Indian Special Forces

[kaboom]

Are para SF broken into fixed individual teams or do they just pick operators from the pool for ops??

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Hitler is proud to see that his Waffen SS has better helmet than 2023 Indian Infantry

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Are para SF broken into fixed individual teams or do they just pick operators from the pool for ops??

Chosen as per op requirement

 

[stat231]

Hitler is proud to see that his Waffen SS has better helmet than 2023 Indian Infantry

Only one suitable word comes to my mind regarding the top leadership. DISGUSTING

 

[Jedi Operator]

Ye padho zara, everything here is almost accurate, but his interpretation of SG being an elite counter terrorist unit cause it's made of Tibetans is so wrong. SG is made of Indian guys who are on deputation. By the way the book is called "The illustrated guide to the world's top counter-terrorist forces" by Samuel M Katz and it is a must read. He is perhaps the only guy whose travelled the world and actually done good journalism with regards to CT forces. He has some unseen pictures of 1990s Delta and SEAL Team, few of which I saw on JSOC Archive also. Overall this is one of my two favorite encyclopedias on SF

 

[kaboom]

Is this SG confirmed??

 

[jai jaganath]

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Is this SG confirmed??

Pic is damn old I remember few handles saying it as sg but one thing is for sure comtacs is edited

 

[Kumaoni]

>Indian army has no proper PCs (Jai Ho)
>Indian army using vanilla BPJs
>Indian army with same gear (barring rifles) as it did during Kargil (jai ho)
>Indian army buying jetpacks
>Indian army putting women commandos in battle, soon to take lgbtq ghatak platoon
>Indian army Still has ZERO capabilities of sniping

Bloody PLA type army who is raising I need to know

 

[Kumaoni]

Ye padho zara, everything here is almost accurate, but his interpretation of SG being an elite counter terrorist unit cause it's made of Tibetans is so wrong. SG is made of Indian guys who are on deputation. By the way the book is called "The illustrated guide to the world's top counter-terrorist forces" by Samuel M Katz and it is a must read. He is perhaps the only guy whose travelled the world and actually done good journalism with regards to CT forces. He has some unseen pictures of 1990s Delta and SEAL Team, few of which I saw on JSOC Archive also. Overall this is one of my two favorite encyclopedias on SF

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jokers, India is a loser nation.

 

[Aspirant847]

cross border

 

[Kumaoni]

cross border

Nope, he clearly is making things up.

Only my supreme lord SEAL commandos are right

 

[Kumaoni]

Briilkiant operation done by MARCOS and a 2 para squad along with the RR back in 2002
11 terrorists BBQed
Zero casualties (even wounded) on our side
Jai hind

 

[Haldilal]

Ya'll Nibbiars The Para Special Force and Rastriya Rifle in a Joint mission Sent a Pakistan Sponsored Terrorist to HeII in Rajouri Sector yesterday.

 

[Tactical Doge]

Ya'll Nibbiars The Para Special Force and Rastriya Rifle in a Joint mission Sent a Pakistan Sponsored Terrorist to HeII in Rajouri Sector yesterday.

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So many buttons tho

 

[Automatic Kalashnikov]

21 Para SF CO ?

22 Assam rifles CO, ex 1 para sf

 

[Kumaoni]

Prahar - jogs something in my memory. But imo there is no formal Ghatak like formation in the Indian Army before the current form. The concept did not exist in the orbat.

Depends on the unit. Some units would have so called “commando platoons” which was like a super infantry platoon, guess that could be considered the precursor to “Ghatak” platoon.

 

[Kumaoni]

Ghataks are infantry men given specialised training to conduct certain specialist tasks at a battalion level. All IA infantry battalions has a Ghatak platoon (20-30 men) and they operate at the battalion commander’s discretion. So they are more tactical assets than anything, in Western parlance they’d be considered special operations capable infantry sort of like USMC Force Recon (not MARSOC).

SF are meant to be strategic assets used to achieve strategic aims, aside from their CI/CT missions their directions should come from senior levels (HQ level and above)

What would you consider hostage rescues? NSG has some fine hostage rescue ops.

but it seems like paras do therole of ghataks and nowadays basic infantry

 

[airborneCommando]

What would you consider hostage rescues? NSG has some fine hostage rescue ops.

but it seems like paras do therole of ghataks and nowadays basic infantry

Almost every SF battalion that has set foot in kashmir have an instance of a few hostage rescue operations being done. As you would've guessed 4 para and 9 para have conducted a hell lot of HR operations in Kashmir exclusively (not counting rest of the J&K in it).....in one such operation, 4 para had to be called in since the RR guys who went for rescueing the hostages were held hostage themselves.

 

[kaboom]

Just woke up to this , today's gonna be great

 

[Kumaoni]

Almost every SF battalion that has set foot in kashmir have an instance of a few hostage rescue operations being done. As you would've guessed 4 para and 9 para have conducted a hell lot of HR operations in Kashmir exclusively (not counting rest of the J&K in it).....in one such operation, 4 para had to be called in since the RR guys who went for rescueing the hostages were held hostage themselves.

Infantry guys also have a decent HR record, but the only HR op i know of an infantry man was not in urban setting but in a first