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Magpul P-MAG D-60 Drum Magazine on STAR-21 with a 6x40mm Nimrod Telescopic Sight of a Garud Commando.
This guy is a legend..A king and a Special forces operator..this is what i would ask God if he ever asked me for a dream re birth.
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Lmao MoD would like a word with you.You mean dictatorship makes c clamping and stance better you guys are blaming everyone but not those responsible for sf modernisation . It would be good apart from Avinash sir someone else from sf point out why para sf doesn't modernize even though they regularly train with other special forces around the world . Randomly blaming about races , colonization, mental iq doesn't solve the situation.
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Magpul P-MAG D-60 Drum Magazine on STAR-21 with a 6x40mm Nimrod Telescopic Sight of a Garud Commando.
we dont have specialists, the PJs are the best warfighting doctors they have, equivalent to that title of 'warfighting doctors' would be 60 Parachute Field Hospital I thinkDo Garuds do PJ work or do we have zero equivalent to PJs?
Someone was telling me that Garuds do act more like airborne, actuall 82nd type. Cause they seize airfirelds by parachuting and all. I am not very confident in their special operations role though I could be wrongNow that ALL of Para is SF …wont be bad if Garuds raised 3 battalions of Airborne troops!
Garuds should raise 3 airborne battalions and deploy and rotate 2 companies in active field area for 6 months.Someone was telling me that Garuds do act more like airborne, actuall 82nd type. Cause they seize airfirelds by parachuting and all. I am not very confident in their special operations role though I could be wrong
elling me that Garuds do act more like airborne, actuall 82nd type. Cause they seize airfirelds by parachuting and all. I am not very confident in their special operations role though I could be wrong
Now that ALL of Para is SF …wont be bad if Garuds raised 3 battalions of Airborne troops!
Interesting perspective sir…What about Marines?Para's/Airborne are essentially light infantry who's mode of transport is Air.
But in the end they are at heart Infantry.
Garud at heart are Airmen.
IMO like the same way Seals suddenly cannot do the job of a Ranger QRT - neither can Garud be Airborne.
Interesting perspective sir…What about Marines?
So who do we rely on for Airborne infantry role…Is it going to be SFF or do we have to convert some other units..and if yes then which regtts should be chosen?Same as the paras - just not airborne Infantry - they are marine infantry -
The Key to understand (at least from my perspective) is that Stand alone 'Light Infantry' units by and large are trained to a superior level than normal Cavallry units as they dont have the benefit of heavy armour for protection.
Marine and Para's take the mandate of being pathfinders and disrupt the enemy behind enemy lines - Strategic light Infantry where their mode of transport provides great flexibility in deployment and a capability to rapid respond to a crises. -> hence these commando type formations are better trained than vanilla line infantry units. [ Some of these units even have light armour - Air Dropable APCs, Ambhips AFVs, etc - but by and large stick to their Light Infantry ethos]
Both units are usually self contained for the mission objective (or supposed to be) - their logistic chains (atleast supposed to be) smaller for a taskin (than the main force) and they often operate before or adjacent to the main force
For my argument above i am using the British/French Paras and Marines as reference - not the USMC - though the 82nd and Ranger units of the USA would be included.
The USMC would not be an apt example as they are now a whole micro military on their own (Air, Naval, Armour) on their own - however at its heart the fighting man is a light infantry specialist and the DNA flexibility and agility continues to permiate the entire gambit of their Composite Combined Arms unit.
So who do we rely on for Airborne infantry role…Is it going to be SFF or do we have to convert some other units..and if yes then which regtts should be chosen?
I think now that they have done what they have …some units of Guards or Grenadiers should be converted.The Parachute Regiment - Slap on whatever SF abs you want on the Arm - All Battalions of the Parachute Regiment will continue to be used in small units in Kashmir and battalion strenght deployment in times of war.
SF = Airborne = SF
They will do both because they are one. Singularity has been achieved.
SFF will continue in the mountains and Tibet Focus. East/West and Force Projection Will be Paras