Their performance impressed their enemies so much that the British East India Company started recruiting Nepali troops into their forces.

In 1946, the Royal Nepali Army troops were led by Commanding General Baber Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana at the Victory Parade in London.

[5] The position of the Supreme Commander of the Nepalese Army is the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

[8] King Rajendra Bikram Shah appointed Bhimsen to the post and praised him for his long service to the nation.

[8] The commander-in-chief title was replaced by Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) from General Singha Pratap Shah in 1979.

Nepali Army units have served with distinction alongside American forces in places such as Haiti, Iraq, and Somalia.

US-Nepali military engagement continues today through the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program, Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC) program, Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), and various conferences and seminars.

The first four army units are the Shreenath, Kali Baksh (Kalibox), Barda Bahadur, and Sabuj companies, founded in August 1762 by King Prithvi Narayan Shah with the Gurung, Magar, Chhetri and Thakuri clans, well before the unification of Nepal.

Now the regular forces also include a significant number of female soldiers holding key appointments and commands.

India is the army's largest supplier of arms and ammunition as well as other logistical equipment, which are often furnished under generous military grants.

[21] Germany, the United States, Belgium, Israel, and South Korea have also either supplied or offered arms to the Nepali Army.

[22] Nepali FALs were later complemented by unlicensed, Indian-manufactured variants of the same weapon, as well its British counterpart, the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle.

[22] Nevertheless, the FAL and its respective variants remain the single most prolific weapon in Nepali army service, with thousands of second-hand examples being supplied by India as late as 2005.