New Delhi: Marching Contingencies Army soldiers will display how their uniforms and rifles evolved since the 1950s in the Republican Day Parade this year.
The mechanical column will also include “mixed systems and vintage and modern weapons platforms”, Delhi’s head, General General Alok Kacker said on Sunday.
In six Army contingents, the Rajput Army of regiments will be seen wearing a uniform in the 1950s and carrying Vintage Rifles Lee-Enfield .303.
They will be followed by Assam Resimen forces who wear uniforms from the 1960s along with Rifles .303.
Jammu & Kashmir Infantry will be the next concern with the Mandiri 1970s uniform and 7.62mm.
The army of the infantry of Sikh Infantry and Army Ordnance, in turn, will wear a green olive uniform today along with a senset of 5.56mm (Indian small weapons system).
New combat uniforms with “digital disorder patterns”, which were launched for the first time during the Army Day Parade on January 15, in turn, will be imposed by the Command of Parasut Regiment with the Israeli Tar-21 Taw-21 assault rifle.
There will be a total of 16 contingents line up.
Six of the soldiers, each of the Navy and IAF, four of the central armed police forces, each of the Delhi police and national service schemes, and two of the National Cadet Corps, said Maj Gen Kacker.
The mechanical column will cover weapons and vintage platforms such as the Centurion tank, the HT-16 electronic war system and a tiger cat missile system to modern such as Arjun Tank, Shakti Taran System and Akash Surface-to-Air Missiles.