Modernisation of Indian Army Infantry

Having interacted with more than my fair share of Indian veterans, one would assume that they gave tuitions to Rommel and Patton. The ego is so fragile, yet no emphasis on improving tactics and strategies for the modern battlefield. Every conversation always ends with “Dekhi jayegi” when it really means “Delhi jayegi”. I remember one infantry colonel I talked to lambast the need for modern helmets saying that they can’t stop AK or sniper bullets anyway and helmets only decrease your peripheral vision and they are too cumbersome to wear in the mountains where emphasis is on mobility. Now how do you respond to such chaps?
 
IndiaRising said:
Having interacted with more than my fair share of Indian veterans, one would assume that they gave tuitions to Rommel and Patton. The ego is so fragile, yet no emphasis on improving tactics and strategies for the modern battlefield. Every conversation always ends with “Dekhi jayegi” when it really means “Delhi jayegi”. I remember one infantry colonel I talked to lambast the need for modern helmets saying that they can’t stop AK or sniper bullets anyway and helmets only decrease your peripheral vision and they are too cumbersome to wear in the mountains where emphasis is on mobility. Now how do you respond to such chaps?
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An ignorant and stubborn person is a very hard person to deal with.
 
IndiaRising said:
Having interacted with more than my fair share of Indian veterans, one would assume that they gave tuitions to Rommel and Patton. The ego is so fragile, yet no emphasis on improving tactics and strategies for the modern battlefield. Every conversation always ends with “Dekhi jayegi” when it really means “Delhi jayegi”. I remember one infantry colonel I talked to lambast the need for modern helmets saying that they can’t stop AK or sniper bullets anyway and helmets only decrease your peripheral vision and they are too cumbersome to wear in the mountains where emphasis is on mobility. Now how do you respond to such chaps?
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That's a reasonable point.

That was my query as well. If all are rated for 9mm & shrapnels, why not simply improve the internal cushioning instead of get new. They do wear Patka for it's 7.62 protection.

For comparison, long-ago I once read a study on effectiveness of motorbike helmets (because Indian laws demand full face helmet but half-helms like Harley Davidson ones are allowed all over the world). It claimed their effect on reduction of hearing & visibility actually makes you more unsafe in a full helmet unless you're beyond 50km speed. Below it (ie, within speed limit areas) it's safer to wear only skull protection.
 
Bleh said:
That's a reasonable point.

That was my query as well. If all are rated for 9mm & shrapnels, why not simply improve the internal cushioning instead of get new. They do wear Patka for it's 7.62 protection.

For comparison, long-ago I once read a study on effectiveness of motorbike helmets (because Indian laws demand full face helmet but half-helms like Harley Davidson ones are allowed all over the world). It claimed their effect on reduction of hearing & visibility actually makes you more unsafe in a full helmet unless you're beyond 50km speed. Below it (ie, within speed limit areas) it's safer to wear only skull protection.
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Modern lvl3a ballistic helmets.
Can protect against fragments of handgrenades if the distance of explosion is 5-10 meter from soldiers.

If a artillary shell explodes 30-50 meters away it can stop it's fragments.

And those things are an equal or bigger danger than rifles in war.

And in a modern war there are many instances of soldier in 5-50 metrr proximity of an explosion by various weapons.

So its not a guaranteed protection, especially for relatively close distance relative to power of explosion and fragments, but it does increase the chances of survival.

Also phychogical benefits when you are wearing these helmets.
 
IndiaRising said:
Having interacted with more than my fair share of Indian veterans, one would assume that they gave tuitions to Rommel and Patton. The ego is so fragile, yet no emphasis on improving tactics and strategies for the modern battlefield. Every conversation always ends with “Dekhi jayegi” when it really means “Delhi jayegi”. I remember one infantry colonel I talked to lambast the need for modern helmets saying that they can’t stop AK or sniper bullets anyway and helmets only decrease your peripheral vision and they are too cumbersome to wear in the mountains where emphasis is on mobility. Now how do you respond to such chaps?
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You don't. change will only happen when OROP gets inevitably spanked in the next real war, likely worse than 1962, which will force the civilian government to hang the top generals to ease public anger.
 
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