Warmtoast (your #8242),
...In 1962 I was with 99 Sqn (Britannias) and my logbook shows we flew: two flights from Sharjah to Delhi on 24th and 25th November 1962. On both flights we were fully loaded with boxed .303 rifles and ammunution...
Why so ? The gunsmiths in any town on the old NW Frontier would supply you with any quantity of SMLEs and ammo you wanted - a lot cheaper, too (home-made, but servicable - or nicked from us - and could soon whip-up a few more). [oh dear, oh dear, I forgot: they're all in
Pakistan now, aren't they ?] But surely by '62, wasn't everybody involved using the AK-47, or some local rip-off (Chinese Type 56, Indian Trichy assault rifle, etc ?)
...ISTR that our arrival to deliver supplies was covered by the Indian press and we proudly posed to reporters and cameramen as the saviours of the Indian nation brandishing the Kama Sutra!...
All I can remember were the problems of the Elephant Woman and the Rabbit Man - but we'd better not go into that !
Danny.