the old school 9 who came up with this was very different than how they came out to be later boss.
old school 9 used to do night operation?
How much old school? 2016 uri raid happened in daylight.. any more before that and they didn't even had NVGs (more than single digit number) in 90s and 2000s. Heck most of them were using optic less vz.58s pretty much till late 2000s bro. So what night ops? What you might be referring to is that they used to leave from their forward base in the darkness so that they can avoid terrorists when moving (instead of engaging). There is a difference between moving at night and fighting at night. I remember the first few pages of sapru sir's "savage hills" where he says they climbed the mountains all night inbetween heavy rain/ thunderstorm and reached the location of terrorists where they had set up a fire camp only when the first morning rays fell. After that they engaged them.
In the 90s and 2000s India had Israeli Monotube devices.
Yes ITL N/SEAS monocular. Later in 2006-07 we got AN/PVS-14 with the FMS package that included M4 sopmods. Long before 90s we had AN/PVS-4 Starlights handed to units in lanka which in later stages was getting replaced by AN/PVS-7. In between we bought russian weapon mounted ones too. Some NE unit used to loan aviator spec dual tube NVGs to conduct night raids/surveillance ops
Yar we didn't raid uri ffs it's our own garrison. Mkc bollywood ki for naming the movie as Uri the surgical strike. nvm fighting at night isn't allowed cause we don't have a night fighting ecosystem that gives us a PID. You can be using GPNVGs and all but you can't fire on a guy if you don't visually identify a weapon in his hand. Night Fighting requires a proper ecosystem that is non-existent here.
Thats true brother..
Having NV capabilities of new era**
The fact that the NVGs we have can be traced back to 90snera shows how serious we are.
OT but sapru sir got a flair for writing, "To those who know the jungle, it was the last cry of the wild before silence descended the night" chills man
yup but atleast for MARCOS I can say they always "fought" at night, the only examples of them fighting in day time have been when they were operating with Army's RR
SG have hk416 in decent numbers
