Learning from its 60-hour gunbattle during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the National Security Guard (NSG) is set to upgrade its equipment and weapons profile.

Having moved to procure body-worn video and audio bugs, mini remotely operated vehicles and a real-time x-ray viewing system almost immediately after the Mumbai attacks, this elite commando force is now in the process of procuring 128 night-vision devices for its SIG (SWAT) assault rifles, eight laser listening devices and 146 units of light support weapons.

Sources said procurement of this equipment was at the top of the force’s agenda following an in-depth analysis of the force’s strengths and weaknesses during the “debriefing” following the Mumbai operations. While NSG officials maintained that some of this equipment was already available with the force, they admitted that there was fresh impetus to procure the best available, and in sufficient numbers.