Given the role the PARA (SF) plays and how elite they are themselves they deserve top-notch equipment themselves. Of course the SG are the top of the top but that doesn't mean they should be the only ones to get such gear. You know better than I bro that it is the PARA (SF) teams that are out on a day to day basis protecting the naiton and hunting jihadis.
It is not as if the money isn't there, to equip all Indian SFs (only the 3 true blue SFs) to NATO standards would cost maybe a few billion spread out over 3-4 years- a cost that is more than justified and would ensure a greater degree of strategic punch for the Indian nation/military as a whole.
Who has been given the job for the last two high profile "surgical mission"? PARA (SF).
I wont disagree but look at how the things are going...
We still have some units who haven't got rid of the 56 and will now be getting M4A1.
There are no Fast helmets.Lets not count 1 or 2 here and there.
GPMGs,Shotguns
They need better bpj and Nvgs
And i am not even getting into tactical computers,solar batteries and all that shit.
But i would agree with what you said and this is what i have been thinking.Why cant the Army say..Ok from this year we will army 100 operators with the best equipment in the world and in 5 years you will have 500 top notch operators ready to be sent anywhere.
The Para SF needs to have around 500 operators who are the best of the best with the best equipments and prepared for the worst.We really don't need 10k SF force.
This is such a mess and i don't know how we will ever get out of it and stop going for the numbers.From whatever knowledge i have i can say that we will never need 10k SF for any operation.We should go for 3-4 SF units with the best equipment like 9th mountains,10th desert ,21 for east and 1st for strategic needs.
Rest all should be converted to Airborne infantry.First give the best equipment to the 4 SF and then the Airborne Infantry.This should be done even if we have to sacrifice 100 Main Battle tanks because i believe 500 operators are more lethal than 100 tanks.
Having said this we should also equip the units on the LOC with basic NVGs so these BAT motherfuckers can be stopped.
Lastly this is endless but what about Ghataks.They have no equipment to be doing Special Ops.They are not fully NVG equipped,AR are not Tavor when i checked the last time,bulky BPJ,shitty helmet and what not.They have to get some good equipment too.