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Airframe is being said to be airworthy (at least by pilots), also pilots escaped unharmed which makes sense, it was not a "crash", but an emergency landing. Ground crew is evaluating whether the hepter can be flown back after repairs or they need to dismantle the airframe to carry it...

How do you propose SFs retrieve a 5-ton heli through a mountainous terrain to the nearest road ?

FYI shooting down of Quadcopter is not confirmed.

However, this picture seems credible.

There is something in this pic which makes me thing it is photoshopped, not real. The distance & depth perception of the C-17 & parachutes are wrong. Someone sold the journalists fake pictures.

I agree with your peacetime argument 👍 Leading forces worldwide, including US & Israel do not wargame extreme scenarios in-person but instead use simulators. I have multiple first-hand accounts of accidents happening because the situation was too risky. A recent example, is the mid-air...

Metrological predictions are pretty hard even with today's advanced technology. Rising hot air during these summer months can create erratic wind patterns almost impossible to predict. The para-jumper could have steered the parachute to avoid the high-tension wire (not too fluent control, but...

Or perhaps, the winds drifted him away? Agra is long been used to train paratroopers, they have dedicated sites for para-jumping. It is not a random countryside. Interesting habit developing among members to immediately grab the throats of armed forces for anything uncomfortable.

Not electrocution. https://www.etvbharat.com/hindi/uttar-pradesh/state/agra/navy-marcos-commando-ankush-sharma-martyred-during-parachute-jumping-in-agra/up20230512140017637637276 The parachute got entangled in high-tension wire. Soldier freed himself from the parachute and jumped to the...

:facepalm: Again ? What is wrong with our equipment ? Everything, everywhere just keeps failing, breaking and craashing.

Again, geolocation is only possible if you have some unique feature in the background that can be uniquely attributed to some particular region. This picture has nothing as such. Do you have a better picture that shows more background ?

This picture has nothing interesting or unique to geolocate. If you can give me a better picture showing the background then I might try. Few Rocks and Dhatura can be anywhere literally, not even in India.

Can someone tell me what this insignia/batch is ? Looks eerily similar to PLAGF insignia,

Donated US Army reserve high-altitude clothing. US Army has an average bigger clothing size than the Indian Army.

Garuds have not been "deployed as door gunners", they are simply "deployed" in choppers for their protection. See the difference ?

Then I have good news for you, there exists a dedicated gunner/door operator for certain aircraft (including Mi-17) which requires that. Also, Garuds are not "assigned" a door-gunner position for any flight, but they are more likely to take control if they are executing a mission through the...

Yeah, so they do cover their faces/identity in hostile areas, or during operations. Long shot. It is rather easy to identify soldiers, especially since armed forces personnel generally roam in uniforms around their home bases...

Why do they need to censor their face/identity in non-hostile areas ?

Don't want to spark an inter-service SF dyck-comparision war, but Army is no one to speak. Seen multiple videos of RRs dumping 100s of kgs of ammunition including scores of grenades, hundreds of rounds of bullets, and multiple Carl-Gustav rounds just to smoke out some 17-year old valley kids...