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India vs Myanmar Military Ranks
The Indian Army has 18 ranks — 11 officer and 7 enlisted — from Sepoy up to Field marshal. Below: all 53 ranks across 3 branches (Army, Navy, Air Force), aligned tier by tier with their Myanmar/ Burma equivalents.
Branches
3
Ranks documented
53
Active personnel
1.5M
Army
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 16 of 18 matched
| 🇮🇳 India · Army | NATO code |
Equivalent in
|
|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
Field marshal
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
General
|
OF-9 General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
Lieutenant general
|
OF-8 Lieutenant General |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
Major general
|
OF-7 Major General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
|
Brigadier
|
OF-6 Brigadier General |
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
|
Colonel
|
OF-5 Colonel |
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Lieutenant colonel
|
OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Major
|
OF-3 Major / Commandant |
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
|
Captain
|
OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
|
Lieutenant
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
| Officer cadet | OF-D Student Officer | – |
| Enlisted ranks | ||
Subedar Major
|
OR-9 Sergeant Major |
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
Subedar
|
OR-8 1st Sergeant |
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
Naib Subedar
|
OR-7 Sergeant 1st Class | – |
Havildar
|
OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
Naik
|
OR-4 Corporal |
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
|
Lance Naik
|
OR-3 Private 1st Class |
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
|
| Sepoy | OR-1 Private | တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
Navy
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 15 of 17 matched
| 🇮🇳 India · Navy | NATO code |
Equivalent in
|
|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
Admiral of the fleet
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Admiral
|
OF-9 General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
Vice Admiral
|
OF-8 Lieutenant General |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
Rear Admiral
|
OF-7 Major General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
|
Commodore
|
OF-6 Brigadier General |
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
|
Captain
|
OF-5 Colonel |
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Commander
|
OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Lieutenant commander
|
OF-3 Major / Commandant |
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
|
Lieutenant
|
OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
|
Sub-lieutenant
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
Midshipman
|
OF-D Student Officer | – |
| Enlisted ranks | ||
Master chief petty officer 1st class
|
OR-9 Sergeant Major |
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
Master chief petty officer 2nd class
|
OR-8 1st Sergeant |
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
Chief petty officer
|
OR-7 Sergeant 1st Class | – |
Petty officer
|
OR-4 Corporal |
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
|
Leading seaman
|
OR-3 Private 1st Class |
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
|
| Ordinary seaman | OR-2 Private | တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
Air Force
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 16 of 18 matched
| 🇮🇳 India · Air Force | NATO code |
Equivalent in
|
|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
Marshal of the Indian Air Force
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Air chief marshal
|
OF-9 General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
Air marshal
|
OF-8 Lieutenant General |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
Air vice marshal
|
OF-7 Major General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
|
Air commodore
|
OF-6 Brigadier General |
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
|
Group captain
|
OF-5 Colonel |
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Wing commander
|
OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
Squadron leader
|
OF-3 Major / Commandant |
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
|
Flight lieutenant
|
OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
|
Flying officer
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
Flight cadet
|
OF-D Student Officer | – |
| Enlisted ranks | ||
Master warrant officer
|
OR-9 Sergeant Major |
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
Warrant officer
|
OR-8 1st Sergeant |
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
Junior warrant officer
|
OR-7 Sergeant 1st Class | – |
Sergeant
|
OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
Corporal
|
OR-4 Corporal |
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
|
Leading aircraftsman
|
OR-2 Private | တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
| Aircraftsman | OR-1 Private | တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
Overview
The Indian armed forces, known as the "Indian Armed Forces" or "Bharatiya Sashatra Sena," are one of the largest and most diverse military forces in the world, comprising several branches:
- Indian Army: The Indian Army is the land-based military branch responsible for ground operations. It includes infantry, armored units, artillery, and support units. The Army plays a crucial role in defending India's borders and ensuring national security.
- Indian Navy: The Indian Navy focuses on maritime defense and security, operating a wide range of vessels, including aircraft carriers, submarines, surface ships, and patrol boats. It is responsible for safeguarding India's maritime interests.
- Indian Air Force: The Indian Air Force is responsible for aerial defense and operations. It operates fighter aircraft, transport planes, helicopters, and has a growing space capability, ensuring air superiority and national defense.
- Indian Coast Guard: While primarily a law enforcement agency, the Indian Coast Guard also serves a military role during times of war or national security needs. It is responsible for maritime law enforcement and search and rescue.
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Insignia image credits
- Skjoldbro — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: Havildar, Naik, Lance Naik, Admiral of the fleet, Commodore, Captain, Commander, Lieutenant commander, Lieutenant, Sub-lieutenant, Master chief petty officer 1st class, Master chief petty officer 2nd class, Chief petty officer, Sergeant, Corporal, Leading aircraftsman
- Swapnil1101 — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: Marshal of the Indian Air Force, Air chief marshal, Air marshal, Air vice marshal, Air commodore, Group captain, Wing commander, Squadron leader, Flight lieutenant, Flying officer, Flight cadet, Master warrant officer, Warrant officer, Junior warrant officer
- Prez001 — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons: Field marshal, General, Lieutenant general, Major general, Brigadier, Colonel, Lieutenant colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Subedar Major, Subedar, Naib Subedar
- Punkhung — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: Admiral, Vice Admiral, Rear Admiral
- Marinaio56 — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: Petty officer, Leading seaman
- Sodacan — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: Midshipman