Abingdonboy
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Comparisons to France where you seem to have more elite (and ridicuously well equipped) units than I can count, are always going to shame Indian forces for the forseeable future.Not that i want to criticize India,but more could be done to provide high standards equipments to the special forces or counter terrorism units.
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Having said that, I think the Indian SFs are relatively well equipped (obviously not to NATO standards):
Note all of the above pics are from live operations and perhaps one of the most important factors is their combat expereince and that they are amongst the best trained SFs in the world (and despite what our freinds on PDF want to beleive, are easily the best trained SFs in S.Asia-if not all of Asia)and certainly have some of the most expereinced operators you will find anywhere.
In the first pic what do you think is laying on the ground in front of those SF operators? These guys are the 72 virgin dating service
Ask any Western SOF operator who has interacted with Indian SOFs and they will tell you that Indian SOF is the real deal and have some pretty epic real world deployments. Clearly their equipment is at least a decade behind what SOFs in the West have (if not more) but they are honed operators.
What India should do at least is to provide body armors to the soldiers that are in dangerous areas. (Kashmir?)
How many lives could have been saved in Kashmir if they were equipped with better protection ?
The body armour CT/COIN troops Indian units have in Kashmir has relatively good ballistic protection but the penalty is weight- they are nowhere near as light as comparable protection armour found in the West.
What is truly crazy is that one of the world's premier body armour manufactuerers is Indian- MKU- it exports body armour to military and police units in Germany, Turkey, the US etc etc:
Alas, it is not all doom and gloom, the situation is improving:
Tata & MKU selected for bulletproof jackets requirement
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