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abingdonboy

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Is such a loadout with 2 rifles used for LRRPs pic credit- shatrujeet 009View attachment 70472
Absolutely no reason for a professional unit to carry an unmodified spray and pray AK like this with them as a secondary weapon

Considering they are using m4s with holographic sights and no magnification whatsoever having a designated marksmen rifle might make some sense but this?

are they playing at being commandos? A backpack, some tactical gloves and some assault rifles is their ‘ load out’?
 

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Absolutely no reason for a professional unit to carry an unmodified spray and pray AK like this with them as a secondary weapon

Considering they are using m4s with holographic sights and no magnification whatsoever having a designated marksmen rifle might make some sense but this?

are they playing at being commandos? A backpack, some tactical gloves and some assault rifles is their ‘ load out’?
par sf doesnt seem to fix any flashlights on their weapons. Marcos, garuds and NSG have widely adopted weapon lights.
 

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par sf doesnt seem to fix any flashlights on their weapons. Marcos, garuds and NSG have widely adopted weapon lights.
Like I’ve said before, PARA (SF) don’t seem interested in learning how to fight in the real world. They are fighting the same way they did 40+ years ago

There are pics of the SAS in their kill house in the 1970s with huge flashlights attached to their MP5s and respirators on, ever seen PARA (SF) conduct a room intervention with respirators? US SFs learned how to fight in the night in the early 1990s, today a PARA (SF) team is lucky if they equip 2 guys per team with monocular NVGs, they haven’t even got the IR designators that Americans were using in Mogadishu in 1993.

just bizarre really, I know Indian standard time delays things but this is just on another planet. Practically zero innovation in 40-50 years,what other organisation could get away with being this pig headed?
 

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That doesn’t explain anything just another fanciful story.

still think these are NSG then
The info about the Red Flag exercises with USAF is definitely NOT a "fanciful story".
What makes you think so?

The Americans were very, very eager to fly alongside Indian SU-30 MKIs because that would allow them to better the tactics used by their aggressor squadrons and, therefore, increase the training quality & skills of their pilots.

And that's EXACTLY why Indian SU-30s turned off their classified N011M BARS radar.

Read what USAF Lieutenant Colonel Jan ‘Kuts’ Stahl, the deputy commander of the tenant 57th Operations Group at Nellis Air Force Base, says:

“Every once in a while the stars align and a particular asset that we want to know more about becomes available for us to actually touch. For instance, I was lucky enough to have the once in a lifetime opportunity to fly the Su-30MKI when the Indian Air Force came to Red Flag Alaska in 2016. If you want to get smart about how a Flanker operates, that’s about as good as it gets. Obviously, as aggressors, we position ourselves when opportunities like these become available to ensure we’re ready for it and take advantage of it. We take what we can get. Flying the Su-30 was definitely a pinnacle in my career.” - Jan ‘Kuts’ Stahl

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