Then why are they not wearing decent gear, dude patka is heavier than others and provide no support from the top and is not as comfortable, there is nothing to underestimate, if it is good then why we are the only ones using it, patka is simply bad for so-called best sf unit of India, SPG getting good gear makes a lot of sense but if the pic is really of sg and no other unit in whole Kashmir has ACOG and viper helmet then my heart is broken, so I will just hope that it's just a para operator who got his hands on one of the few ACOG and viper units have and sg actually has some decent gear.
Bro, it's quite simple- no standardization, no different special forces command like socom leading to sf being provided just a tad bit better weapon than regular infantry forget about most of the accessories, unit level purchases leading to zoo of equipments, lack of discipline enforcement.
Well no one can justify these zoo of different camo, heck even senior commanders can be seen doing such shit. There you have it such stupid thing at higher level, natural that at lower structure things would be even worse. Then again I very much prefer US Army like culture instead of officer culture at higher levels (very much akin to sahib culture)in Indian Army.
I don't get it but some people seriously like to defend these wrong practices by Indian Army, you will be very surprised that army guys can't even make a appropriate QRs for their RFIs, just see a plethora of unrealistic requirement present in various RFIs ultimately leading to scrapping, like did you not see most of the sniper manufacturers don't manufacture ammo and scopes (patka issue can be debated by the percentage of protection it provides compared to some helmets which can protect against ak rounds, local made helmets, Major Anoop helmet for example, well you have to buy them first though).
For anyone defending, please compare with other good forces and their practices which worked. Just saying that we need to do such and such blah blah for our environment and needs doesn't proves anything. Sentences/arguments have to backed by logical and comparable present scenarios/situations.
Indian SF are poorly equipped, doesn't follows western sf training methodology (atleast not even tailored to our needs)., doesn't have some kind of dedicated transport for some units. Guess what, Russian SOF and even chinese SOF have started following them. We are clearly behind the competition. And then calling Chinese SOF which are modernising equipment as well as training as inferior and useless looks like nothing but copium and utter nonsense/illogical to me. Maybe calling other guys down to think that we are better than him rather than seeing the facts.
Keep underestimating your enemy and you are sure to lose. We need to modernise fast both in respect to equipment and training exposure.
Surely we have enough money for atleast SOF, otherwise stop calling them SpeCIAl FoRcEs and just name them some super infantry guys. We just shout commando and suddenly become SOF.
