Indian Special Forces

[Abingdonboy]

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

are these the standard issued kevlar vests?

 

[Abingdonboy]

are these the standard issued kevlar vests?

The black one (far left) now is, yes.

+ the bulku green/camo BPJs (on the right) are being phased out.

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[Abingdonboy]

Guys pretty interesting posters from AI 2013 relating specifically to Indian SOFs:

My favorite (relates to MARCOs):

Very few units on earth can be air-dropped into the water with their gear and with their boats. This is an incredibly useful capbility to have- MARCOs can be airdropped from a IL-76,C-130J or C-17 with full combat gear into waters off the coast of the enemy, scale onto their boats that too have been dropped with them and then motor onto the mission.

This is serious business.
@COLDHEARTED AVIATOR @Koovie @Sergi @Water Car Engineer check it out!

 

[Water Car Engineer]

This guys layout is pretty much where they're going I'm guessing.

 

[Abingdonboy]

This guys layout is pretty where they're going I'm guessing.

Yeah, I'd say so.

+love those gloves!

Maybe he and a few others were "guinea pigs" testing this layout over a week-long event where he will be wearing it for most of the day.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Boy oh boy will the Indian SFs look crazy in 5-10 years.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Boy oh boy will the Indian SFs look crazy in 5-10 years.

You know it! No one will be comparing them to Western SOF wrt looks then!

 

[Koovie]

This guys layout is pretty much where they're going I'm guessing.

Damns, those Garuds are becoming the secret attraction of Aero India 2013

Guys pretty interesting posters from AI 2013 relating specifically to Indian SOFs:

My favorite (relates to MARCOs):

Very few units on earth can be air-dropped into the water with their gear and with their boats. This is an incredibly useful capbility to have- MARCOs can be airdropped from a IL-76,C-130J or C-17 with full combat gear into waters off the coast of the enemy, scale onto their boats that too have been dropped with them and then motor onto the mission.

This is serious business.
@COLDHEARTED AVIATOR @Koovie @Sergi @Water Car Engineer check it out!

Wow, awesome find mate!

With our ever expanding world class transport fleet, our modernization program of our SOFs and the future unified SOF command the GOI will soon have a truly strategic and mighty operational force

 

[Agent_47]

 

[Koovie]

wrong thread????

 

[kurup]

Navy’s Marcos get ‘duck drops’


If Ajmal Kasab’s cousins come calling again or pirates strike over choppy seas, India’s marine commandos (Marcos) will take just over an hour to launch a counter-offensive. Leading the charge will be two Marcos squadrons, deployed in Mumbai and Port Blair, equipped with “duck drop” systems fitted on Ilyushin-76 aircraft.

This is a “force-multiplier”, said a scientist from the Aerial Delivery Rese-arch and Develop-ment Establishment, the Agra-based outfit that designed the system. Once paradropped from aircraft, it allows marines to assemble inflatable motorised boats in 10 minutes and race towards ships in distress.

“Once commandos are near the target, they can dismantle the boats and travel underwater to mount a surprise attack. The marines can be deployed in an hour, unlike earlier when it took up to 48 hours to reach targets as they had to travel on ships. Each system (two boats) can take 32 commandos, weapons and fuel,” the scientist told this newspaper.

The scientist said the “duck drop” system was inducted recently by the Navy after several trials in the Indian Ocean. “It took us two years to develop the system; it’s a cost-effective way to rush commandos for rescue operations. It costs less than a tenth of a similar system that US marines use onboard C-130J Super Hercules. It is also impossible to acquire these as the US has banned their sale,” he added.

The “duck drop” system will be on display for the first time at Aero India 2013.


Navy

 

[Koovie]

Navy’s Marcos get ‘duck drops’


If Ajmal Kasab’s cousins come calling again or pirates strike over choppy seas, India’s marine commandos (Marcos) will take just over an hour to launch a counter-offensive. Leading the charge will be two Marcos squadrons, deployed in Mumbai and Port Blair, equipped with “duck drop” systems fitted on Ilyushin-76 aircraft.

This is a “force-multiplier”, said a scientist from the Aerial Delivery Rese-arch and Develop-ment Establishment, the Agra-based outfit that designed the system. Once paradropped from aircraft, it allows marines to assemble inflatable motorised boats in 10 minutes and race towards ships in distress.

“Once commandos are near the target, they can dismantle the boats and travel underwater to mount a surprise attack. The marines can be deployed in an hour, unlike earlier when it took up to 48 hours to reach targets as they had to travel on ships. Each system (two boats) can take 32 commandos, weapons and fuel,” the scientist told this newspaper.

The scientist said the “duck drop” system was inducted recently by the Navy after several trials in the Indian Ocean. “It took us two years to develop the system; it’s a cost-effective way to rush commandos for rescue operations. It costs less than a tenth of a similar system that US marines use onboard C-130J Super Hercules. It is also impossible to acquire these as the US has banned their sale,” he added.

The “duck drop” system will be on display for the first time at Aero India 2013.


Navy

Nice news!

Being able to parachute into the ocean out of a IL 76, C130J or C17 with boats is truly a force multiplier !

 

[Sergi]

Guys pretty interesting posters from AI 2013 relating specifically to Indian SOFs:

My favorite (relates to MARCOs):

Very few units on earth can be air-dropped into the water with their gear and with their boats. This is an incredibly useful capbility to have- MARCOs can be airdropped from a IL-76,C-130J or C-17 with full combat gear into waters off the coast of the enemy, scale onto their boats that too have been dropped with them and then motor onto the mission.

This is serious business.
@COLDHEARTED AVIATOR @Koovie @Sergi @Water Car Engineer check it out!

Nice find. Duck drop is new to me. Never heard of it before

BTW "rumour mill" is speculating some interesting turn of events in MOD for our SOFs. Specially the transport. C-17 or Chinook or both do you have any idea about it ???