missile force. advertisementGeneral Upendra Dwivedi, speaking on Army Day, said the evolving regional security situation warranted a specialised military unit that would have long-range rockets and missiles under one command.
• "We are looking towards a rocket-missile force because Pakistan has established a rocket force, and China has also created such a force.
• It is the need of the hour," he said.