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Mahindra Marksman: Tough Trip
Bengaluru Police SWAT Team's Mahindra Marksman
Cinema, in more than one ways reflects what is going on in our society. In the war movies, we see vehicles with bulletproof abilities many times. In present times, we see armed hummers running across the battlefields providing the soldiers with enough facilities to efficiently handle tough situations. And their presentation is so intense that the Hummers have become America’s favourite vehicle for the military purposes. While the American army in Iraq uses this vehicle unabashedly, Indians doesn’t seem to be much impressed by it as it is evident that Indians refrain from the import of Hummers in any case. In fact, even the siblings of Hummer which are widely used across the globe by armed forces are still invisible from the Indian army bases.
India just doesn’t import such vehicle even in the harder to terrains such as to fight the terrorists from across the border or the armies and even the Maoists from within. However, this doesn’t mean that Indian armed forces are not efficient when it comes to saving the borders and using such heavy duty vehicles to a maximum effect. Hummer may be world’s most popular military ally vehicle, but Indian army goes with the Indian automaker giant Mahindra and Mahindra’s Marksman. The vehicle is bulletproof, insanely light for a vehicle of this calibre, capsule based and effectively armoured which provides optimum security for the army personnel across the country. The vehicle does a very fine job of protecting the Indian Army from the attacks of high intensity such as grenade attacks, machine gun attacks and other highly dangerous attacks by the enemy groups.
Other than the army, the Para military forces such as BSF, CRPF and even the police forces have been taking help of the vehicle to tackle their enemies in a very efficient manner against the grenade attacks and the small arm fire attacks. And the flexibility of the vehicle is evident further from the very fact that Marksman is adaptable when it comes to anti-terrorism operations and the standard war fares.
The vehicle proudly proclaims to be ‘made in India’ and is a very exceptional product of Mahindra and Mahindra’s Defence Systems and protects the personnel from the Indian army and other forces to tackle the enemy in the highly sensitive areas and the most difficult of terrains. The ‘Transformer’ is generally used for the Special Forces operations and acts very beautifully for the quick reaction teams , protects the important convoys, used in the mobile check points and is also used for armed reconnaissance. It is pretty much amazing for uses in desert like areas with its wide viewing angles and owing to these feature the personnel can easily spot any roadblocks in the way and gives the soldier a very comfortable space in order to use firearms whenever needed. The air conditioning feature in the vehicle doesn’t come standard, but it can be installed on request. This is the first of its kind venture in private defence manufacturing department which has received the ISO-9000-2000 certification.
Source:- Mahindra Marksman: Tough Trip -The New Indian Express
