Indian Special Forces

[Unknowncommando]

Take a look at some camos used by PARA SF

(1)Army regular camo (2)Jungle MARPAT

(3)UCP

(4)Desert MARPAT

(5)New Garud standard camo

(6)Old Garud standard camo

(7)THe Black one for night ops

(8)Some US army old std camo pattern

(9)2nd from left the pattern is of SSB-Shasastra Seema Bal
(10)At extreme right some new kind of camo i can see

 

[Unknowncommando]

(11)Standard desert scorpians camo

(12)The old khaki of scorpians

(13)The one which was never seen after yudh abhyas 2012

(14)This is also something new

(15)looks similar to lankan army camo

(16)In addition the old IA standard camo

(17)The jacket of left soldier also looks like us army old std camo
(18)The pant pattern is same as that of some CAPF

(19)The plain white for snow terrain

@Abingdonboy
Thats hell of a lot of camos.

 

[Jamwal's]

View attachment 303395 (11)Standard desert scorpians camo
View attachment 303394 (12)The old khaki of scorpians
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(13)The one which was never seen after yudh abhyas 2012
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(14)This is also something new
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(15)looks similar to lankan army camo

(16)In addition the old IA standard camo

(17)The jacket of left soldier also looks like us army old std camo
(18)The pant pattern is same as that of some CAPF

(19)The plain white for snow terrain

@Abingdonboy
Thats hell of a lot of camos.

There is more kinda pinkish.

 

[Abingdonboy]

@Abingdonboy
Thats hell of a lot of camos.

Indeed it is! It is really rather needless but the SF have a lot of leeway in adopting equipment/uniforms on a need absis and not just as a collective but at an induvidual btn/team level. Furthermore when you have SF operators (from all btns) rotating through JK or the NE and then heading back to their home base they are likely to have accumlated a number of different uniforms depending on who they were operating with and where.

+ one minor point bro, to me 4 and 5 look the same, I don't think 4 is the Desert MARPAT, I haven't actually seen that in PARA (SF) use and 15 could well be a Sri Lankan training with Indian SF.

 

[Unknowncommando]

Indeed it is! It is really rather needless but the SF have a lot of leeway in adopting equipment/uniforms on a need absis and not just as a collective but at an induvidual btn/team level. Furthermore when you have SF operators (from all btns) rotating through JK or the NE and then heading back to their home base they are likely to have accumlated a number of different uniforms depending on who they were operating with and where.

+ one minor point bro, to me 4 and 5 look the same, I don't think 4 is the Desert MARPAT, I haven't actually seen that in PARA (SF) use and 15 could well be a Sri Lankan training with Indian SF.

It is 100% Desert MARPAT bro just the shades are little darker due to low light.I have another one pic for that.

THIS is pic of PARA SF in himalayas.
This will clear ur doubt abt PARAs using desert MARPAT.We have same pattern but only difference is darker shades than the one Marines use.You can google to see diff shades of marpat with same pattern.
Thats not an sri lankan soldier.I know both of them personally on FB so no doubt about what they are wearing and their identity.

During joint training
@Jamwal's bro can u add that pic.

 

[Abingdonboy]

It is 100% Desert MARPAT bro just the shades are little darker due to low light.I have another one pic for that.

THIS is pic of PARA SF in himalayas.

I stand corrected brother

I had no idea that the desert MARPAT was in use by any Indian force (outside of Punjab police's SWAT team )

 

[Armani]

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(10)At extreme right some new kind of camo i can see

Yet another camo!

This will never end!

 

[Abingdonboy]

Yet another camo!

This will never end!

They're out of control!

 

[Dandpatta]

They're out of control!

IMO, that really is too many camos. I have made my point known many times (to Abingdonboy) as well, that when we see pictures of Indian soldiers on the field, they do look like rebels donning different camos. And this is not about COIN operations. Many field deployment pictures have too many cam variations. For example pictures of our soldiers in Kargil theater is one example.

And this begs a question that no one has answered yet :-

How does procuring of battle camou uniforms differ in India, against those of other countries? I know soldiers in India buy their uniforms from desginated / accredited shops in cantonments. Is it he same in other countries like UK / US / Pakistan / etc?

Hope someone can answer this.

@Abingdonboy
@Oscar
@Tshering22

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Not only various amounts of camo, camo that was standardized in the 90s are still circulating to this day. It's like they have several different vendors giving them all sorts of camo.

 

[Jamwal's]

(17)The jacket of left soldier also looks like us army old std camo

Also,this Camo is common in regular infantry as well.

This is my Dad's Jacket 4 years back - Dogra Regiment

Dual Camo- Olive green & Woodland

 

[Odysseus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/727842468608155650

 

[Unknowncommando]

Garud
This is the most badass pic of Garud i have ever seen

Para regular

Army commando(Ghatak) at Cambrian patrol

 

[Jamwal's]

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Garud
This is the most badass pic of Garud i have ever seen
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Para regular
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Army commando(Ghatak) at Cambrian patrol

Judging by the Red Whistle cord that Ghatak is either a Gurkha or Gharhwali.

 

[Armani]

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Where was this? More of these, please!