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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    ID MG type and unit?
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    HMG Id'd as KPV 14.5 mm thanks to @Bornubus
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    First one is a Browning. What is the second one? Does AGS have a penetrative effect like HMG? ..........
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    OFB does make 12.7mm NSV for armoured corps. Perhaps prevelance of MAG MMGs precludes need for a heavier type?
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    Once Brig. Ray C was describing an LoC skirmish he was part of. Presumably this was early 90s. IA employed HMG to attack a paki bunker/sangar which literally fell apart due to the impact from HMG barrage. ---------------- The brownings in service were probably stripped from tanks that we...
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Indigenous-AK-47-may-spit-fire-again-soon/articleshow/32623979.cms Gypsy to become a strike vehicle (Mar 2014) The Ordnance Factory Tiruchirapalli (OFT) has received a request from the army to fix anti-aircraft guns on Gypsy jeeps. The OFT is...
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    Superb analysis. Thanks We laymen miss these details and hence fail to understand how aggressive our forces are structured. It is true for our air force and navy as well. Air force invested heavily in strike aircraft because we will hit enemy on their airspace. This was true in '65 when our...
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    I have observed that pak army and IA have developed slightly different TOEs for infantry battalions. We do not have have fixed RCLs (Spg-9) nor HMGs at battalion level. On other hand PA soldiers are equipped with RPG-7 as well. They also don't have equiv of marksmen rifle like SVD and galatz...
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    Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) in Indian Army

    Any good pictures of HMGs in Indian Army? Mostly I find only LMGs and MMGs... Pak Army in comparison seems to have equipped all Infantry battalions with HMGs. Example; rare pic of Browning 50 cal in IA:
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