India showed camel cavalry with mortars at a military parade

Yesterday, a military parade was held in India dedicated to the national holiday - Republic Day. On January 26, 1950, India ceased to be a British dominion and was officially proclaimed a republic. Since then, military parades and other festive ceremonies have been regularly held on this day.

This time, units of various branches of the armed forces and branches of the armed forces of India passed in a solemn formation in a military parade, military equipment passed by.

However, the most spectacular event, especially for people far from Indian exoticism, was the passage of camel cavalry - camel units. And this is not only a national military band in ancient uniforms, but also quite modern units.

The parade was attended by specially trained "combat camels" of the so-called camel cavalry of the border troops. The Rajasthani Camel Cavalry Battalion is part of the Indian Frontier Security Force. Previously, it was used to patrol the state border in the west of the country, in the Thar Desert. Now, according to foreign sources, the camel cavalry performs ceremonial functions and is an obligatory participant in all solemn parades in the country.

However, in addition to camel riders in ancient clothes, this time a unit of a completely modern look was also brought to the parade. The combat camels were dressed in special camouflage blankets and transported not only military personnel armed with assault rifles, but also small mortars.

Comments

[Murmur 55]

Beautiful, colorful, soulful)))
I just want to shout, - "Jimmy DANCING !!!!".

[dmi.pris1]

A camel is a dangerous animal in itself. .True, the cattle roared at night, unmasking the battery ..

[The black]

Now one Central European country will say ... give .... won't even say - WILL DEMAND!!!!!

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Black

Now one Central European country will say ... give

And sho? ... Weight!

[Alexander Salenko]

I especially liked the second picture, I’ve seen something like this, but I imagine that camel after the shot. I shot from the cooler, it’s such a fart a couple of tens of centimeters and a long butt with a bed that is placed under the arm, my respect, I almost went deaf.

[dmi.pris1]

For DShK+ ..But a camel is only like a transport, a tax. In battle, unlike a horse, he is very afraid of explosions and shooting.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: Nikolaevich I

And sho? ... Weight!

Soon we will see camel-rocket carriers of camel-to-air missiles.

[Alexander Salenko]

It is possible and useful to remember, but then only the American army was fully motorized

[Fizik13]

Quote: Murmur 55

"Jimmy DANCE!!!!"

NO, it used to be Jimi, Jimi, acha, acha.

[SincerityX]

With respect to India, but I can’t help but pin up) We are waiting for the elephant-tank troops)))

[Cheshire]

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With respect to India, but I can’t help but pin up) We are waiting for the elephant-tank troops)))

It's all envy.
All the same, in biotechnology, the Indians go their own way.

[SincerityX]

Of course envy! I would also ride on such a bullshit)))

[Cheshire]

Camels - this is so, between times. They paint dogs like tigers so that the monkeys are afraid ...)))

[SincerityX]

Hah, the need for invention is cunning :)

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[Waterways 672]

The Germans had elephant tank troops. Self-propelled guns.
Developed on the basis of the "Tiger" design "Porsche" (originally called "Ferdinand", named after the creator - Ferdinand Porsche), self-propelled guns "Elephant" (elephant) became one of the first armored combat vehicles with a long-barreled 88-mm anti-aircraft gun.

[The black]

No, seriously. There are mountains on the border sections between India and China, India and Pakistan. So the use of camels as a traction force when transporting mortars is not completely meaningless.

[SincerityX]

Yes, not only mortars, for some reason it seems to me that a camel and a gun will completely drag itself away. The only problem is that if it gets into the truck, it will go further, but the camel can suffer ..

[Leshak]

...There are mountains on the border between India and China, India and Pakistan, and quite high. So the use of camels as a traction force when transporting mortars is quite for itself ....

I have never met a camel in the mountains (they are ships of the desert), in the mountains donkeys and mules are draft power.

[former soldier]

There are shootings of Indian military parades of the 60s of the last century, and elephants participated there in orderly rows. Probably quite suitable for infantry in the jungle. The terrain is hilly and overgrown, and the elephant is a smart animal - it knows where it will pass and where it will not.

[Silver99]

A camel will become a stutterer and will get diarrhea if you fire a mortar from it, for this the Toyota was adapted long ago, then it’s better to train elephants, although Indians have their own quirks.

[dmi.pris1]

As for the stutterer, I don’t know. But it will run away for sure. And not every Toyota will go off-road yet, but this devil will trample, and even how he will trample

[Alexander Salenko]

The donkey has a large cross-country ability, four-wheel drive, leather interior.

[dmi.pris1]

And a leather horn. Both bridges are non-switchable ...

[former soldier]

A camel will become a stutterer and get diarrhea if you fire a mortar from it,

Rather, the mortar will be dropped and trampled to death. There are precedents. Vicious and strong animal.

