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Sir but this is same with other weapons too. BTW it will be used in limited amount (I hope so). I am not willing to come in the way of this bomb
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I am not able to find the right word for this controversey (sad hilarious... I dunno what to say)
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Army begins training of regular troops to deal with terror
New Delhi, June 28: Preparing to deal with Mumbai attacks-like terror siege, Army has started training its units deployed at various places considered as potential terrorist targets.
"We realised that our units deployed in the peace locations should also be trained in urban warfare which is different from what we face in Jammu and Kashmir and the north-eastern states.
"We must have troops who are well trained and equipped to carry out hostage rescue operations in situations such as the Mumbai crisis," Army sources said.
The Army has assigned its Special Force (SF) units based across the country to train the personnel from regular infantry units for the purpose.
"Our SF troops have had a long history of dealing with extreme situations in the insurgency-affected areas of J&K and the North-East. Therefore, they have been assigned to train and prepare troops from regular infantry units for these tasks," they said.
Most of the personnel undergoing training with the SF units are deployed in cities having sizable population and attract both foreign and domestic tourists in large numbers.
"Army units based in cities like Goa, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Agra, Goa, Chandigarh, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Jamnagar and various other places spread across the country are being trained to deal with hostage rescue operations as terrorists are most likely expected to strike at such places," the sources said.
These infantry units will also be equipped with modern electronic gadgets and weapons, mostly used by the SF and quick reaction teams to tackle terrorists. These weapons are normally not available to them.
New courses have been designed by the SF units to train the infantry troops.
"Officers and men from the chosen units have started going to the SF units, which have designed special courses for them. It will help these troops increase their mental and physical endurance and skills to tackle such crises," the sources said.
At the moment, Army has six SF units which are based in locations such as Udhampur and Jodhpur.
"Officers and men from the infantry units will go back to their battalions and teach their own men the skills learned from SF units," they said.
The decision to set up these specialised teams within the infantry units was taken after an assessment of the lessons learned during the 26/11 operations.
Army begins training of regular troops to deal with terror
New Delhi, June 28: Preparing to deal with Mumbai attacks-like terror siege, Army has started training its units deployed at various places considered as potential terrorist targets.
"We realised that our units deployed in the peace locations should also be trained in urban warfare which is different from what we face in Jammu and Kashmir and the north-eastern states.
"We must have troops who are well trained and equipped to carry out hostage rescue operations in situations such as the Mumbai crisis," Army sources said.
The Army has assigned its Special Force (SF) units based across the country to train the personnel from regular infantry units for the purpose.
"Our SF troops have had a long history of dealing with extreme situations in the insurgency-affected areas of J&K and the North-East. Therefore, they have been assigned to train and prepare troops from regular infantry units for these tasks," they said.
Most of the personnel undergoing training with the SF units are deployed in cities having sizable population and attract both foreign and domestic tourists in large numbers.
"Army units based in cities like Goa, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Agra, Goa, Chandigarh, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Jamnagar and various other places spread across the country are being trained to deal with hostage rescue operations as terrorists are most likely expected to strike at such places," the sources said.
These infantry units will also be equipped with modern electronic gadgets and weapons, mostly used by the SF and quick reaction teams to tackle terrorists. These weapons are normally not available to them.
New courses have been designed by the SF units to train the infantry troops.
"Officers and men from the chosen units have started going to the SF units, which have designed special courses for them. It will help these troops increase their mental and physical endurance and skills to tackle such crises," the sources said.
At the moment, Army has six SF units which are based in locations such as Udhampur and Jodhpur.
"Officers and men from the infantry units will go back to their battalions and teach their own men the skills learned from SF units," they said.
The decision to set up these specialised teams within the infantry units was taken after an assessment of the lessons learned during the 26/11 operations.
Army begins training of regular troops to deal with terror
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it is better to have special police teams (SWAT) type to take on terrorist with proper equitment and trainning then use of Army.
Indian Army should be used as last resort for terrorist.
Paramilitry can be trainned for the same purpose.
If the Army is used for terrorist then it will loose focus on fighting with regular military.
Indian Army should be used as last resort for terrorist.
Paramilitry can be trainned for the same purpose.
If the Army is used for terrorist then it will loose focus on fighting with regular military.
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Indian army's biggest nightmare is climate change
28 Jun 2009 TERI PR: Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Padma Vibhushan, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), gave this warning while delivering the keynote address at the convocation ceremony at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow. “Climate change poses new threats to India.” “Melting snows in the north open up passages for terrorists, just as melting glaciers affect water supply in the subcontinent’s northern part, sharpening possibility of conflict with our neighbours. Changing rainfall patterns affect rain fed agriculture, worsening poverty which can be exploited by others.”
