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PHILIPPINES BEATS CHINA
(Myanmar picks UDMC over NORINCO in precision rifle selection trials.)
By: Gilbert Felongco
The Myanmar Army has declared UDMC rifles "winner" over NORINCO brand of CQ-A and CQ-B rifles following a nearly two years selection process participated in by several other manufacturers including Chinese military rifle maker, NORINCO.
Prior to this, Myanmar, or the Union of Burma had been scouting for military grade rifle makers that would produce rifles that may deliver better performance particularly in the aspect of ACCURACY. The Philippines-based firm responded by making its rifles--
-the F5-DGIS and F5-PVAR--- available for the selection process.
The trials pitted UDMC rifles against the Myanmar Army’s current use rifles and also the much cheaper but apparently lesser quality NORINCO M4 and M16 rifles.
Less than two years after the Myanmar Army announced that it is opening its test and evaluation, UDMC’s rifle had been chosen by the Southeast Asian nation’s army as technically and operationally better overall than the NORINCO M4 and M16.
“This only means that our rifles are better than anything that the Chinese can put up against it,” Gene Cariño, United Defense Manufacturing Corporation’s (UDMC) CEO said, adding that the Myanmar Army opted for the UDMC’s F5-DGIS and F5-PVAR rifles rather than NORINCO’s CQ-A and CQ-B models of M4 and M16 in caliber 5.56 NATO for their special purpose precision rifle.
The Myanmar Army had subjected the UDMC rifles---the M4 and M16 format 5.56 NATO F5's--- to rigorous selection process on the basis of safety, reliability and accuracy side-by-side with NORINCO.
“The selection experts made up of MOD officials and snipers from the Myanmar Army special forces, found UDMC rifles to be of premium quality compared to its Chinese NORINCO counterparts,” Cariño said.
UDMC Vice President International, retired Lt General Roland Detabali together with retired Major Philip Manlapaz had brought UDMC rifles to the selection process in Myanmar and spent sometime in Nay Pyi Taw demonstrating the quality of UDMC rifles.
“The Myanmar Army is very thorough in the tests that they had conducted, they want absolute reliability and accuracy which our rifles can definitely deliver,” Detabali said. (SEE PICTURES)
Cariño said they had proposed to the Myanmar Army to put up a manufacturing plant in Myanmar under a “Build Operate and Transfer Technology Program” and bring UDMC technology to that country.
“The Burmese are a patriotic people and they prefer to use weapons that they have produced in Myanmar and so Filipino rifle engineers from UDMC may train them, if the BOTT proposal is accepted by the Myanmar Army” he said. “We are in fact now bringing Filipino expertise in rifles making to other parts of the world,” he added.
UDMC is a 100 percent Filipino-owned privately controlled corporation research-based rifles manufacturer that has engineered and improved on the design of the M4 and M16 by incorporating their patented PVAR piston driven system that combines the strengths of the AK-47 and the M16. UDMC has developed their own Technical Data Package using design and programming softwares from Dassault Systèmes of France.
Cariño said UDMC is hoping at landing a major contract in Myanmar, possibly its biggest, in the coming years.
“Myanmar’s military is about 500,000 men and women and is three and a half times bigger than the Philippines military so you could just imagine how big a market we are aiming at, if ever,” he said.
Detabali and Manlapaz are Army Scout Rangers and had participated either as member or commander, during their respective time in service with the Philippine Army, in the annual ASEAN Armies Rifle Meet (AARM). They are veterans in the conflict with various threat groups in the Philippines.
“Having a rifle that could deliver rounds to the target with maximum reliability and accuracy and with consistency is the cutting edge in the battlefield…We know that from experience,” Manlapaz said.
UDMC rifles a few years ago passed the rigorous tests and evaluations conducted by the Philippine Army Research and Development Center, the Philippine Navy Special Operations Group, the PNP Special Action Force and the PNP Research and Development Center for its safety, reliability and accuracy.
For years, UDMC rifles had been relied upon by American and British maritime security contractors protecting international shipping against pirates prowling in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
Source:
https://defence.pk/threads/myanmar-military-economy-news-and-updates.347379/page-38#ixzz4JMORbtXH Via @zaw
