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Smart tools for NSG commandos tackling Mumbai situation
Mumbai, Nov 29 (PTI) National Security Guard (NSG)
commandos, who executed the operations in the country's
longest terrorist siege here in the recent past, are specially
equipped with a set of "hooligan tools", a "smart dagger" and
some are fluent in English to accomplish "Operation Black
Tornado".
"Looking at the requirement of this particular
operation, the boys were equipped with a brand new set of
hooligan tools including special spanners, screw-drivers,
nuts, bolts and some hardware jacks which are helpful making a
surprise entry into a room," a senior security official said.
Few commandos, who are fluent in English, were also
embedded in different teams that went inside Taj Hotel, Oberoi
(Trident) and Nariman House.
All these places had foreigners and dignitaries for
which English-speaking commandos were useful to establish
contact with the hostages while evacuating them, the official
said.
This was done on the ground, right when the offensive
was being planned here, he said.
"The places where the NSG had operated were all large
residential complexes which obviously would have many doors
and entrances. In the worst cases, hostages will have to be
evacuated forcibly and the hardware jacks would help the
commandos break open and unlock the doors," he said.
The commandos are trained to "neutralise the enemy
immediately", which means shooting right in between the eyes
of the terrorists.
The NSG men also had smart daggers with for one-to-one
combat.
"The daggers are of such high precision that it is said
that it is a pleasure to die of its strike," a source said.
Not every time the technique of blasting a room door
through "door frame charges" suffices where a door is blown
using mild explosives.
The commandos, dressed in all black, wore NIJ-Level 3
(National Institute of Justice, US) bullet-proof jackets which
have armour plates on the front and the back, groin pads
fastened with straps, a senior army official who coordinated
with the NSG said.
The jackets come in three volume variants, viz, small
(5.8 kg), medium (six kg) and large (6.2 kg).
The usage of the different variants depends on the
nature of operation -- swift or long drawn.
The commandos and the officials who carried out frontal
offensives at all the three places did not had any
communication with their formations right behind them as they
had no walkie-talkie sets or cochlear microphones.
"It is only the sign language that they communicated
with. Microphones or any other mode of communication disturb,
ruling out the possibility of a silent and deadly execution."
While the commandos are not supposed to carry
refreshments during such operations, they had MP-5 guns with a
bore of around 4.7 mm, AK series assault rifles, Automatic
Grenade Launchers (AGL's), Under Barrel Grenade Launcher
(UBGL) magazines and handful of grenades.
Night vision devices were also deployed during the
operations. PTI NES
PMR
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commandos, who executed the operations in the country's
longest terrorist siege here in the recent past, are specially
equipped with a set of "hooligan tools", a "smart dagger" and
some are fluent in English to accomplish "Operation Black
Tornado".
"Looking at the requirement of this particular
operation, the boys were equipped with a brand new set of
hooligan tools including special spanners, screw-drivers,
nuts, bolts and some hardware jacks which are helpful making a
surprise entry into a room," a senior security official said.
Few commandos, who are fluent in English, were also
embedded in different teams that went inside Taj Hotel, Oberoi
(Trident) and Nariman House.
All these places had foreigners and dignitaries for
which English-speaking commandos were useful to establish
contact with the hostages while evacuating them, the official
said.
This was done on the ground, right when the offensive
was being planned here, he said.
"The places where the NSG had operated were all large
residential complexes which obviously would have many doors
and entrances. In the worst cases, hostages will have to be
evacuated forcibly and the hardware jacks would help the
commandos break open and unlock the doors," he said.
The commandos are trained to "neutralise the enemy
immediately", which means shooting right in between the eyes
of the terrorists.
The NSG men also had smart daggers with for one-to-one
combat.
"The daggers are of such high precision that it is said
that it is a pleasure to die of its strike," a source said.
Not every time the technique of blasting a room door
through "door frame charges" suffices where a door is blown
using mild explosives.
The commandos, dressed in all black, wore NIJ-Level 3
(National Institute of Justice, US) bullet-proof jackets which
have armour plates on the front and the back, groin pads
fastened with straps, a senior army official who coordinated
with the NSG said.
The jackets come in three volume variants, viz, small
(5.8 kg), medium (six kg) and large (6.2 kg).
The usage of the different variants depends on the
nature of operation -- swift or long drawn.
The commandos and the officials who carried out frontal
offensives at all the three places did not had any
communication with their formations right behind them as they
had no walkie-talkie sets or cochlear microphones.
"It is only the sign language that they communicated
with. Microphones or any other mode of communication disturb,
ruling out the possibility of a silent and deadly execution."
While the commandos are not supposed to carry
refreshments during such operations, they had MP-5 guns with a
bore of around 4.7 mm, AK series assault rifles, Automatic
Grenade Launchers (AGL's), Under Barrel Grenade Launcher
(UBGL) magazines and handful of grenades.
Night vision devices were also deployed during the
operations. PTI NES
PMR
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