8ak - Indian Defence News: Indian army's biggest nightmare is climate change
28 Jun 2009 TERI PR: Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Padma Vibhushan, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), gave this warning while delivering the keynote address at the convocation ceremony at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow. “Climate change poses new threats to India.” “Melting snows in the north open up passages for terrorists, just as melting glaciers affect water supply in the subcontinent’s northern part, sharpening possibility of conflict with our neighbours. Changing rainfall patterns affect rain fed agriculture, worsening poverty which can be exploited by others.”
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Indian army's biggest nightmare is climate change
28 Jun 2009 TERI PR: Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Padma Vibhushan, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), gave this warning while delivering the keynote address at the convocation ceremony at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow. “Climate change poses new threats to India.” “Melting snows in the north open up passages for terrorists, just as melting glaciers affect water supply in the subcontinent’s northern part, sharpening possibility of conflict with our neighbours. Changing rainfall patterns affect rain fed agriculture, worsening poverty which can be exploited by others.”
8ak - Indian Defence News: Indian army's biggest nightmare is climate change
28 Jun 2009 TERI PR: Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Padma Vibhushan, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), gave this warning while delivering the keynote address at the convocation ceremony at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow. “Climate change poses new threats to India.” “Melting snows in the north open up passages for terrorists, just as melting glaciers affect water supply in the subcontinent’s northern part, sharpening possibility of conflict with our neighbours. Changing rainfall patterns affect rain fed agriculture, worsening poverty which can be exploited by others.”
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CLAWS' seminar on Soldier Modernisation and key suggestions
28 Jun 2009 CLAWS: The Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) organised a seminar on “Modernisation of Infantry in India” on May 25, 2009 at the CLAWS campus. Col Faujdar highlighted the following key areas:
• A road map for modernisation needs to be drawn up with an effective time line that must be adhered to.
• An internal defense force should be raised to free infantry from the task of dealing with the non-conventional threats during peace time.
• An infantry battalion or individual should preferably be rotated between two different or three near congruous terrain profiles only.
• A project to reduce weight of the present medium machine gun, automatic grenade launcher, and anti-material rifle by at least 6-8 kgs should be undertaken.
• Replacement of the existing Hand Grenade No 36 should be expedited with the introduction of a variety of grenades to meet all requirements.
• 81 mm Mortars should be made lighter and possibly based on tracked carriers and their range should be not less than 7,000 metres.
• A man-portable unmanned aerial vehicle troop (four-six aerial vehicles) should be authorised to the intelligence and surveillance platoon of infantry battalion. This would enhance the infantry battalion’s area of influence.
• The ‘bayonet strength’ of a rifle section should be preserved. In a single section, there should at least be 6-7 persons available for launching an assault on the enemy.
• Custom-built obstacle crossing expedients should be made available to infantry for negotiating water obstacles as well as mine fields.
• Infantry company ‘F’ echelon should be based on two 1.5 ton capacity low silhouette vehicles.
• Ghatak platoons should be trained for helicopter-borne operations and provided with light strike vehicles.
8ak - Indian Defence News: CLAWS' seminar on Soldier Modernisation and key suggestions
28 Jun 2009 CLAWS: The Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) organised a seminar on “Modernisation of Infantry in India” on May 25, 2009 at the CLAWS campus. Col Faujdar highlighted the following key areas:
• A road map for modernisation needs to be drawn up with an effective time line that must be adhered to.
• An internal defense force should be raised to free infantry from the task of dealing with the non-conventional threats during peace time.
• An infantry battalion or individual should preferably be rotated between two different or three near congruous terrain profiles only.
• A project to reduce weight of the present medium machine gun, automatic grenade launcher, and anti-material rifle by at least 6-8 kgs should be undertaken.
• Replacement of the existing Hand Grenade No 36 should be expedited with the introduction of a variety of grenades to meet all requirements.
• 81 mm Mortars should be made lighter and possibly based on tracked carriers and their range should be not less than 7,000 metres.
• A man-portable unmanned aerial vehicle troop (four-six aerial vehicles) should be authorised to the intelligence and surveillance platoon of infantry battalion. This would enhance the infantry battalion’s area of influence.
• The ‘bayonet strength’ of a rifle section should be preserved. In a single section, there should at least be 6-7 persons available for launching an assault on the enemy.
