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  1. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    The article is nearly an year old. I believe they have finally decided to cancel the order because India is not able to produce quality ammo required for the rifle.
  2. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    Every one understands what is going on. Some choose to speak out of frustration while others remain calm. Till the selection of " The perfect rifle " continues the Jawan at the borders facing enemy every day and night suffers the most.
  3. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    Rifles are not nazuk. They require discipline to maintain. Discipline is the key word here.
  4. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    No gun is good enough for IA in this universe. Unless the makers take them to a trip for testing. If high recoil was the issue that they realised after buying what have saheb log been testing for past 15 years?
  5. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    Hopefully..the deal gets scrapped.
  6. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    Indian troops with SIG rifels at LOC.
  7. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    One thing that is very commendable about US arms industry is the speed with which they have delivered the products after contracts have been signed. Be it chinooks, Apache, P8 poseidons or the Sig assault rifles. Unlike Russians they don't take a lot of time.
  8. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    The repeat orders are a welcome news. After the deliveries of the repeat order is complete army will have nearly 1.44 lakhs SIGs in its inventory good enough to equip every soldier involved in a short skirmish like situation similar to kargil.
  9. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    I may be wrong but have a feeling that the exact numbers of purchase are never disclosed. I feel that we may end up giving follow up orders for more SIGs .Also after watching yesterday's battle cry episode the decision to have different rifles does makes sense. But, drawbacks like this will be a...
  10. Mangal

    Indian Army SIG Sauer 716 assault rifle.

    You are not alone on this one. The tender has been made too much complicated. Besides, I don't see any point in purchasing a rifle which is at the end of it's life cycle. The rifles don't look good either but that's not the main issue. One thing that makes sense is that the intial purchase of...
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