Thread: Nepal says Indian INSAS riffles let it down in rebel battle

Originally Posted by lemontree

Its just a heavier barrel version and shorter in length. But not much fun to fire. The original Belgian auto SLRs are much better (the BSF is issued with these, 1 per section).

Yes I'd checked out the Belgian FALs - beautiful piece. The CRPF uses a few as well. I didn't know it was on per section basis.

In the army we say that if you get stuck in an ambush in J&K you can escape but in the NE even God can't save you.

haha - Well, being a Naga myself I find myself pretty amused by the statement. I can tell you one thing, they choose the Ambush sites very well (I'd inspected some "historical" ambush sites not just in Nagaland but other states as well), but again the guerillas are just human and just as frightened and excited as anyone else. They only had the advantage of throwing the first punch. It was and is my belief that, tables can be turned using proper procedure. Level headed field leadership and of course properly tutored troops and effective weapons. Of late, I've observed very professional movement and SFP's by the military, I guess we've learnt from the past (Finally!)- and of course they're a whole lot more polite nowdays

The UBL or GL is a section weapon, while a 2" mor is a platoon weapon. The GL seems to be on its way out and the UBL may get inducted, till then one has to use the GL at the rifle section level.

Yeah, I'd seen some of those revolving GLs in JK, I hope UBGLS are going to be inducted too, since the revolving type will probably require a dedicated bloke who will be useless once he's popped off all his G's. A UBGL person still has his basic weapon to continue fighting. Hell, I'd seen a soldiers on sniffer-dog patrols (Platoon strength) lugging 84mm Carl Gustafs!

That is because of the predictability factor. It will always happen, troops going cross country rarely get ambushed.

Yup- you're right there. I've rarely heard of a foot patrol being successfully ambushed. Even in motorized movement, it's only recently that I'd observed good spacing of vehicles. Earlier it used to be bunched up in a complete goose f**k, providing small saturated killing zones for the ambushers. Now of course with wide dispersal of vehicles the ambushers are forced to stretch their killing zone at the cost of concentrated fire arcs. They also have the Casspir now, so explosive initiated ambushes are, as I assume, rendered less effective.

As you mentioned to indianguy4u urban warfare is a pain- one that cannot be mastered with conventional tactics. Collateral damage (human and material) is a handicap, not to mention the stupid bleeding heart liberal farts, who are a cancer almost as bad as the terrorists. Here, I'll comment less since you're the one with first hand experience.