• Custom-built obstacle crossing expedients should be made available to infantry for negotiating water obstacles as well as mine fields.
• Infantry company ‘F’ echelon should be based on two 1.5 ton capacity low silhouette vehicles.
• Ghatak platoons should be trained for helicopter-borne operations and provided with light strike vehicles.
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A new RFI has been released due to this controversy
http://www.defenceforum.in/forum/la...-rfi-army-get-new-155-mm-42-calibre-guns.html
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As per latest from CLAWS , it will be in that direction
• An internal defense force should be raised to free infantry from the task of dealing with the non-conventional threats during peace time
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Firing from across LoC kills soldier
Jammu (IANS): A soldier was killed while foiling an infiltration bid by a group of militants from Pakistan in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, army officials said on Monday.
Mohinder Singh of 8 Kumaon fell to a bullet fired from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday night, while another soldier had a narrow escape.
Army officials told IANS that a group of militants tried to sneak into the Indian side on Sunday evening and may have been given covering fire by the Pakistani Army.
The Indian Army was assessing the situation and preparing the details to be communicated to the Pakistani side.
"In case the firing was from the Pakistani army then it can be termed as ceasefire violation," said an official.
If that be the case then it would be the third case of ceasefire violation by Pakistan in this sector this year.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony had last year stated that Pakistan had violated the ceasefire over 30 times since it was agreed between India and Pakistan in November 2003.
The Hindu News Update Service
Jammu (IANS): A soldier was killed while foiling an infiltration bid by a group of militants from Pakistan in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, army officials said on Monday.
Mohinder Singh of 8 Kumaon fell to a bullet fired from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday night, while another soldier had a narrow escape.
Army officials told IANS that a group of militants tried to sneak into the Indian side on Sunday evening and may have been given covering fire by the Pakistani Army.
The Indian Army was assessing the situation and preparing the details to be communicated to the Pakistani side.
"In case the firing was from the Pakistani army then it can be termed as ceasefire violation," said an official.
If that be the case then it would be the third case of ceasefire violation by Pakistan in this sector this year.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony had last year stated that Pakistan had violated the ceasefire over 30 times since it was agreed between India and Pakistan in November 2003.
The Hindu News Update Service
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10 years after Kargil
A tough call for jawans
But heated barracks, best of winter wear, phone and TV facility makes it a tad easy for them
Ajay Banerjee writes from Drass (on the LOC)
It is the last week of June. Most parts of the country are reeling under an unprecedented heat wave. But, the Drass-Kargil sector is gripped by icy winds. Wearing thick jackets, we brave up to a height of 15,000 feet to get a closer look into the lives of Army men who guard the Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
This is one of the most treacherous sections of the Himalayas where winter temperature hovers around -40 degree Celsius and the nights in the middle of summer are below freezing point. It is the same area where the two bitter neighbours had fought a battle exactly 10 years ago. After the Kargil conflict, the Indian Army has set up several posts on top of snow-clad Himalayan ridges.
At these heights, small groups of jawans keep a permanent watch on the LOC. The stillness is broken only by the gurgling noise that comes from the deep valley below as a fast-flowing tributary of the Indus flows into Pakistan. The post (name withheld due to security restrictions) that we descended on is “easy” to approach. There are several posts at heights between 17,000 and 19,000 feet that take hours to reach. Jawans stay there for six months during winter.
Here, though the facilities provided are basic for survival at such a height, each paisa of the tax-payers’ money spent on these sentinels seems worth its weight in gold. Brigadier IS Ghuman, commander of the 56 Mountain Brigade, says: “The boys have to get the very best and that is absolutely necessary”.
The Indian army provides each jawan with some of the best winter clothing available in the world, snow boots and anti-glare goggles. Pucca barracks have been built and are heated using a kerosene “sikri” that has an exhaust system. The toilets are also heated using the same technique. Dehydrated food is available at all posts during winter. The power supply through generators is regulated to conserve fuel.
The best part for the jawans is that they can talk to their wives, children and parents on a daily basis. In one of biggest human resource exercise, the Army has provided each of the posts with STD phone facility that is routed through the Army exchange. At places where the BSNL network is not available, satellite phones have been provided. All calls are subsided. The jawans pay only 25 per cent of the actual cost. Huge back-ups have been built.
Each post has a TV and DTH connection. The leader of the group regulates television viewing. A young captain, whom we met at one of the peaks, smilingly discloses that the power cut is regulated in such a manner that cricket matches involving India are not missed. News channels are eagerly watched as newspapers reach a week after they have been published.
