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Old 25th July 2018, 15:51   #106
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I was wondering if and when it would be retired and scraped by the army, would it be considered road legal if bought via auction and restored by a civilian for personal use
OT: Sorry to be a nitpicker, but the CISF (who seem to be the users of the Renault Sherpa from the tweet image above) is a CAPF, and is not a branch of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Mr Narayan, would you have some pictures of these ground vehicles we have been using, I am sure there are many Russian and British vehicles we had used - and of course we started making them on our own along with other domestic manufacturers like Tata and Mahindra.
I do not have photos but they can be pulled from the internet quite readily. To best of my knowledge we did not manufacture the Russian trucks. They were purchased as apart of the missile or radar or rocket launcher they carried. Tatra 8x8 we did make in country by BEML. Some photos from the Republic Day parade.

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Prithvi Surface to surface ballistic missile on a Tatra 8x8

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Pechora Surface to air missile on a Russian 6x6

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Old truck from WW2. This was a Canadian made Chevrolet Type 15A produced to a British Army specification. British specs, American design, Canadian made, used in India. These ubiquitious small trucks were phased out circa 1968-70. Towards the latter part of their lives many were put on school bus and other utility duties in the cantonments. As a kid I went to school often trundling in one of these.
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To best of my knowledge we did not manufacture the Russian trucks. They were purchased as apart of the missile or radar or rocket launcher they carried. Tatra 8x8 we did make in country by BEML.
What I meant was we started making our own trucks through Tata, Leyland etc

Old truck from WW2. This was a Canadian made Chevrolet Type 15A produced to a British Army specification. British specs, American design, Canadian made, used in India. These ubiquitious small trucks were phased out circa 1968-70. Towards the latter part of their lives many were put on school bus and other utility duties in the cantonments. As a kid I went to school often trundling in one of these. [/quote]

Thanks for sharing, My Grandfather used to tell us stories about Ford and Chevrolet trucks while he was serving the British Indian Army in North East India.

As you said - I am trying a bit of googling and adding some pics so that - people could contribute with more info against each of them.

Found this Chevrolet again (Canadian) from Wikipedia
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Are these the same BedFord we used I can see 2 types while the one with visible bonnet are still being driven around (Source http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com)
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Another one from Tbhp - I have seen this in front of Kempegowda Bus Terminal at Bangalore
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This one from the Danish Army Archives (Source : http://www.armyvehicles.dk)
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I have seen these Bedford Trucks doing duty as firetrucks in Tanzania, Did we use them?
(Source Wikipedia)
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What make are these ? Another image from TBHP
Source : Alamy
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So the Kraz as well.
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Time for some Shaktiman (Source - Tbhp)
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Source : http://www.defenseandtechnologylover.com
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Moving to Tata (Source : Tata Motors Webpage)

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A beauty in itself - It says Tata Military Truck used by the Nepal Army
Source : http://www.flickriver.com
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Our Workhorse - I think this is the most widely used military truck in this category by our defense forces. The same trucks are being used by the Kenya Defense Forces, and I have seen many there in Kenya as well.

Source: Wikiwand
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Some Jongas - I have read that these are Nissan SUV's made in India - more insights will help.

Source: myjonga.com
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Not sure whether these are the images of the same Pajeros used by ITBP - but I am sure that they use some Pajeros there, along with a newly acquired set of Fortuners.
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Another newbie - beauty from Tata - not sure whether they are in service, probably from some defence expo.
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And finally the Windy - this is probably the only picture I have seen of this vehicle. Based on my limited knowledge this was an attempt by DRDO for a domestic LSV. Please contribute in adding more info.
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Spotted the Renault Sherpa Light Scout tanking up at the petrol pump opposite PMs residence .

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A 7 tonne juggernaut with 4.7 litre turbo diesel twisting 800Nm torque and 215 bhp

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More Sherpas coming:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...6.cms?from=mdr

I remember reading about multiple such vehicles being tested. Those included Tatas and Mahindras. Is that selection over? Renault Sherpas were the winners?
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I'm rather keen to hear what the folks here think about a recent announcement in the PM's speech that I found most interesting from a defence perspective:
India will get a Chief of Defence Staff (akin to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs for the US)
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-n...home-topscroll
It's something I've argued in favour of for a while. I really hope the creation of this position finally starts imparting something resembling cohesion to our famously patchwork defence structure (hopeful I know but oh well)

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I'm rather keen to hear what the folks here think about a recent announcement in the PM's speech that I found most interesting from a defence perspective:
India will get a Chief of Defence Staff (akin to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs for the US)........
In one way a practical move to better co-ordinate the actions and intelligence gathering of the three forces plus Coast Guard and now the burgeoning ballistic missile force. With networking, cyber warfare and cyber intelligence becoming prominent a more co-ordinated approach is needed. In addition to the reporting line of the three chiefs to the CDS they should also have their reporting lines to the Raksha Mantri kept alive.

This new position of the CDS brings into question of his role vis a vis the role of the Defence Secretary. The Defence Secretary is usually an IAS Officer when it really should be an IFS Officer as Defence is execution of your foreign policy by other means. And that is what was intended in 1947 but the vice like grip of the IAS over almost every top post in GoI at the expense of other services is infamous. As it is the Defence Secretary (most of them at least) behaves as if they and not the RM is the boss of the Chiefs and the layer of the CDS will complicate this bureaucracy further.

