Actually MARCOS and USN SEALs are or at least used to be the only 2 units in the world who can parachute into the ocean with a full combat load.
Find that very hard to believe. what about SBS, SOKO SEALs ?
Actually MARCOS and USN SEALs are or at least used to be the only 2 units in the world who can parachute into the ocean with a full combat load.
Parajumping at sea is quite a risky exercise...
As my dad told me...you have to let go of your chute at the right time; to high at you risk hurting yourself bad and too low and yu run the risk of getting entangled in own para chords and drowning..
vaibhav.n wrote:Aditya G wrote:ID the paratrooper unit:
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(Op Maitri, Nepal)
252 Parachute AD Battery
rkhanna wrote:Actually MARCOS and USN SEALs are or at least used to be the only 2 units in the world who can parachute into the ocean with a full combat load.
Find that very hard to believe. what about SBS, SOKO SEALs ?
Waves of money have sluiced through SEAL Team 6 since 2001, allowing it to significantly expand its ranks — reaching roughly 300 assault troops, called operators, and 1,500 support personnel — to meet new demands. But some team members question whether the relentless pace of operations has eroded the unit’s elite culture and worn down Team 6 on combat missions of little importance. The group was sent to Afghanistan to hunt Qaeda leaders, but instead spent years conducting close-in battle against mid- to low-level Taliban and other enemy fighters. Team 6 members, one former operator said, served as “utility infielders with guns.”
The cost was high: More members of the unit have died over the past 14 years than in all its previous history. Repeated assaults, parachute jumps, rugged climbs and blasts from explosives have left many battered, physically and mentally.
dinesha wrote:^^
India is now working towards creating three new tri-Service organisations to handle the rapidly-expanding challenges in the crucial domains of space, cyberspace and clandestine warfare, which will be headed by two-star generals, in a synergised manner.
The ball will be set rolling by the creation of the Defence Cyber Agency (DCA), which will be followed by the Defence Space Agency (DSA) and the Special Operations Division (SOD). As per IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, also the chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, these will be "interim arrangements" till the full-fledged Cyber, Aerospace and Special Operations Commands can take shape in the years ahead.
Sources say the plan is to "upgrade and expand" the existing Defence Information Assurance and Research Agency into the DCA. The DSA, in turn, will be created by pooling the resources of the three Services, along with finalisation of the Defence Space Roadmap 2030 to go beyond the already-identified thrust areas of intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, communication and navigation.
As for the SOD, while the Army, Navy and IAF will continue to retain their own special forces, "a new central pool" will also be established for joint command and control of unconventional warfare capabilities.
With the three services often engaging in turf-wars, India has only two existing unified commands till now. The first was the Andaman and Nicobar Command, established as a theatre command in 2001. The Strategic Forces Command, in turn, was created to handle the country's nuclear arsenal in 2003.
But the need for unified structures to deal with threats in the new battlegrounds of space and cyberspace, after the traditional ones of land, air and sea, has now become urgent. China, for instance, has developed potent military space and cyberspace capabilities, ranging from advanced ASAT (anti-satellite) and directed-energy laser weapons to cyber-weapons.
Some countries now even consider cyber-weapons to be the game-changing weapons of the future, almost akin to use of nuclear bombs for the first time in 1945. At a seminar on Wednesday evening, for instance, deputy chief of integrated defence staff (operations) Vice Admiral Girish Luthra said, "Cyberspace applications today include surveillance, intelligence and actual conduct of military operations - both defensive and offensive."
"The cyber domain also offers an attractive option for asymmetric warfare in terms of offsetting conventional superiority. Further, attacks on critical ICT (information and communications technology) networks can provide significantly higher military advantages than physical attacks," he added.
As for the SOD, while the Army, Navy and IAF will continue to retain their own special forces, "a new central pool" will also be established for joint command and control of unconventional warfare capabilities.
More than a dozen member strong team of the US army special forces, which flew in on their special aircraft to Delhi, is taking part in this exercise with 30 members of NSG’s 51 Special Action Group (SAG). US army and Indian army Special Forces take part in Exercise Vajra Prahar every year but this is the first time NSG, which comes under the Home Ministry, is training with the US army Special Forces. 51 SAG, a unit fully manned by officers and men on deputation from the army, is India’s premier counter-terrorist response team for any terror related crisis in the country. The soldiers from 51 SAG led the counter-terrorist operations in Mumbai during the 26-11 terror strikes, undertaken by Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan of 51 SAG was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for his gallant action during the Mumbai terror strike. According to sources, Hawai-based Special Operations Command Pacific of the US Army has been trying to engage NSG for the last 10 years but it is only since the arrival of Modi government that “things have started moving along”. The plans for this joint training were first mooted in 2013, and were further discussed during President Obama’s visit to India in January. -
Exercise “Balanced Iroquois” is aimed at creating interoperability between the NSG and the US Special Forces, should the need ever arise during a crisis caused by terrorists. “We want to be the guys NSG calls for help,” an American military official said. “But before we reach that stage, we need to develop mutual trust between the two forces. We can look at intelligence exchange, sharing of tactical intelligence, providing advisors, setting up a combined operations room and then, conducting a combined raid,” the official added. -
Before NSG calls the US line, they would have the IA SF, Garud and Marcos..aim should be to encourage cross training between all those.
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