A doctor is attached with each unit, while each post has a jawan who has been trained in nursing. There is also the facility to land a chopper to evacuate anyone who is not feeling well. Chopper-borne evacuations have been carried out even in peak winter and with minimal daylight, says a senior officer posted here.
To keep the morale of the jawans high, senior commanders keep visiting them, at times trudging on foot for three or four hours.
The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
A tough call for jawans
But heated barracks, best of winter wear, phone and TV facility makes it a tad easy for them
Ajay Banerjee writes from Drass (on the LOC)
It is the last week of June. Most parts of the country are reeling under an unprecedented heat wave. But, the Drass-Kargil sector is gripped by icy winds. Wearing thick jackets, we brave up to a height of 15,000 feet to get a closer look into the lives of Army men who guard the Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
This is one of the most treacherous sections of the Himalayas where winter temperature hovers around -40 degree Celsius and the nights in the middle of summer are below freezing point. It is the same area where the two bitter neighbours had fought a battle exactly 10 years ago. After the Kargil conflict, the Indian Army has set up several posts on top of snow-clad Himalayan ridges.
At these heights, small groups of jawans keep a permanent watch on the LOC. The stillness is broken only by the gurgling noise that comes from the deep valley below as a fast-flowing tributary of the Indus flows into Pakistan. The post (name withheld due to security restrictions) that we descended on is “easy” to approach. There are several posts at heights between 17,000 and 19,000 feet that take hours to reach. Jawans stay there for six months during winter.
Here, though the facilities provided are basic for survival at such a height, each paisa of the tax-payers’ money spent on these sentinels seems worth its weight in gold. Brigadier IS Ghuman, commander of the 56 Mountain Brigade, says: “The boys have to get the very best and that is absolutely necessary”.
The Indian army provides each jawan with some of the best winter clothing available in the world, snow boots and anti-glare goggles. Pucca barracks have been built and are heated using a kerosene “sikri” that has an exhaust system. The toilets are also heated using the same technique. Dehydrated food is available at all posts during winter. The power supply through generators is regulated to conserve fuel.
The best part for the jawans is that they can talk to their wives, children and parents on a daily basis. In one of biggest human resource exercise, the Army has provided each of the posts with STD phone facility that is routed through the Army exchange. At places where the BSNL network is not available, satellite phones have been provided. All calls are subsided. The jawans pay only 25 per cent of the actual cost. Huge back-ups have been built.
Each post has a TV and DTH connection. The leader of the group regulates television viewing. A young captain, whom we met at one of the peaks, smilingly discloses that the power cut is regulated in such a manner that cricket matches involving India are not missed. News channels are eagerly watched as newspapers reach a week after they have been published.
A doctor is attached with each unit, while each post has a jawan who has been trained in nursing. There is also the facility to land a chopper to evacuate anyone who is not feeling well. Chopper-borne evacuations have been carried out even in peak winter and with minimal daylight, says a senior officer posted here.
To keep the morale of the jawans high, senior commanders keep visiting them, at times trudging on foot for three or four hours.
The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
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Seven months after 26/11, Mumbai NSG hub ready
NEW DELHI: The first of the four NSG regional hubs, set up in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, will be made operational at Marol in
Mumbai on Tuesday. The other three -- Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad -- will get operationalised a day later on July 1.
These hubs will help the anti-terror/anti-hijacking commandos of the NSG to to quickly and effectively respond to terror attacks in these cities and the nearby regions.
The hub in Chennai (at Nedunkundram) is the largest in terms of area located on 85 acres of land as compared to 23 acres at Marol in Mumbai, 22 acres at Trimulghery in Hyderabad and 20 acres at Badu in Kolkata.
These hubs will be made operational in the presence of Union home minister P Chidambaram who pushed the plan hard with the states. Making these hubs operational as quickly as possible is one of the agendas of the home ministry's 100-day programme under the new government.
Hyderabad and Kolkata will eventually be turned into bigger command units as the home ministry recently decided to set up `regional centres'. Each `regional centre' will have more commandos and a training base.
Meanwhile, the feasibility of setting up more regional hubs in the country will be looked into in August when the state chief ministers will assemble here for a security review meeting.
"All the CMs have agreed that the meeting be held after the budget session in August when they are expected to come up with their plan of action as far as their security
preparedness is concerned. The home ministry will review the progress on what the states might have done on the matters suggested during a similar meeting in January," said an official.
