French Army soldiers march in India, at Republic Day 2016!

[Yaduveer]

One thing i have to point out here
We need good cameras and very good official pictures.
Have a look at this picture above. Doordarshan needs to invest big time on this. Look at the COLORS and background. Even we have very colorful contingents but rarely we get high HD quality pics.

Have you ever been to New Delhi in Month of January ? In winter months,fog on some days is so heavy that you can not even see a full sized truck at distance mere 20 metre.

Cameras of DD chanel is the one the most sophisticated in the country. Indeed many has praised the video quality. But Unfortunately camera can not clear damn Fog !

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-01-24/news/58408265_1_cameras-republic-day-rajpath

I agree with you,the most important thing is that they paraded at your national's day in a sign of strong friendship between the Indians and the French. It was an honor to be the first army to participe in that parade. And glad that during Shakti2016 the two armies could work together and learned each other's experience.

@Abingdonboy @PARIKRAMA @Yaduveer

Be it Scorpene submarines,Alstom ,Airbus planes,Areva Nuclear Plants,Dassault,Renault cars,Arien Rockets etc. are all french companies.

I rarely heard of any hi-tech companies from Britain,I wonder what exactly they do now a days? specially when there is no East India Company anymore and no Darjiling tea and Indian cotton to sell .

 

[Dandpatta]

Someone in the military please - pray - tell me, why do we need to have the desh ki mitti skirting around the Rajpath bitumen? For heaven's sake can't our babooz think of using brown colored paver blocks instead of the loos soil "mitti" running parallel? I also saw in one of the pictures, a huge mound of "MITTI" plonked on the side. And this was ON the day of the parade !

 

[Levina]

I think it's a bit unfair to criticise the French marching contingent as a) compared to the Indian units they had only a few days to prepare in Delhi (perhaps they prepared at their home bases as the Indian units would have been doing for months) and b) they had to adopt an entirely different style to marching that they have not practiced during their entire careers (a higher tempo- 120 bps IIRC) so as to match the Indian Military marching pattern and to stick to the very strict timing.

Watch this video, it outlines in some detail the amount to planning/training that goes into this event, where they use seconds, not minuets to measure success:

@Levina @PARIKRAMA @Vauban @Koovie @ranjeet @mkb95 @Water Car Engineer @acetophenol@Taygibay @Technogaianist

Worth watching if you are interested in these sorts of things

Imagine they have to march 9Kms and that too in thick fog.
Once i saw a BSF soldier stumbling and injuring his leg during a trial run. If am not wrong most of them were 6 feet and above.
Thanks for the video, I love watching the parade and its preparation.

 

[Dandpatta]

Did you guys watch the Indian Navy band do a sort of 'drum-line' performance? I would say that was impressive given it was the first time any Indian Military Band did it. Hope they go into international competitions for drum-line.