Very rare pics of some of India's Special Forces, specialty units

[VAMAN]

First priority should be the infantry soldiers and their gear. Tanks and fighter aircrafts can wait.

[Adux]

Raj,

Forget Jungle Warfare, The need of the helmet is in the border areas and in Urban operations. Where a cement fragment can kill you.

[d14gtc]

Exactly.... Our forces lack basic tactical gear an armour....this thing is in need to b addressed as first priority.

[sikh_warrior]

guys please read this article

Every day, millions of soldiers across the world, from Turkey to the United States, don Kevlar helmets. One in every 10 of these helmets is rolled off the production line of M Kumar Udyog (MKU), a small Kanpur-based company that cranks out a staggering 25,000 ballistic helmets—enough to equip over two army divisions—in a month.

The helmets cost $200 (Rs 8,000) each and are exported to the armies of over 40 countries, including the police and homeland security forces of the US.

Neeraj Gupta, who heads the company’s foreign sales department, recalls the time, five years ago, when foreign firms cited lower costs in China to counter his price. Recently, however, Gupta bagged a $15-million (Rs 60 crore) order to armour Turkish naval frigates despite his quote being 40 per cent higher than his nearest competitor’s.

“When I recently asked a foreign defence company if the Chinese were not competing any more, they said they were looking for armoured protection, not soft toys,” he explains.

Today MKU is a buzzword in the rarefied world of armour protection, be it equipping the soldiers of Singapore or armouring German-built warships in Turkey. The firm, which bought its helmet technology from a US company a few years ago for Rs 50 lakh, plans to buy German and American firms to be able to compete better in the international market.

MKU is one of the biggest success stories in the nascent, but fastgrowing, private sector defence industry. Seven years after the doors were thrown open to private participants, they now produce world-class helmets, electronic processors, nuclear fallout shelters, simulators and unmanned aerial vehicles.

rest of the article is here:
http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/in...&page=archieve

[Adux]

Sikh Warrior Please cross post this in our Indian News Thread in General Section Thanks

[cheusov]

I'm looking for pics of MKU's helmets in service with Indian or any other Army in the world, anybody can help me with that??

regards

[Aryan_Singh]

I'm looking for pics of MKU's helmets in service with Indian or any other Army in the world, anybody can help me with that??

regards

I doubt they will be in service with Indian Army

[Aryan_Singh]

Hey guys I am sure you can post some new photos of Indian Soldiers from recent events in J&K

[d14gtc]

hey guys.... MKU helms is really a piece to get a glance....can Sombody Post.

[rajkhalsa]

Here are some more photos of Indian Army Paracommandos:







^ During exercise Indra in Russia


^ Paracdo Major, copyright Dilip Muralidaran


^ A Paracdo Havaldar (equivalent to Sergeant), copyright Captain Suresh


I'm going to kind of deviate from the theme of this thread for a bit, as the following pics are of regular (not special forces or specialty unit) troops. However they of troops stationed on Siachen Glacier bordering both Pakistan- and China-occupied-Kashmir, which at nearly 19,000 feet is the highest battlefield in the world:















-Raj

[He219]

US Special Forces soldiers sit with Indian soldiers as they prepare to take part in an exercise at The Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) in Vairengte on August 11, 2008. The school in the northeastern state of Mizoram which borders Myanmar prepares troops for low-intensity and unconventional guerilla warfare and has trained more than 300,000 defence personnel since its inception.

< carrying Indian Tavors.

A US Special Forces soldier abseils from an Indian Air Force helicopter during an exercise at The Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) in Vairengte on August 11, 2008. The school in the northeastern state of Mizoram which borders Myanmar prepares troops for low-intensity and unconventional guerilla warfare and has trained more than 300,000 defence personnel since its inception.

[rajkhalsa]

Great pics HE

If my eyes aren't failing me, those are the second batch of pics ever publicly released of Tavors in Indian use. The Indian army contingent looks to be paracommandos

[rajkhalsa]

Time for another round of pics! Split into 2 posts this time...


For Indian independence day, Special Protection Group (SPG) commandos, the Indian equivalent of the American Secret Service, personnel sported a whole new look and equipment:



^ For reference, their old kit


Soldiers from the paramilitary Assam Rifles, an elite COIN unit:



^ Assam Rif Ghatak commando


Rashtriya Rifles commandos:









^ The beards indicate that these troops are coming back from an infiltration mission



Indian Navy Marine Commandos:






Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Commandos:







-Raj

[rajkhalsa]

Part 2-


Indian Army Paracommdandos:



^ Paracdo Major







Posted in this thread for no reason except for their inherent badassedness , pictures of regular troops from various Gorkha Rifles Regiments:






Jammu and Kashmir State Police Special Operations Group (SOG). This elite police unit comprised of ethnic Kashmiris is tasked with deep-cover infiltration missions of domestic terrorist cells. As such, like many other special operations groups in India, they often to mask their faces with their trademark bandanas when cameras are about:



^ SOG wearing helmets in the background. Rashtriya Rifles soldier in the foreground.


^ Taking cover during a gun battle



Indian Air Force Garud Force commandos:






Indian Army ethnic Tibetan Ladakh Scouts Regitment Ghatak commandoplatoon:




-Raj

[rajkhalsa]

I'm looking for pics of MKU's helmets in service with Indian or any other Army in the world, anybody can help me with that??

regards

hey guys.... MKU helms is really a piece to get a glance....can Sombody Post.

Unfortunately, the troops that use PASGT (NSG, SPF, SFF, Para, Police SWAT and Commandos) are far to sensitive and don't have modern pics of them in combat gear.

I've seen Delhi police SWAT team officers sporting them in screencaptures from a news story on an anti-terror drill. I've also seen a couple news pics of NSG commandos wearing them as well, but I don't know of any others.

EDIT- nevermind, found them

The helmets in question-


NSG-


Indian Army Parachute Regiment:



Delhi Police SWAT-


Cheers,
Raj