Indian Special Forces

[ManhattanProject]

This?
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Even their PR is shit.

 

[Kumaoni]

Even their PR is shit.

State in 2023 lol

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

 

[FalconSlayers]

Why have they revealed their names on the patches?

 

[mupper2]

Incompetence?

I don't mean the dudes themselves uniform regs come from the desk gods.

 

[Corvus Splendens]

How do they pingpong from this kinda gear

to this

In the same regular forces

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

How do they pingpong from this kinda gear

to this
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In the same regular forces

That was our premier Para brigade with old VZ.

 

[rkhanna]

How do they pingpong from this kinda gear

Its the 50th Para Brigade thats why - The Army has re-oriented itself to make the Paras their premier fighting arm. You can see it in the Kit and Role upgradation of the Regular Para Btn as well

 

[rkhanna]

Colonel Hunny Bakshi

 

[Love Charger]

Its the 50th Para Brigade thats why - The Army has re-oriented itself to make the Paras their premier fighting arm. You can see it in the Kit and Role upgradation of the Regular Para Btn as well

Hain?
What will be da total strength then?
How many lakh paras we need sir

 

[rkhanna]

Hain?
What will be da total strength then?
How many lakh paras we need sir

Cant answer any of those

But the 50th Para Brigade is a Bridage formation consisting of
3X Para Battalions on rotation
1x Para Field Art Regiment on Rotation
60th Para Field Hospital
1x Signals Unit
1x Ordanance Unit
1x Sappers
1x AD Battery
President Bodyguard as Pathfinder Unit
1 - 2x Para SF unit

Primary offensive units are rotated from their parent regiments.

Being a Brigade - IMO the Brigade size will not change unless there is a fundamental change in Army Orbat

 

[rkhanna]

Colonel Hunny Bakshi

IMO - this was the closest we came to building a Tier I capability -

 

[Love Charger]

Cant answer any of those

But the 50th Para Brigade is a Bridage formation consisting of
3X Para Battalions on rotation
1x Para Field Art Regiment on Rotation
60th Para Field Hospital
1x Signals Unit
1x Ordanance Unit
1x Sappers
1x AD Battery
President Bodyguard as Pathfinder Unit
1 - 2x Para SF unit

Primary offensive units are rotated from their parent regiments.

Being a Brigade - IMO the Brigade size will not change unless there is a fundamental change in Army Orbat

Well it's good as long as indian army continues to modernizemaxx.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Its the 50th Para Brigade thats why - The Army has re-oriented itself to make the Paras their premier fighting arm. You can see it in the Kit and Role upgradation of the Regular Para Btn as well

I am not very impressed with the gear to be honest.

 

[rkhanna]

I am not very impressed with the gear to be honest.

Nothing to be impressed. More or less its from the early 2000's - While the rest of the Army is still in the 70s/80s.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Nothing to be impressed. More or less its from the early 2000's - While the rest of the Army is still in the 70s/80s.

This is the brigade that is supposed to be landing behind enemy lines carrying a weapon with no accessories from 1950s.

No uniformity nothing.

If we were poor i would be ok but this is just bad planning.

 

[Inderjeet Singh]

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[rkhanna]

Colonel Hunny Bakshi

Second time i am listening to this - (long drive today).

Some Key Takeaways

1. He continues to maintain OPSEC
2. The very name of TSD was chosen for OPSEC
3. TSD had a national Strategic Mandate
4. Unit Headed by col answered only to DG-MI and COAS
5. Recruited Cols and Lt Cols - why? - because this as not a Job for Children irrespective of how brave and fit they are (been one of my main rants here with regards to Para SF recruitment.
6. Recruited people who had no ambition/Ability to climb ranks but had the spark to keep operating
6. Army ego did them in before the politics
7. Does not go into ops for OPSEC but mentions that level of damage they did to the opfor - Valley, NE, China etc while they were operationa.

 

[Waanar]

Second time i am listening to this - (long drive today).

Some Key Takeaways

1. He continues to maintain OPSEC
2. The very name of TSD was chosen for OPSEC
3. TSD had a national Strategic Mandate
4. Unit Headed by col answered only to DG-MI and COAS
5. Recruited Cols and Lt Cols - why? - because this as not a Job for Children irrespective of how brave and fit they are (been one of my main rants here with regards to Para SF recruitment.
6. Recruited people who had no ambition/Ability to climb ranks but had the spark to keep operating
6. Army ego did them in before the politics
7. Does not go into ops for OPSEC but mentions that level of damage they did to the opfor - Valley, NE, China etc while they were operationa.

Ego and interpersonal relations with the big Army seems to be the dealbreaker for our elites.
There's some substance to the fact that since SF is so small and the officers aren't usually commanding as large of a formation as their counterparts in infantry or something like armored corps, they can't jump ranks as fast but goddamn, there must be a way to work around it.

TSD is legendary for it's capability and it's full of people whose careers were on a dead end, never to rise in rank. What does that tell you? Is the regular Army a meritocracy all the way to the top or are politics the norm after a certain rank?

Again, no organization is immune to petty politics and the tu tu mai mai but this egotistical mindset is doing some real long term damage here. Here, the very own military (not just politicians) did a drastic damage to their own instrument and for what?
None of the TSD guys were guilty of planning a damn coup.

 

[ALBY]

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