One more change the PM should bring in is a fixed 5-year tenure for the Chiefs. The current 3 year one is too little to bring change in such vast organizations.
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Agreed, the problem in India is the creation of a new rung in the ladder is yet more kindling to the raging bonfire that is the bureaucracy. Ah well, I'd like to think that the operational benefits would be significant enough to outweigh the pitfalls (more wistful thinking maybe..). It should be like a central switchboard from which the CDS can assign whichever service assets or combination thereof are nearest and best placed to deal with an evolving situation. Surely that would make all the services more nimble as a result. Heck it might even lead to more streamlined responses in natural disasters and surely the public can't argue against that.

I can't help but think of Sir Humphrey from the biting satirical political comedy Yes, Minister. It really is true all the tropes they have about the Secretaries and the rest of the bureaucratic class. Sigh.

Surely the model here should be for service chiefs => CDS => Defence Minister => Prime Minister

Also agreed, 3 years is far too short. By the time they'll become acclimatised with the extensive service and structures they'll soon have to plan for their succession.
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Some pics and specifications for Mahindra Armored Light Specialist Vehicle.
Apparently the vehicle is undergoing high altitude testing.

source:https://twitter.com/strategic_front/...186496512?s=20
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Mr Narayan, would you have some pictures of these ground vehicles we have been using, I am sure there are many Russian and British vehicles we had used - and of course we started making them on our own along with other domestic manufacturers like Tata and Mahindra.
Finding pics of many support vehicles is an incredible challenge. There are equipments we used in hundreds if not thousands and yet the number of photos we have today is often as low as just 4 or 5(Zil 157 for example).

Speaking of Russian trucks, the ones we used that are confirmed by photo evidence-
Zil-157 seen in 2 images pulling SA-2 guideline missile. Their existence in other format(fuel bowser, support truck, mobile radar for SA-2) is pure conjecture but highly probable.

KRaZ 225- truck, crane and possibly mobile radar as it was a common radar base in Soviet use.

Zil-131- seen in truck format, as forward radio command post , multi barrel GRAD rocket carrier, SA-3 SAM carrier, fuel bowser(pics I cannot find but confirmed by firsthand source), very likely in crane format too( to reload the missile launch platforms). Various mobile Radar patform in IAF.

Ural 375- truck, fuel bowser, GRAD rocket carrier, crane, mobile radar platform.

Ural 4320- same as 375 and pontoon bridge deployer.

Often the above trucks were licence built by other soviet bloc nations with minor and yet visible differences and we had those as well. It is a logistical nightmare.

Between 47-70 we had many British and American support vehicle as well but virtually no photo evidence exists. It does not helps that the same truck was often license built by half a dozen companies and it is anybody's guess which we had- probably all since we basically picked up what the Allies left laying around across India after WW-2. We certainly had the Bedford-QL chassis and Canadian Military Pattern chassis.


Ural-4320 based pontoon bridge deployer. Russian Army video, title is misleading. But I have it from first hand army source that we have them. Lack of photo is not because of secrecy but indifference(same reason why you wont find photo of dozens of other lesser known vehicles).




KRaZ 225, Zil-131 and what appears to be a Ural 375 derivative in a single convoy of Air Force pulling Radar and support equipment-

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Ural 4320 fuel bowser.

Event is from 1987 signifying the induction of MiG-29 into IAF. The logo on the door is of that No28 Squadron "The first supersonics" .

Ex Army civilian auctioned Ural 4320 crane- I have so far failed to find a pic of the same in actual service.
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The only two images of Zil-157 in Indian Service that I could find! pulling SA-2 guideline and both pics are from 26th Jan parade.
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Finding pics of many support vehicles is an incredible challenge.
Thanks so much for sharing the info basuroy, interesting see these pics. Will do make some Wikipedia / Google research to find pics - probably Russian.

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Here is an interesting 178 crore emergency acquisition order recently placed by the DAC (Defence Acquisition Council), the Kalyani M4.

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To be manufactured by Bharat Forge, the defence division of Kalyani group of Pune. Under a collaboration with the Paramount group of South Africa.

Based on the Parmount Mbombe 4 armoured troop transporter. Indeed the vehicle that deserves to be termed 'Badass by design'. Imagine this following you at 130 kph on highway!

Engine Specs:
  • Six Cylinder Turbo Diesel (Displacement unknown)
  • Peak Power - 336 kW or 450 BHP
  • Peak torque is a massive 1627 Nm
  • Transmission - 6 speed auto
  • Burst Top Speed - 140 kph

Brochure attached for reference, directly available for download from Paramount Group official website!

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India & US to co-produce Stryker armoured fighting vehicle

At the recent annual 2+2 dialogue conducted between the Indian Ministers of External Affairs and Defence and the US Secretaries of State and Defense, both countries have agreed to ‘co-produce’ the Stryker among other things. This is interesting because India already have a domestic alternative - the Tata Kestrel of which the Army has ordered around 200 already, so I wonder what is the need to produce the Stryker, are they of different weight classes (like Apache vs Prachand)?

The Stryker

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And the locally developed Tata Kestrel

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