As we all know, special forces are a very mysterious existence for the vast majority of people, and these special forces are also known as the "king of soldiers".
In some film and television works, the special forces are proficient in all kinds of martial arts, the most famous of which are the US Navy SEALs, the "fighting nation" Russia's Alpha Special Forces, and the German anti-terrorist knife commandos.
Compared with these majestic names, India's name for its special forces is very down-to-earth, and it calls its own special forces "Black Cat Force".
What's even more interesting is that netizens called it "funny special forces", the reason is that 10 members of the 200 Black Cat Force fought other countries and finally returned 20 people, which became an international negative teaching material. So, what's the story?Let's talk about it today.
The Black Cat Force is another name for the Indian *** Guard, and this special forces unit has only been established for more than 30 years. Back in 1984, India's leader was a female prime minister named Indira Gandhi.
After the death of India's former leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi became the new prime minister, and in 1966 reluctantly agreed to the idea of dividing India's states into states according to their own languages.
In fact, this plan was proposed as early as the Nehru period, and the Sikhs were the main force in promoting it.
In addition, Tamil, Marati and other local tycoons also follow the gourd, hoping to use language, religion and ethnicity as the criteria for dividing regions.
It's just that Nehru ruthlessly rejected the ideas of these people, and the leaders of these local forces at that time were all elderly people with certain experience and qualifications, and they were unwilling to tear their faces with Nehru.
With the death of Jawaharlal Nehru and the retirement of the older generation of local powers, things changed completely.
The Sikh Young Zhuang faction was very radical, and after Indira Gandhi came to power, they even forced the other side to agree to the policy of "language statehood", which violated the interests of some people in Punjabi and laid the groundwork for the later Blue Star operation.
In 1984, Punjab** was largely non-existent, and the Sikhs had become accustomed to using violence to solve problems, with some extremists hunting down Hindus.
On June 6, without any warning, Indira directly ordered the Indian ** army to launch an attack on the temple cult in the Punjab area.
The temple is a place of pilgrimage for the Sikhs and holds a very high status in their hearts. In the blink of an eye, the temple was razed to the ground, and this method of countering violence with violence did make the Sikhs a lot more honest, but it also made their hatred with Indira** deeper and deeper.
Just a few months after Operation Blue Star, Indira Gandhi was assassinated, and the following year India was the result of a world-shattering air crash that killed 329 people and was concocted by Sikh extremists.
For nearly 20 years, relations between Hindus and the Sikhs were very tense, and in view of the poor performance of the Indian regular forces in dealing with the Sikhs, the Indian Legislature was established in 1986 and on September 22 of that year.
This unit uniformly wears black clothing, and the armband has a black cat pattern, so it is also called the "Black Cat Special Forces". India attaches great importance to this special forces and plans to build it into a world-class special forces.
India is a country that has a characteristic, no matter what its strength is, it must not lose in momentum.
This special force is positioned as a special commando unit specializing in anti-terrorism activities, and the headquarters is located in the *** office area of New Delhi, with a strength of about 7,500 troops.
India's successive ** have attached great importance to this special commando, and the Black Cat unit is divided into special operations teams and special ranger teams according to different tasks.
The operation team is the core and main force of the Black Cat Force, and its members are almost all elites drawn from the *** Guard.
The selection of the Special Ranger team is relatively less rigorous, with members drawn from the border troops and various army departments, and its main task is to support the operation team, and it is involved in a wider range of operations.
According to the information released by the Indian side, the training of the Black Cat unit is very strict. Indeed, compared to ordinary Indian people who are accustomed to being rotten and getting by, the training of the Black Cat Special Forces is indeed very strict.
The team members have to get up at four or five o'clock in the morning to start a day's training, and the training tasks are also very heavy, including more than ten kinds of special skills such as professional sanda, driving, escorting, grappling and fighting, and the use of firearms.
Since the Black Cat Special Forces are mainly anti-terrorism, they also need to learn how to use bombs, light bombs, etc.**, the basic training of these team members will reach three months, and more than half of the reservists will be eliminated within three months, and the rest will enter a long advanced training stage.
At the advanced training stage, special forces will face hellish tests, that is, practice shooting at moving and stationary targets, and learn different equipment, how to drive vehicles on various roads and environments, hide, how to quickly rescue hostages, negotiate with extremists, and other items.