[Introvert]

Indians know a lot about perversions, after all, the authors of a well-known book for adults with the letter K.

[Fisherman]

There, in addition to camels in the army, there are elephants, and buffaloes and ... flowers always! Such is the army, most often fighting with sticks and collecting collections of weapons from all over the world thanks to its corruption! These are definitely not going to fight much!

[former soldier]

There, in addition to camels in the army, there are elephants, and buffaloes and ... flowers always! Such is the army, most often fighting with sticks and collecting collections of weapons from all over the world thanks to its corruption! These are definitely not going to fight much!

I present the scene. The general, all decorated with flowers, gives the order and the soldiers begin to sing and dance. Busy Indian women with a spot on their foreheads join them.

[ivan1979nkl]

the main thing is that there are no donkeys in the leadership of the army

[storm]

camel cavalry performs ceremonial functions and is an obligatory participant in all solemn parades in the country.

In India, ceremonial functions are performed by camels, and in Russia, Almaty, Barberries, Boomerangs, Kurgans.....
At least the Indians did not "saw" hundreds of billions of budget rubles into camels, like Russian officials under the guise of developing new technology ....

[Nexcom]

and screw 152 mm onto a camel weakly? Jimmy, Jimmy - acha, acha!!

PS Tryndos, there the camel will be blown away from the recoil ....

[Arbeiternegast]

Camel in the desert is the best! You can’t carry a mortar and bk on your own, but the equipment requires fuel and lubricants and maintenance. Yes, technical skills are required. A cheap means of transportation and transportation in the desert.

[Nexcom]

Camel fuel and lubricants are useless. This is a camel.

[Alexander Salenko]

Yeah, but the camel is completely autonomous and you don’t need to be able to handle it or what? This is not a rather stupid brute, and if he doesn’t like something, you’ll force him to do it.

[Paul Siebert]

If I had such a mustache - I would not work!

[GELEZNII_KAPUT]

Camels and AKs, a terrible force, the circus nervously smokes on the sidelines, you can mow loot in the resort area with such demonstrations!

[Arbeiternegast]

Yeah, in Sochi, on the beach: "Quito has not yet managed, photo 500 rubles, tomorrow we are leaving for India")))

[Volzhanin64]

Well now China tremble with fear. How can they compete with such a threat from India

[Leshak]

The combat camels were dressed in special camouflage blankets and carried not only military personnel armed with assault rifles, but also small mortars.

Why isn’t the ukroführer begging for this superweapon yet? Urgently put a camel prodigy in ukrostan! And start calling the kids camels!

[sergo1914]

The photo is a collection of oxymorons. Then ours also needs to be on bears with anti-tank rifles. Feed the drill bears with caviar and play Tchaikovsky on the balalaikas. Whatever hurts

[Mint Gingerbread]

Okay with this zoo, but why stick out your elbow to your ear when grabbing a weapon

[AC130 Gunship]

There is no particularly strong difference. Dolphins serve in Crimea...

[ASM]

The Indian military-industrial complex presents the Dromedary light tank, which has no analogues in the world. Low weight, high cross-country ability, mobility, endurance, low consumption of low-grade fuel - this is not a complete list of the advantages of the new technology ...

[Raccoon Raccoon]

I don’t know about dromedaries, but Bactrians are still those bastards! As a child, living in Rudnik (now Satpaev) of the Kazakh SSR, he was repeatedly spat upon. Once a neighbor's goat saved me from trampling by bravely speaking out against a hunchbacked brawler (who was wandering around the village). Stab him a couple of times in the belly while I roared under the fence. No wonder I treated her with a cabbage leaf! Grandma then poured me into the lower hemispheres, and my mother added ... In general, I don’t like corns.

[Fizik13]

India showed camel cavalry with mortars at a military parade

And what did you want to ride in the mountains on the Hummers?
That's right, in the chronicles of the Second World War, they showed how a convoy, bypasses, mountain guns (disassembled) and mortars were transported through the mountains on horseback.
Camels, horses, donkeys, eventually llamas in the foothills of the Andes.

[Egor53]

We urgently need to arrange the supply of combat camels to Ukraine.

[UAZ 452]

Another lovers of parades and other show, and such lovers that our biathletes and analogues sigh with envy. For such an army, the main thing is that there should be no war. With all other tasks, she will cope with a bang.

[kamakama]

A little over 100 years ago, gas masks for horses and dogs were quite industrially manufactured. There were a little fewer of them at the front. Today we laugh at these photos
We also looked with tenderness at the trench battles of the First World War and thought that this would definitely not happen again. However... Artillery is again the god of war, and the ability to dig is more important than the ability to shoot. So don't hesitate. Mountain units are still equipped with weapons, the main characteristic of which is the possibility of transporting TOTAL MTO in packs, including guns