DRDO's New Multi-caliber weapon system to replace INSAS

[Chola warrior]

DRDO is set to unveil the multi-caliber individual weapon system (MCIWS) being develped by the Armaments Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), Pune, which will allow operators to alternatively fire 7.62mm, 5.56mm and 6.8 mm rounds by changing the barrel group, breech block & magazine. Provision has also been made to mount an indigenous 40 mm Under Barrel grenade Launcher (UBGL) (pictured above) capable of firing programmable air-burst rounds. CCD camera day sight and thermal imaging night sight can also be mounted on its picatinny rail system to engage targets in day & night conditions. The weapon body is machined with Aluminium alloy and a metal insert based 30 Round engineering plastic magazine and adjustable butt are also featured. Ambidextrous features for cocking, lever change and magazine change have also been incorporated.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

DRDO Multi Caliber Rifle Prototype (7.62mm, 5.56mm, and 6.8mm)

 

[drunken-monke]

Yeh huyee na bat...

 

[Chola warrior]

DRDO Multi Caliber Rifle Prototype (7.62mm, 5.56mm, and 6.8mm)

This is sexy now IA has no way to deny this beauty..It must have been performed well in trials. That's why they are displaying it now.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[Secularpakistani]

cool but it looks like a close copy of AK-12.

 

[MilSpec]

cool but it looks like a close copy of AK-12.

does it now, with a machined receiver, it looks closer to the ar platform, with SCAR ergonomics and AK styled gas tube. For 5.56 caliber it retains Insas's barrel

 

[Chola warrior]

cool but it looks like a close copy of AK-12.

Only butt, P-trail and hand grips are kinda similar. Otherwise the whole system seems different starting from barrell

MCIWS also seems to be short piston operated

 

[Secularpakistani]

Only butt, P-trail and hand grips are kinda similar. Otherwise the whole system seems different starting from barrell

MCIWS also seems to be short piston operated

Also i have seen the concept of multi caliber so far only in AK-12.
Anyway congrats those insas rifles are too old and antique looking.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Also i have seen the concept of multi caliber so far only in AK-12.
Anyway congrats those insas rifles are too old and antique looking.

AK 12 isnt multi caliber capable as far as I know. There are like 5-7 rifles and growing with that feature.

 

[Secularpakistani]

AK 12 isnt multi caliber capable as far as I know. There are like 5-7 rifles and growing with that feature.

Read about it AK-12 is a multi caliber assault rifle
AK-12 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And sorry i can,t access youtube.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Read about it AK-12 is a multi caliber assault rifle
AK-12 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And sorry i can,t access youtube.

Thanks for the correction.

And sorry i can,t access youtube.

It's a amateur video of it -

 

[Secularpakistani]

Thanks for the correction.



It's a amateur video of it -

Also can you tell me the unit price of your new rifle ? May be i can get some through black market in our north west I am shooting and weapon enthusiast and have plenty of guns in my locker.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Also can you tell me the unit price of your new rifle ? May be i can get some through black market in our north west I am shooting and weapon enthusiast and have plenty of guns in my locker.

This thing is a prototype, and the gun really isn't fully realized yet. Modifications, etc will occur for sure. So it's hard to gauge pricing now.

And I doubt Indian weapons will get their way all the way there.

 

[Chola warrior]

Also can you tell me the unit price of your new rifle ? May be i can get some through black market in our north west I am shooting and weapon enthusiast and have plenty of guns in my locker.

Probably in the range of other foreign rifles. Since IA also considering other rifles such as ARX 160, galil ACE, CZ bren, seems they are willing to spend pretty amount on individual system. Its a part of F-INSAS.

INSAS had restrictions of product cost. That's why DRDO didn't incorporate some features in it.