In addition to strict training, the equipment of the Black Cat Special Forces is also the most sophisticated among all branches of the Indian military, and the Indian official hopes to make the Black Cat Special Forces a trump card, so they are equipped with the most advanced **.
Almost every member of the Black Cat Special Forces has an advanced German-made submachine gun, as well as an Austrian-made sniper rifle, an advanced global positioning system, a night vision device, and a laser rangefinder, which will also be chosen at will according to personal habits and different tasks.
If it is a water battle, the special forces will also use advanced rubber boats, and it can be seen from the equipment that the Black Cat force should be a strong special forces.
It is a pity that the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, in fact, this unit has repeatedly made mistakes when performing its tasks, and has also set a "record" of 200 special forces fighting 10 extremists and killing 20 of its own.
After the establishment of the Black Cat Special Forces, they have repeatedly declared themselves to be "world-class, zero errors" of the ace powerhouse, as the old saying goes, the mule is a horse out for a walk, and a team has no strength to see the real chapter in actual combat occasions.
The Indian Black Cat special forces who were blown into the sky finally became a laughing stock, and they spent 60 hours rescuing the hostages and were almost wiped out, what is going on?
It happened in late November 2008 when 10 assailants broke into a hotel in Mumbai and kidnapped several hostages.
The Indian authorities quickly sent black cat special forces to rescue the hostages, when 2,000 people were dispatched, I thought that these special forces armed with advanced equipment ** 10 gangsters were holding a handle, but their performance on the scene was shocking.
At 23:05 local time on the night of November 26, 200 Black Cat team members rushed to Mumbai after receiving the notice, and encountered the first problem when they put on their clothes and received ammunition to prepare for departure.
At that time, only one IL-76 transport plane could transport the 200 people from New Delhi to Mumbai at the same time, and unfortunately the plane was in Chandigarh, another city in India.
The pilot, who was still asleep, was suddenly woken up, and his superiors ordered him to return to New Delhi immediately, and by the time these special forces got on the plane, it was already more than 2 o'clock in the morning of the next day, and it took more than four hours just to set off.
Generally speaking, it is necessary to make an opposition within 30 minutes in an anti-terrorist operation in order to avoid *** occupying a favorable form.
The absurdity had just begun, and the 200 special forces had wasted another three hours on the plane and arrived in Mumbai at around 5:30 a.m. that morning.
After that, they took a bus for more than 40 minutes to the designated place, which was not the place where the incident occurred, and the special forces began to formulate an action plan on the spot after listening to a summary of the situation.
At this time, nearly 10 hours had passed since the kidnapping, and after some tossing, the special forces finally arrived at the hotel where the incident occurred.
This hotel covers a large area and the building is complex, and at this time, the special forces found the most critical thing, they did not have the architectural drawings of the hotel, which means that all the people are in the dark.
The extremists, who had been waiting here for a long time, threw grenades and machine-gun fire at the special forces without saying a word, and the head of the Mumbai anti-terrorism agency was shot three times.
Near noon, the 200 special forces of the Black Cat Commando began to start their mission, and the hotel burst into gunfire for a while, and some rooms were on fire from time to time.
Later, the Mumbai police who came to the scene to support found that these extremists had been in contact with the outside world and were under the command of the people behind the scenes.
Two other anti-terrorist SWAT commanders were killed on the spot after being attacked by extremists, and the first day passed in a panic until the next day, when firefighters entered the scene to extinguish the fire.
According to statistics, the entire process of rescuing the hostages took 60 hours, 20 of the 200 special forces of the Black Cat Special Forces were killed and 50 were injured, 195 hostages were killed and 600 were injured, and 99 of the 10 robbers were killed and 1 was captured alive.
India** followed up on the operation and broadcast it live to the world, and the exaggerated battle loss ratio made the Indian authorities lose face, and this operation has also become a negative teaching material among special forces around the world.
Later, according to India's ** report, after this incident, the Black Cat special forces learned from the pain, not only carried out many internal rectifications and downsizing personnel to select the elite of the elite, but also became more rigorous, and the phenomenon of chaotic fighting in the later period was improved.
However, the effect of this approach does not seem to be obvious, and after 2008, there have been many ironic incidents in the Black Cat Army.
On the whole, the "funny" character label of this special forces has not been washed off until now, and it is difficult to call it a world-class special forces.
The experience of India's black cat special forces tells the world that it is impossible to become a world-class army only by relying on advanced equipment and firepower, and the construction of a country's military strength is not achieved overnight.
What do you think differently about this?