The Centre had decided to set up the NSG hubs, comprising a minimum 200-250 well trained anti-terror/anti-hijacking Army commandos each, in December last year in the wake of 26/11 which had witnessed delayed launch of counter-operation as the NSG personnel were based only at Manesar in Haryana. Besides, it took them a few hours to reach Mumbai as a suitable aircraft was not available in Delhi.
The regional hubs will be equipped with all facilities for launching counter operations in the respective regions. Besides the Army commandos, the NSG will also depute trained paramilitary forces commandos for backup support.
Besides these four metropolitan cities, Bangalore -- which missed getting the NSG hub in the post 26/11 security restructuring exercises -- has also got an exclusive unit after the home ministry decided to bring the IT city under the security cover of Army in January. The Bangalore unit became operational in April.
Delhi and the northern region will be covered by the force's units located near the airport here as also the NSG's main centre which is located at Manesar near Gurgaon in Haryana.
Seven months after 26/11, Mumbai NSG hub ready - India - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: The first of the four NSG regional hubs, set up in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, will be made operational at Marol in
Mumbai on Tuesday. The other three -- Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad -- will get operationalised a day later on July 1.
These hubs will help the anti-terror/anti-hijacking commandos of the NSG to to quickly and effectively respond to terror attacks in these cities and the nearby regions.
The hub in Chennai (at Nedunkundram) is the largest in terms of area located on 85 acres of land as compared to 23 acres at Marol in Mumbai, 22 acres at Trimulghery in Hyderabad and 20 acres at Badu in Kolkata.
These hubs will be made operational in the presence of Union home minister P Chidambaram who pushed the plan hard with the states. Making these hubs operational as quickly as possible is one of the agendas of the home ministry's 100-day programme under the new government.
Hyderabad and Kolkata will eventually be turned into bigger command units as the home ministry recently decided to set up `regional centres'. Each `regional centre' will have more commandos and a training base.
Meanwhile, the feasibility of setting up more regional hubs in the country will be looked into in August when the state chief ministers will assemble here for a security review meeting.
"All the CMs have agreed that the meeting be held after the budget session in August when they are expected to come up with their plan of action as far as their security
preparedness is concerned. The home ministry will review the progress on what the states might have done on the matters suggested during a similar meeting in January," said an official.
The Centre had decided to set up the NSG hubs, comprising a minimum 200-250 well trained anti-terror/anti-hijacking Army commandos each, in December last year in the wake of 26/11 which had witnessed delayed launch of counter-operation as the NSG personnel were based only at Manesar in Haryana. Besides, it took them a few hours to reach Mumbai as a suitable aircraft was not available in Delhi.
The regional hubs will be equipped with all facilities for launching counter operations in the respective regions. Besides the Army commandos, the NSG will also depute trained paramilitary forces commandos for backup support.
Besides these four metropolitan cities, Bangalore -- which missed getting the NSG hub in the post 26/11 security restructuring exercises -- has also got an exclusive unit after the home ministry decided to bring the IT city under the security cover of Army in January. The Bangalore unit became operational in April.
Delhi and the northern region will be covered by the force's units located near the airport here as also the NSG's main centre which is located at Manesar near Gurgaon in Haryana.
Seven months after 26/11, Mumbai NSG hub ready - India - The Times of India
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1st regional anti-terror base complete
June 29, 2009
A National Security Guard (NSG) commando
stands in his temporary base during the
inauguration of NSG's Regional Hub
in Mumbai on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
MUMBAI - INDIA'S first regional unit for specialist anti-terror troops has opened in Mumbai, fulfilling a government pledge after criticisms of the military's slow response to last year's attacks on the city.
The hub for some 250 National Security Guard (NSG) commandos, opened by Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday evening, is the first of four new centres across the country.
The others in Kolkata, eastern India, and the southern cities of Chennai and Hyderabad open on Wednesday.
Security officials say the new base - temporarily housed near Mumbai's international airport until a permanent facility nearby is operational next year - will reduce incident response times drastically.
But security analysts said India still has a long way to go to improve its counter-terrorism capabilities, despite an increase in defence spending since last year.
Mr Ajai Sahni, editor of the South Asian Intelligence Review and executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, described the regional NSG units as a 'token' response.
'Any terrorist attack realises its potential within the first few minutes,' he told AFP.
'If you have a unit in north Mumbai and south Mumbai is attacked, in the 45 minutes to two hours it takes to get there, the terrorists have already done their worst.' Better training and equipment for India's overstretched, under-funded local police to help them contain the situation as the first line of defence would be a more viable option, he added.
