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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Captain,
Forgot that you were light infantry. However, that being said, I don't know about adding a MANPAD pltn to a bn. You guys would be pretty flushed out and yet still trying to be "light." Do you really need more weight that would slow down your deployment schema?
You will have to educate me on what kind of support you normally get and what kind of threats you would be expecting. I cannot imagine deploying my light guys without the proper air support since that's the only way that they can get in there.
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Sir,
The current standard infantry battalion of the Indian army is akin to any other Commonwealth battalion. The "word" light infantry (in my regiment The Sikh Light Infantry) is only to differentiate it from the other Sikh Regiment, due to difference in class composition.
The type of support we noramlly get depends on the sector/terrain we get deployed in. In the plains we get are in close proximity to our armour and mech guys and hence have the benifit of a full compliment of their AD assets to back us up. But when we are in the mountains, then due to terrain restrictions the heavy AD elements have to remain near vital installations, leaving us dependent on the AF CAPs, and we happen to have a lot of mountains where we fight (a major protion of Kashmir and the entire China front is mountainous.
I believe that in the US army infantry battalions 1 x MANPAD launcher is part of the rifle coy HQ.