In May 2019, as soon as India released photos of the "Prahar Victory Military Exercise", it was scolded by the public for being bloody, because the Indian Army welded a sun umbrella above the tank turret for officers to cool off while showing off their might.
You know, India has been trying to eliminate the problem of officers' "privileges" in recent years, and this operation is obviously a crime against the wind, but in the face of such a situation, an Indian military expert said that many countries will weld sun umbrellas on tanks, so the Indian Army should not be "treated differently", but who knows, after this remark, he was scolded even more fiercely, some people claimed, it seems that this officer does not know why the people scold him.
Today, I will talk to you about why the Indian Army causes dissatisfaction among the people? And in addition to welding the parasol, what peculiar operations do they have?
In 2009, some low-level Indians staged a series of demonstrations in various states to obtain legal rights for the Indian proletarians while at the same time attacking Indian bureaucrats and capitalists. Among them, because the Indian states have a strong autonomy, they also have independent armed forces, and because of this, the demonstrators did gain great initiative at the beginning of the event.
In November of that year, they stopped a train carrying goods and distributed supplies to poor civilians in major cities such as Delhi, while demonstrators, assisted by the armed forces of Bihar, stormed government buildings and demanded that local officials rewrite a bill on labor contracts.
From a certain point of view, although the means of this demonstration are relatively "tough", but it can also reflect the dissatisfaction of the people at the bottom of India with the status quo, however, in the official view, the marchers are obviously poked at the "pain of India's development", and their behavior is tantamount to "rebellion", so after persuasion was fruitless, India sent troops and launched a military operation called "green hunting".
However, the marchers are ordinary people after all, in the face of the regular army, naturally defeated, it is worth noting that in the "green hunt" operation, the Indian government issued the order "rather than wrongly killed", so as the confrontation escalated, a large number of civilians were killed, not only that, the Indian Army also captured many "leaders" and tortured them with special means.
In this way, after several months of vigorous demonstrations, it disappeared, of course, the Indian people at the bottom still did not get the benefits they deserved, while the Indian Army, because of its outstanding performance in military operations against the people, they not only received more funding, but later, India also commemorated the green hunting operation, specially launched the "Prahar Victory" military exercise mainly for the purpose of security warfare and anti-terrorism.
It is not difficult to see that the exercise is obviously aimed at the Indian people, so no matter how beautiful the Prahal exercise is, the people do not recognize it from the bottom of their hearts.
In November 2019, the 10th Prajal Victory exercise came to an end. In this exercise, the Indian Army dispatched more than 25,000 soldiers, and tanks and aircraft artillery were even more playful, but after India released photos of the exercise, the public scolded them for welding sun umbrellas on T90 tanks.
From a certain point of view, although welding a casual parasol on a tank symbolizing force does seem out of place on the surface, in fact, this operation does have military use, and in this case, India can only be regarded as a learner, because as early as 2010, the US Army made such attempts.
At that time, the United States, which had experienced several security battles such as the Gulf War, deeply felt the influence of tanks in security warfare, so they added a "tactical parasol" to the M1A1 main battle tank. On the one hand, parasols are able to protect on-board equipment from the scorching sun, thus working in a range suitable for the temperature; On the other hand, enemy snipers often shoot high-tech instruments located in tank turrets, while the parasols used by the US military use the Doppler spectral effect, which allows it to have a certain interference effect on enemy snipers to ensure the combat effectiveness of tanks.
Just after the United States made this operation, including Russia, Japan and other countries, parasols with special functions were welded to tanks, from this point of view, India is completely following the trend this time, so in this case, why do they cause dissatisfaction among the people?
It turned out that although India welded the parasol, their purpose was not to increase combat effectiveness at all.
On the one hand, its sun umbrella does not have any high-tech ingredients, and it is completely the most ordinary product, so that the officer does not bask in the sun when he sits on the turret to show off his might; On the other hand, according to Indian media, the Indian Army originally did not want to weld the sun umbrella, just 2 days before the exercise, after learning that the Minister of Defense would be on the scene, they reacted.
However, the most angry thing in India is not just because of the welding of sun umbrellas, sharp-eyed people have found that the army has also welded leather sofas to the turret of tanks. It is worth noting that perhaps to hide their eyes, they deliberately painted the sofa milky white to blend in with the tank paint, but in fact, it was made of ostrich skin.
According to Indian media reports, these leather sofas were imported from high-end custom companies in Sweden, and the price of a single one was about $30,000, and India installed 6 leather sofas on a total of 3 T90 tanks in this exercise, which belonged to the 3 officers present, as well as their secretaries.
You know, ostrich leather seats have always belonged to the category of luxury, and the appearance of such "objects" on tanks obviously touched the most sensitive nerves of the people at the bottom, because from a certain point of view, although India has been saying in recent years that they have eliminated the "privileges" that officers have, the operation of adding leather sofas obviously shows from the side that privileges have not been eradicated, but have become more serious.
From a historical point of view, although India completed its independence in 1947, it has not been able to get rid of a series of problems left by the British colonial period, the first of which is the quality of the army. For a long time, Britain practiced the "divide and rule" management concept, and among them, the British have always believed that the more literate soldiers are, the more reactionary, so they often choose illiterate people who cannot read big words when selecting soldiers.
It is worth noting that in order to enhance the enthusiasm of the people at the bottom to join the army, the British specially set up a "military caste", which can make the bottom people who join the army get a class breakthrough, and at the same time, they also give ordinary soldiers the welfare of feeding their stomachs, so many Indian people at the bottom regard joining the army as the ultimate goal of life.
According to British requirements, Indian soldiers will forever lose the right to education once they serve, and such "imprisonment" will accompany them throughout their lives, time to the modern era, although India later experienced independence, but they did not repeal this law, and because of this, even today, there is still a large number of illiterate people in the Indian army.
Of course, for India, the lack of culture of soldiers is obviously to facilitate "control", officers naturally have to be well educated, and according to the current situation of the Indian army, officers have even appeared a certain "hereditary" nature, in other words, many young officers' fathers have been deeply engaged in the army, and this is the reason why Indian soldiers and officers belong to two classes.
As for why the Indian Army has more such chaos, it is because other branches of the military have a higher degree of dependence on informatization and knowledge, and soldiers with low education level are not competent, so only the Indian Army will become the hardest hit area of "sycophancy".
Let's go back to the question at the beginning, the Prahar victory military exercise was obviously held smoothly, but the Indian Army's operation of customizing leather sofas for senior officials is obviously touching the mold of the people, not to mention, the purpose of the exercise is to target the people at the bottom under the banner of counter-terrorism, so from this point of view, no matter how many weapons India shows in the Prahar victory military exercise and how successful the performance is, at best, it is just a carnival of the "upper class", and in the eyes of the people, the harder the army works , the more insulting it is to them.