'We're still committed to the 'Rambo' model. We think a handful of strong, well-trained men can take on the world. That might happen in films but it's nonsense in reality,' he added.
Nicknamed the 'Black Cats', the NSG is modelled on the British Army's elite Special Air Service (SAS) and the GSG-9, the specialist operations unit of the German police. -- AFP
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Asia/Story/STIStory_397632.html
June 29, 2009
A National Security Guard (NSG) commando
stands in his temporary base during the
inauguration of NSG's Regional Hub
in Mumbai on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
MUMBAI - INDIA'S first regional unit for specialist anti-terror troops has opened in Mumbai, fulfilling a government pledge after criticisms of the military's slow response to last year's attacks on the city.
The hub for some 250 National Security Guard (NSG) commandos, opened by Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday evening, is the first of four new centres across the country.
The others in Kolkata, eastern India, and the southern cities of Chennai and Hyderabad open on Wednesday.
Security officials say the new base - temporarily housed near Mumbai's international airport until a permanent facility nearby is operational next year - will reduce incident response times drastically.
But security analysts said India still has a long way to go to improve its counter-terrorism capabilities, despite an increase in defence spending since last year.
Mr Ajai Sahni, editor of the South Asian Intelligence Review and executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, described the regional NSG units as a 'token' response.
'Any terrorist attack realises its potential within the first few minutes,' he told AFP.
'If you have a unit in north Mumbai and south Mumbai is attacked, in the 45 minutes to two hours it takes to get there, the terrorists have already done their worst.' Better training and equipment for India's overstretched, under-funded local police to help them contain the situation as the first line of defence would be a more viable option, he added.
'We're still committed to the 'Rambo' model. We think a handful of strong, well-trained men can take on the world. That might happen in films but it's nonsense in reality,' he added.
Nicknamed the 'Black Cats', the NSG is modelled on the British Army's elite Special Air Service (SAS) and the GSG-9, the specialist operations unit of the German police. -- AFP
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Eye on China, is India adding muscle on East?
2 Jul 2009, 0325 hrs IST, Rajat Pandit, TNN
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NEW DELHI: India may publicly be very cautious about not ruffling China's prickly feathers but is slowly taking some steps to counter the stark
military asymmetry with its much larger neighbour. In the latest such move, the Army now wants a dedicated artillery division for the eastern front.
After getting the Cabinet Committee on Security's approval to raise two new infantry mountain divisions (with around 15,000 combat soldiers each) and an artillery brigade last year, the Army is now pushing the case for the new artillery division, say defence ministry sources.
The proposed artillery division, under the Kolkata-based Eastern Army Command, will have three brigades -- two of 155mm howitzers and one of the Russian `Smerch' and indigenous `Pinaka' multiple-launch rocket systems.
As earlier reported by TOI, IAF has already begun to base its most potent Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets at Tezpur, with other airbases in the northeast like Chabua next on the roadmap, apart from building new helipads in Arunachal Pradesh.
Even as the Navy tries to counter China's strategic moves in the Indian Ocean Region, India is progressively reactivating old ALGs (advanced landing grounds) like Daulat Beg Oldi, Fukche, Chushul and Nyama in Ladakh after decades of them lying largely unused.
Then, of course, India is also set to conduct another test of the 3,500-km range Agni-III ballistic missile this month, even as work is in progress for the maiden test of the 5,000-km Agni-V missile by mid-2010.
"Though China is way ahead in military capabilities, all we want is a credible active deterrence posture against it. But again, the progress of our various measures to counter Chinese moves, like the huge build-up of military infrastructure in Tibet and south China, remains quite sluggish," said a top official.
Only 10 of the 73 roads earmarked for construction along the Sino-Indian border, for instance, have been built till now. This when the 2.5-million People's Liberation Army can move two divisions to the border within a month.
The importance of the proposed artillery division can be gauged from the fact that India has only two such formations till now. Both are primarily tasked for the western front with Pakistan, one under the Chandimandir-based Western Command and the other under Pune-based Southern Command.
All Army divisions and corps, including those in the eastern sector, have their own integral artillery brigades. But a dedicated artillery division will give the Eastern Army commander a `potent' force with long-range, high-volume firepower, having as it will guns and rocket systems, missiles and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).
The Army's Rs 15,000 crore artillery modernisation programme continues to be hampered by a series of kickback scandals. The project to procure 140 ultra-light howitzers for Rs 2,900 crore, for instance, needs to get going since it will ensure artillery can be deployed in forward, inaccessible areas at short notice with the help of helicopters.
