Infantry to get foreign rifles, others to get ‘made in India’

[Indian Jatt]

I think India rifle has a much bigger quality issue than just a paint job

You know when India decides to do something it does much better then the world and once India decides to build a rifle it will, like India built its own cryogenic engines, its ballistic missiles, its satellite constellation, its own BMD, its own rockets and the list goes on....I dont want to drag this topic but when someone supports you, you feel like putting everything at stake and build this one system that your customer likes, but in case of IOF its own army doesnt likes indigenous systems, so the problem is with the mindset and not with the rifle...

 

[Makarena]

You know when India decides to do something it does much better then the world and once India decides to build a rifle it will, like India built its own cryogenic engines, its ballistic missiles, its satellite constellation, its own BMD, its own rockets and the list goes on....I dont want to drag this topic but when someone supports you, you feel like putting everything at stake and build this one system that your customer likes, but in case of IOF its own army doesnt likes indigenous systems, so the problem is with the mindset and not with the rifle...

So you're saying it was Indian army's fault for not wanting indigenous system, not the rifle?

 

[Indian Jatt]

So you're saying it was Indian army's fault for not wanting indigenous system, not the rifle?

Hmm after user trails and passing the test, yes Surely it was the army....

 

[Makarena]

Hmm after user trails and passing the test, yes Surely it was the army....

passing the test? where in the article did it say the rifle pass the test? taking the test isn't the same as passing the test you know

 

[Indian Jatt]

passing the test? where in the article did it say the rifle pass the test? taking the test isn't the same as passing the test you know

Yes our rifle passed all tests in desert condition, mountainous terrain and also in jungle terrain and that too without any issues where other rifles like beretta, H&k and many other rifles failed...

 

[Makarena]

Yes our rifle passed all tests in desert condition, mountainous terrain and also in jungle terrain and that too without any issues where other rifles like beretta, H&k and many other rifles failed...

whose test? Indian army or the manufacturer?

 

[Indian Jatt]

whose test? Indian army or the manufacturer?

IA...

 

[Makarena]

IA...

yeah not according to this articla

The Army decided to reject the 7.62x51 mm guns built by the Rifle Factory Ishapore after they miserably failed the firing tests last week

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...uilt-rifles-for-second-year-in-a-row-4715758/

and the fact that the army didn't want their frontline troops using this rifle, speak for the quality.

 

[Indian Jatt]

yeah not according to this articla



and the fact that the army didn't want their frontline troops using this rifle, speak for the quality.

I think the outdated article speaks more about the excalibur and not the MCIWS.....iam talking about MCIWS that is being further modified after inputs from the army, this will replace the INSAS...

 

[Makarena]

MCIWS?

didn't they cancel the project?

Two years ago, the DRDO closed down a promising project for a Multi Caliber Individual Weapon Project (MCIWS) - an assault rifle which could be chambered to fire three types of ammunition types: 5.56, 7.62 and 6.8 mm - when the Army cancelled its bizarre order for a multi-caliber weapon.

https://www.dailyo.in/politics/indi...pons-cag-ofb-make-in-india/story/1/18549.html

and it seems the Indian army wasn't that enthusiastic either