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This picture speaks volumes about how much incompetent the leader ship is. Shameful.

Yes that's correct. But I have seen security wearing a mix of new and old rigs at cantonments. But your point by and large is more valid.

Helmets. Rigs.

All this is a security threat in itself. People should be held accountable for the decisions made by them that has jeopardized the security of the country.

The point still remains. Until the contract is signed and payments finalized the clearance by CCS will not matter as the funds will have to be surrendered. I won't go into who is to be blamed debate. But the need for funds to be better utilised by army in a timely and planned manner is pretty...

Can you provide the source when the deal was cleared and There is a timeline for surrendering funds even if CCS has cleared the deal but contract is pending. If funds are still not used before FY. The same payment is taken into calculation after the next defense budget outlay is made. There are...

Not sure. I believe the deals cleared by CCS would have been already taken into account.

Well as per this article it could be around 1000 crore. Trying to find the exact amount surrendered by saheb log. https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/armed-forces-spent-64-fy22-funds-on-india-made-equipment/articleshow/89233516.cms

This is the condition of the Army that returns unutilsed funds to finance ministry every year.

I am quite sure that this is not going to be the camo IA is going for.

I don't remember exactly where I read it. I suppose it was in this forum that the guy whose patka is in the pic died due to excessive blood loss due to injury over neck area. I guess both patka and helmets have pros and cons.

Conversations can be done in polite and respectable tone.

Yes, you are right about every army having its own tried and tested methods of fighting which are according to various situations it faces. But still it appears to me more of cost saving rather than being better that PATKA's are used. A small thing like gloves can make huge difference in a...

If PATKA's were that good as being stated why isn't any other army using it or testing something similar? Even army's of third world countries are equipping themselves with Kevlar helmets.IMO the only reason that PATKA has stuck with our forces is, it being cheaper alternative to costly Kevlar...