Eye on China, is India adding muscle on East? - India - The Times of India
2 Jul 2009, 0325 hrs IST, Rajat Pandit, TNN
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NEW DELHI: India may publicly be very cautious about not ruffling China's prickly feathers but is slowly taking some steps to counter the stark
military asymmetry with its much larger neighbour. In the latest such move, the Army now wants a dedicated artillery division for the eastern front.
After getting the Cabinet Committee on Security's approval to raise two new infantry mountain divisions (with around 15,000 combat soldiers each) and an artillery brigade last year, the Army is now pushing the case for the new artillery division, say defence ministry sources.
The proposed artillery division, under the Kolkata-based Eastern Army Command, will have three brigades -- two of 155mm howitzers and one of the Russian `Smerch' and indigenous `Pinaka' multiple-launch rocket systems.
As earlier reported by TOI, IAF has already begun to base its most potent Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets at Tezpur, with other airbases in the northeast like Chabua next on the roadmap, apart from building new helipads in Arunachal Pradesh.
Even as the Navy tries to counter China's strategic moves in the Indian Ocean Region, India is progressively reactivating old ALGs (advanced landing grounds) like Daulat Beg Oldi, Fukche, Chushul and Nyama in Ladakh after decades of them lying largely unused.
Then, of course, India is also set to conduct another test of the 3,500-km range Agni-III ballistic missile this month, even as work is in progress for the maiden test of the 5,000-km Agni-V missile by mid-2010.
"Though China is way ahead in military capabilities, all we want is a credible active deterrence posture against it. But again, the progress of our various measures to counter Chinese moves, like the huge build-up of military infrastructure in Tibet and south China, remains quite sluggish," said a top official.
Only 10 of the 73 roads earmarked for construction along the Sino-Indian border, for instance, have been built till now. This when the 2.5-million People's Liberation Army can move two divisions to the border within a month.
The importance of the proposed artillery division can be gauged from the fact that India has only two such formations till now. Both are primarily tasked for the western front with Pakistan, one under the Chandimandir-based Western Command and the other under Pune-based Southern Command.
All Army divisions and corps, including those in the eastern sector, have their own integral artillery brigades. But a dedicated artillery division will give the Eastern Army commander a `potent' force with long-range, high-volume firepower, having as it will guns and rocket systems, missiles and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).
The Army's Rs 15,000 crore artillery modernisation programme continues to be hampered by a series of kickback scandals. The project to procure 140 ultra-light howitzers for Rs 2,900 crore, for instance, needs to get going since it will ensure artillery can be deployed in forward, inaccessible areas at short notice with the help of helicopters.
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‘Height’ of terror fight
GAJINDER SINGH
The bullet-proof cabin mounted atop the mini-truck
Chandigarh, July 1: Punjab police have put together a vehicle-mounted bullet-proof cabin that can be raised to a height of up to three stories to take on terrorists perched in vantage positions.
The cabin, made of special steel with openings big enough to allow clear vision, can hoist four to five armed personnel to a height of 20ft. It can also be used to lift ammunition up to 15kg in uneven terrain.
Two machine guns are fitted to the cabin which can be moved up and down with the support of four devices called hydraulic stabilisers.
The cabin, mounted atop a mini-truck, is expected to be of big help in anti-terror operations in residential areas and hostage crises, officials said. It could also work well in situations like the one during last year’s Mumbai attack, where commandos fought gunmen holed up at the top of buildings, they added.
Hoisted platforms are used by firefighters and civic agencies maintaining street lights, for instance, but they aren’t bullet-proof and can’t carry as much load.
“The vehicle can be used for deterrence and domination during terror attacks as it provides security forces with a clear view from a higher level,” state police chief K.K. Attri said after Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal unveiled the vehicle at his residence yesterday morning.
Attri, who retired yesterday, said the vehicle had been designed by the police’s special wing, which has engineers among its ranks, in consultation with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Gopalji Mishra, who heads the special wing and was closely involved with the design, said: “We wanted a bullet-proof police post that could have a clear view of operations. There are four hydraulic stabilisers as the cabin is heavy.”
The special wing’s innovations don’t end there. It has recently introduced a robot, again designed in-house, that can detect bombs 100 metres away. This is an improvement on the US-made robots the force already has on two counts.
“The US robots come at Rs 12 lakh each. The cost of the robots we designed is Rs 25,000. The foreign ones can detect bombs only within 50 metres and can lift 5kg of explosives. But our own robots can carry 12kg,” Mishra said
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GAJINDER SINGH
The bullet-proof cabin mounted atop the mini-truck
Chandigarh, July 1: Punjab police have put together a vehicle-mounted bullet-proof cabin that can be raised to a height of up to three stories to take on terrorists perched in vantage positions.
