View: https://youtu.be/7D30EnrUz8g?si=2hSVvlnSSAwmuPsZ
Every SF geek on this thread must watch this podcast - one of the finest SF operations that too the first and last on foreign soil (officially).
Brig Mukherjee, SM** is such a fine narrator that he takes the lead in making the story engaging with minimal questions/probing from the hosts.
And Para SF was on its peak during the late 90s to the early 00s. Period!
The on ground learning on the job involving fastroping with mitten gloves while slithering down from Chinooks or modifying a MMG to fire from a hip position by installing foregrips, slings and drum mag belts, etc. goes on to say how much can a unit upskill during a conflict.
Also entails details of working hand in hand with the British SAS and how good of a fighting force they were. Truly ahead of time.
Wish we'd kept on collaborating with the Brits.
At the end, the Brigadier says what's said by any truehearted SF operator, "All SF units across the world are similar and at par with each other - it's the country's geopolitical standing, focus and priorities that shape them up differently."
Op Khukri certainly hasn't received the the kind of commendation and fanfare it deserves.
It also pains me to imagine what our Special Forces could be if not let down by idiotic people and their egoistic lobbies at the top...
