Navy and coast guard acquire remote controlled Israeli 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine gun manufactured in India

[INS_Vikrant]

Manufactured under Transfer of Technology agreement from Israeli weapon maker Elbit Systems, the guns are meant for marine applications and can remotely engage targets.

Navy, Coast Guard get new 12.7mm M2 heavy machine guns

Manufactured under Transfer of Technology agreement from Israeli weapon maker Elbit Systems, the guns are meant for marine applications and can remotely engage targets.

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Tiruchirapalli-based Ordnance Factory on Saturday handed over a total of 25 12.7mm M2 NATO standard heavy machine guns or the stabilised remote control gun system to the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard, amidst its restructuring process.
The guns are equipped with an inbuilt charge-coupled device camera, thermal image, and a laser range finder to observe and track targets through the day and night operations.

"OFB Tiruchirapalli has also created modern state-of-art assembly and testing facilities for the indigenous manufacture of the SRCG system," OFB said in a statement.

On the occasion, Director General of Naval Armament KSC Iyer, Director General Ordnance Factories and Chairman of OFB CS Vishwakarma were present.

Last year, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched the weapon through video-conferencing as part of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.

Elbit Systems had won the contract worth $173 million. The contract will be executed over a five-year period.
The SRCG family is a third-generation, multi-purpose weapon system for small and mid-calibre weapons.

Since 2016, India has been negotiating to buy 747 12.7 mm guns from Elbit Systems.

Ammunition for the 12.7 mm RWSs would be manufactured at the OFB plant in Kolkata.

 

[vishwambhar]

Awesome fire power for coast guard....

 

[Bossman]

Awesome fire power for coast guard....

So India cannot manufacture Heavy Machine guns and has to import them from Israel? The article only talks about assembly in India. BTW the M2 was designed in 1919 and went into US service in 1933 and India imported it from Israel in 2021. Great progress for India I must say.

BTW I checked Indian Ordinance Board’s website. India does not produce a 12.7 mm or 50 Cal MG and they want to fight China. Even Pakistan produces two types of 12.7 mm HMG including a locally designed one.

 

[vishwambhar]

So India cannot manufacture Heavy Machine guns and has to import them from Israel? The article only talks about assembly in India. BTW the M2 was designed in 1919 and went into US service in 1933 and India imported it from Israel in 2021. Great progress for India I must say.

BTW I checked Indian Ordinance Board’s website. India does not produce a 12.7 mm or 50 Cal MG and they want to fight China. Even Pakistan produces two types of 12.7 mm HMG including a locally designed one.

It's not like India can't make it's own good heavy machine gun..... But in India major weapons systems are grasped more faster and less priority is given to small arms....

Otherwise when we can make Nukes, ICBMs, Boomers, aircraft carrier and warships, attack choppers and can have such a big success in space program making machine gun is actually not a big thing for us.... Just we need to give it a priority......

 

[Bossman]

It's not like India can't make it's own good heavy machine gun..... But in India major weapons systems are grasped more faster and less priority is given to small arms....

Otherwise when we can make Nukes, ICBMs, Boomers, aircraft carrier and warships, attack choppers and can have such a big success in space program making machine gun is actually not a big thing for us.... Just we need to give it a priority......

but HMG is bread and butter of any army. Indian priorities are a little messed up. But then India also cannot make its basic, primary or advance trainer aircraft or a decent assault rifle or encrypted radios or artillery shells, or winter clothing (it had to import second hand US army winter gear for Ladakh) It’s INSAS rifle is a total failure and is being replaced by importing off the shelf American and Russian rifles and Israeli light machine guns. Your boomers or aircraft carriers will not be of much help if the Chinese continue their salami slicing in Ladakh or Kashmir erupts again.