Bharat Rakshak

...Raised with the help of the CIA post-1962, it is a Special Forces unit almost the size of an army division and headed by a Major General on deputation. At the time of the procurement it was headed by Major General Dalbir Singh who has subsequently moved on to the North-East on promotion to command an army Corps....

...while a Spanish company emerged as the front-runner for a western aircraft that is currently used by the SFFF. Both put together, the initial purchase was to be of 300 parachutes followed by larger orders to equip the whole force. Each parachute costs about Rs1.25 lakh....

Dalbir Singh would be a very interesting chief
based on his background

Our Friend Vyas had some observations

Dalbir Singh would be a very interesting chief
based on his background

Our Friend Vyas had some observations

Thanks nelson

the former would be more interesting to watch

RAW comes under home ministry and not the army right? imo its high time this force be absorbed into the army and infact form the core of one of the new mountain strike divisions, with every member being uniquely para certified. kind of like the 1st airborne division concept adapted to the mountains.

that would be far better use than sitting under RAW.

Saar the SFF is not meant for use as elite infantry or para-qualified infantry like our non-SF para battalions - SFF are special forces in every sense of the word. They have been (mis)used as infantry during '71 though.

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner is well on the way to setting a world record for the highest free-fall jump.

On Thursday, the adventurer leapt from a balloon-borne capsule 71,500ft (22km) above New Mexico, landing safely eight minutes later.

The dive was intended to test all his equipment before he tries to free-fall from 120,000ft later this year.

In doing so, he would better the mark of 102,800ft set by US Air Force Colonel Joe Kittinger in 1960.

We Indians miss out on some good learning because our media will generally supply only the Dikhane ke Daant. Now people like me are forced to take vicarious pleasure in SAS videos on the net, which I find much more instructive.

I think the American designation 'Special Operations Capable' might be more fitting than Special Forces. While the SFF is no doubt composed of crack troops, the recruitment isn't as selective as the Army SF or Marcos. Also AFAIK intensive training for more unconventional tasks particularly CT and HRT is restricted to the SG.

Where the expansion of the Para SF in recent years has come in for some criticism for supposed dilution of standards, its not practical to expect more from an organisation that had a strength of 10,000 men when even the IA had only three sanctioned Para Cdo battalions.

Special Frontier Force---unveiling the secrets.

MS-8466 CAPTAIN. R. Rudra Narasimham, Army Medical Corps/Short Service Regular Commission. During the Indo-Pak War of 1971, the Special Frontier Force under the Command of Major General Sujan Singh Uban conducted an independent military operation called Operation Eagle in The Chittagong Hill Tracts. This Op Eagle was planned and executed by Indian Prime Minister Srimati Indira Gandhi. Brigadier T S Oberoi was the Commander at the Force Headquarters in the operational area. Including myself, a total of six Medical Officers took part in this military operation. Four of us were recommended to recieve Service Awards. Major PCM Mehta, Surgical Specialist, Dr. Major(Honorary) Ramesh Chandra, the Senior Medical Officer, Captain Ashok Kumar Jaiswal, Unit Medical Officer of the Unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Prasanta Coomar Purkayastha of Garhwal Rifles had received Visisht Seva Medals as recommended. I was the only Medical Officer who was recommended the award of Vir Chakra. Major General Sujan Singh Uban, Brigadier TS Oberoi, Lieutenant Colonel B K Narayan, the Regiment of Artillery Officer who was my Unit Commander, and all others know the reasons as to why I was recommended to receive the gallantry award of Vir Chakra and not some other award like Visisht Seva Medal which the other three Medical Officers had received.Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's military operation known as Operation Eagle 1971 delivered the first blow in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and initiated the Liberation of Bangladesh.

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Since July 2011, commandos of the National Security Guard (NSG) have been conducting drills by touching down at critical installations aboard specially hired civilian aircraft to gauge their reaction time. Among the sites the NSG has covered are the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) project in Visakhapatnam, which it accesses from its regional hub in Hyderabad, and the Reliance Jamnagar refinery that the security agency reaches from its new set-up in Mumbai.

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The scary part first. Brit in the video mentions 'Coalition forces' in the context of joint COIN ops with Indians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pB8j5IOGzw

The following is what I found strange. If some better informed member can help me understand why the people are doing the way they are doing it in these videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5lIZYNt ... re=related
All Indian SF run fast towards first available cover at the same time and at the top of their capability
Then all begin to slow down at about half the distance to nearest cover. Could this cause the whole
team to expose themselves to risk all at the same time and everybody reaches the safe point at the
same time. Also at no point are they in any position to shoot while moving forward. Their positioning
to bring down fire on the opponent is very small because of this form of advance.

Also I like the fact that we have different types of schools for training SF for different purposes with SF guys getting some great exposure both within and outside India.