What makes the British Army Gurkhas so feared?

What makes the British Army Gurkhas so feared?

They hail from warrior tribes, from the steep mountains of Nepal, and have gained a reputation over years of combat, that is based on their conduct in battle.

The Gurkhas are a formidable enemy, very tough, don’t surrender, fight until the last man.

Even the Japanese in WW2 where shit scared of them.

Everyone believed the Japanese to be the ‘mut’s nuts’ when it came to Jungle combat, but once the Japs saw the Gurkhas coming, they fled.

The Gurkhas carry the legendary Kukri knife, and will use this in close quarter combat, cut your limbs and head clean off. Not many people who have fought them, have lived to tell the tale.

In 2010 while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, acting Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, single-handedly defeated up-to 30 Taliban fighters, who attacked his position near Babaji in Helmand Province.

He was surrounded by the Taliban, and attacked with RPG’s and AK47’s. Believing he was about to die, he decided to take as many with him as possible.

He fired 250 rounds from his own machine gun, then 180 from his rifle, then threw 17 hand grenades, and set off a claymore mine, before beating the last fighter to death with the tripod of his machine gun.

He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, but, this is all in a days work, for a Gurkha.