The cabin, made of special steel with openings big enough to allow clear vision, can hoist four to five armed personnel to a height of 20ft. It can also be used to lift ammunition up to 15kg in uneven terrain.
Two machine guns are fitted to the cabin which can be moved up and down with the support of four devices called hydraulic stabilisers.
The cabin, mounted atop a mini-truck, is expected to be of big help in anti-terror operations in residential areas and hostage crises, officials said. It could also work well in situations like the one during last year’s Mumbai attack, where commandos fought gunmen holed up at the top of buildings, they added.
Hoisted platforms are used by firefighters and civic agencies maintaining street lights, for instance, but they aren’t bullet-proof and can’t carry as much load.
“The vehicle can be used for deterrence and domination during terror attacks as it provides security forces with a clear view from a higher level,” state police chief K.K. Attri said after Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal unveiled the vehicle at his residence yesterday morning.
Attri, who retired yesterday, said the vehicle had been designed by the police’s special wing, which has engineers among its ranks, in consultation with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Gopalji Mishra, who heads the special wing and was closely involved with the design, said: “We wanted a bullet-proof police post that could have a clear view of operations. There are four hydraulic stabilisers as the cabin is heavy.”
The special wing’s innovations don’t end there. It has recently introduced a robot, again designed in-house, that can detect bombs 100 metres away. This is an improvement on the US-made robots the force already has on two counts.
“The US robots come at Rs 12 lakh each. The cost of the robots we designed is Rs 25,000. The foreign ones can detect bombs only within 50 metres and can lift 5kg of explosives. But our own robots can carry 12kg,” Mishra said
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I don't understand how many times this homegrown UAV are required to Handover to Indian Army?
Two more held in army convoy attack case
Two more held in army convoy attack case
Staff Reporter
Coimbatore: Coimbatore Rural police on Friday arrested two more persons Sadasivam and Karthikeyan in connection with the attack on army convoy on May 2 at Neelambur.
The total number of arrests in the case has risen to 46, according to a release.
The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Coimbatore News : Two more held in army convoy attack case
Two more held in army convoy attack case
Staff Reporter
Coimbatore: Coimbatore Rural police on Friday arrested two more persons Sadasivam and Karthikeyan in connection with the attack on army convoy on May 2 at Neelambur.
The total number of arrests in the case has risen to 46, according to a release.
The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Coimbatore News : Two more held in army convoy attack case
Army convoy attack: One more detained under NSA
Coimbatore, July 05: One more person arrested in connection with the attack on an Army convoy some two months ago on the outskirts of the city, was detained under the National Security Act (NSA) on Sunday.
An order to this effect was served on Veluchamy, an MDMK worker in Arasur, lodged in Central Prison here this evening, police said.
Three of the 42 persons arrested have already been detained under NSA. Ten were released on bail a couple of days ago.
Police have registered cases against 200 persons,belonging to various pro-LTTE parties and organisations, for their alleged involvement in the attack on an Army Convoy on May 2.
The military convoy, comprising 80 trucks with army personnel and training materials, was returning to Madukarai regiment near here from Hyderabad when it was attacked by a group of nearly 200 people, belonging to different pro-LTTE outfits at Nilambur Bypass that day.
The outfits suspected that the convoy had weapons and arms to be supplied to Sri Lanka to crush innocent Tamils.
Army convoy attack: One more detained under NSA
Coimbatore, July 05: One more person arrested in connection with the attack on an Army convoy some two months ago on the outskirts of the city, was detained under the National Security Act (NSA) on Sunday.
An order to this effect was served on Veluchamy, an MDMK worker in Arasur, lodged in Central Prison here this evening, police said.
Three of the 42 persons arrested have already been detained under NSA. Ten were released on bail a couple of days ago.
Police have registered cases against 200 persons,belonging to various pro-LTTE parties and organisations, for their alleged involvement in the attack on an Army Convoy on May 2.
The military convoy, comprising 80 trucks with army personnel and training materials, was returning to Madukarai regiment near here from Hyderabad when it was attacked by a group of nearly 200 people, belonging to different pro-LTTE outfits at Nilambur Bypass that day.
The outfits suspected that the convoy had weapons and arms to be supplied to Sri Lanka to crush innocent Tamils.
Army convoy attack: One more detained under NSA
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