POTD: Indian Special Forces B&T MP9
Back in 2012 the Indian Army purchased just over 1,500 B&T MP9 submachine gun after serious equipment shortfalls were highlighted by senior army officers. It’s unclear if India have made subsequent MP9 orders. These were issued to the Indian Army’s specialist Ghatak Platoons. Each Indian battalion has an attached Ghatak platoon which is specially trained for special operations duties.
This photograph posted on twitter by Major Gaurav Arya, a retired former Ghatak team leader, shows the platoon leader from the Kumaon Regiment posing with his B&T MP9 after a platoon briefing. The MP9 is fitted with a B&T QD SMG/PDW suppressor but no optic, just standard iron sights.
The rest of the Ghatak team appear to be armed with a mixture of the Indian Army’s INSAS, a SVD (complete with ghillie suited sniper) and Romanian AKs with side folding stocks. The Indian Army is in the process of purchasing over half a million new AK-pattern rifles to replace the INSAS.
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a suppressed AK 102 or 104 would serve them better
do not fail to acknowledge the total viability, power and force of these well trained ALLIES of the US. Consider a 50 million man, well organized, well armed, well supplied Army in coordination with and alongside US forces.... embedded, by birth and nature, inside that rough and vast region so very close to China (Russia) ! enough said ~