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India-made automatic rifle production stuck in red tape

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INSAS Standard Rifle - It is a gas operated assault rifle. It can be fired in single round or three-round burst mode. A new model with black furniture incorporating full-auto mode is also being introduced. A telescopic sight or a passive night sight can be mounted on it. It can take NATO standard 5.56 × 45 mm SS109 and M193 ammunition. It comes with a bayonet. It has a mount point for the ARDE 40 mm Under Barrel Grenade Launcher, along with a gas-block for launching grenades and grenade iron-sights. The flash suppressor has a blank-firing adaptor. It also has a foldable butt version. Current generation rifles being made are outfitted with black plastic furniture with some improvements in its construction.

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Kalantak and Excalibur - Both are lighter versions of the INSAS, designed for close quarter combat. They both have foldable butts and picatinny rails to mount standard sights or opto-electronic instruments.

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LMG - The LMG differs from the AR in possessing a longer and heavier barrel with revised rifling, and a bipod. The LMG version uses 30 round magazines and can also accept the 20 round INSAS AR magazine. This model fires in semi and full-auto. Current generation LMGs being made are outfitted with black plastic furniture with some improvements in its construction. It also has a foldable-butt version.




Maybe it's the LMG? It was the latest one in the series!

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The last four pics are fanboy photoshops!
 
It is customary that the designing country's military adopts a new weapons platform and upgrades it in phases.

India is the only country where armed forces want a STAR TREK level of technology and shoestring price while wanting the the product to be delivered earlier than time, AND they will not even support the effort by following up with defence agencies.

What idiocy is this?

This stupid attitude of all the three armed forces is what costs us R&D and forces us to import.


There should be a rule that the military should first induct in small quantities to test the weapon's daily performance while using advanced foreign equipment as back ups. Once the mistakes are ironed out and the platform matures with upgrades, induct it in mass numbers.

Unless and until it is forced on the tri-services this disease of importing at the drop of a hat will continue for another 100 years.
Bro what are you talking about? The IA have the INSAS in service (an Indian rifle) and are waiting for the MCIWS (an Indian rifle), why should they start inducting an updated version of the INSAS when they will soon be replacing the INSAS altogether? That would be a colossal waste of money and no organisation (either a military or business) would do that.
 
On the contrary, having a common rifle firing different calibres will ease the logistics. Right now the IA has to supply both AK and INSAS parts (along with their ammo) to the relevant units, having the MCIWS means they would only need the logistics and support infrastructure for a common rifle.
Not to mention train soldiers on firing and maintaining different kind of rifles.
 
Bro what are you talking about? The IA have the INSAS in service (an Indian rifle) and are waiting for the MCIWS (an Indian rifle), why should they start inducting an updated version of the INSAS when they will soon be replacing the INSAS altogether? That would be a colossal waste of money and no organisation (either a military or business) would do that.

I was referring to the tender on carbines which involved FAL, Tavor and Czeska CZ-805 BREN.

Similarly, reflecting on the 'refusal' of Arjun tanks by the Army 3 years ago, the rejection of inducting Tejas and developing it phase by phase, rejection of Dhanush artillery system, Navy's rejection of HAL Dhruv sea variant etc.

Not about just INSAS.
 

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