Arey bhai Rangers and USSF also come under SOCOM, all the Vajra Prahaar exercises we conduct are with SOCOM. That doesn't automatically mean we evaluated GPNVG-18s. The vast majority of SOCOM doesn't have -18s, only the JSOC Tier-1 units which are a very small component of SOCOM do. And we rarely if ever conduct any joint exercises with them.
And calculating prices of package deals is not as simple as calculating off-the-shelf price of equipment and multiplying by given number. For a deal like this is likely to be millions worth of support equipment, spares, etc which are not mentioned.
For example we all know IA's SIG 716 deal costed approx 700 crores or $97 million. And we all know that SIG's winning bid for L-1 had pegged price per rifle at $990.
72,400 x 990 = $71 million. So what did we buy with remaining $26 million ?? We bought all kinds of support equipment, such as spare parts, extra magazines, iron sights, cleaning & maintenance kits, slings, boresighting equipment, training lessons etc. etc. You won't find the cost of such things mentioned anywhere but they are significant.
And in the SF deal in question we are talking about 3-4 types of guns in different calibres, and stuff like NVGs & parachute kit which comes with its own support kit, its a far more fragmented deal. So before you jump off counting the sums, think of all this.
Yes, Surefire seems like. There are models that are designed for MGs as well.