Indian Army News & Discussion - 23 March 2021

[ashthor]

American Stryker among options we’re looking at to bolster northern front, says Army chief Gen Dwivedi
https://theprint.in/defence/american-st ... i/2825713/
13 Jan 2026

Either PM and DM have given up on the Defence forces embracing atmanirbhar as the corruption is everywhere in MOD and forces or they are letting the armed forces a free run like a spoilt child. All this talk of R&D from the govt now looks like farce. Late Manohar ji is being very much missed.

[chetak]

American Stryker among options we’re looking at to bolster northern front, says Army chief Gen Dwivedi
https://theprint.in/defence/american-st ... i/2825713/
13 Jan 2026

Either PM and DM have given up on the Defence forces embracing atmanirbhar as the corruption is everywhere in MOD and forces or they are letting the armed forces a free run like a spoilt child. All this talk of R&D from the govt now looks like farce. Late Manohar ji is being very much missed.

ashthor ji,

no MRAP type vehicle made in India would/could survive a naxal type ambush complete with IED. These SOBs, where required, use tons of it to construct one IED, bury it in the ground and wait for weeks, months to trigger it when the opportunity presents itself.

The pakis, cheen and the beedis have far better explosives to play with, than just plain ammonium nitrate based IEDs

the stryker may just be a few percentage points ahead in the survivability stakes but one wouldn't bet on it.

try riding in one, heading into harms way before you so disparagingly talk down to the guys guarding the borders

These guys have only recently got their BPJs. The previous govts didn't think of the BPJs as a mandatory part of their gear and all grievous events were simply covered up using two words: shaheed or martyr

Before that they went in without protection. Would you or your kind have done so?

you rush to get home in the evening to the bosom of your family, sadly, these guys don't have such cushy options.

A lot of them don't return from such assignments. Their families are, at the very least, as important as yours or mine, to say the very least

everyone has the right to his/her opinion, but no one has to listen to such snide presumptions.

The country didn't bother to look after the faujis in the field, where it would have mattered most of all and it looks like the trend continues with posters like you, who seem entirely out of touch with ground reality...........

why grudge them a bit of protection when they are out there and using phraseology out of a dirt bag commie's lurid imagination to condemn an entire ecosystem that is vital to national security

and dude, how many spoilt children do you personally know who would unquestioningly put their lives on the line, almost on a daily basis, and that too for people whom they have never seen or met

[ashthor]

Sirji where did i say i am disparagingly talking about the guys guarding the borders. Would i have joined this forum if i did?
Just said what we are seeing and hearing both in this forum and outside. Just because we criticise a few doesnt mean we look
down on them all. Tutu meme happens everywhere and it should happen, it is what keeps each others in check otherwise it will only be
meme just like our neighbors.

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2011785487389004015
@VinodDX9
No foreign platform is coming in these sections: 8×8 WhAP, MGS and ALTGS.

[Prem Kumar]

Says who?

Our Army Chief went on record 2 days back that we will explore alternatives to Stryker *if local option was available*

Has he been living under a rock? Hasn't he heard of WhAP or Morocco order? Doesn't inspire confidence when a Chief talks like this

[VinodTK]

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