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Thanks for your reply. Yes that is the weapon I was talking about. I know of a tourist range near Beijing (on the way to the great wall), that allows tourists to fire any small of their choice. Even Combodia has such ranges run by their army. The PPsh fires the 7.62 x 25mm Tokarev pistol...

pmaitra, OT Where in the US can you find a gun club that would allow a non-member to fire a PPsh? Looking for places in Mississippi and New Jersey. (My 12 yr old daughter "enjoys" the PPsh-41, in "Call of Duty 2"...lol)

Why the Tavor was choosen? - One cannot answer that query. But you are quoting absurd costs per rifle. Most assaut rifles cost between INR 5000 to INR 15,000. Where did you get the figures of 2 lacs and 1 lac? The ideal system is the Aug Styr - one weapon can be switched from rifle to carbine...

There are 10 para battalions and not 3. Seven of these battalions are SF units. Apart from these you have a Para mech inf unit, para arty and para medical battalion. Besides you have another division of SFF that has to be equipped with TAR-21s. The Paras are doing away with the AKMs and Vz58s...

BTW, in most encounters we fired our Aks on single shot mode. Even the SF units use single shot. This is what we do in actual ops...so the argument about 3 rd burst vs full auto is a none issue with the users.

This is what we should have done to the SLR and evolved it.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMBEL_MD

Too expensive. A cheaper option would have been to rebarrel the SLR to 5.56 mm or 7.62 x 39 mm. ???...we are using 5.56 mm round already. FYI, even with INSAS the ammo allotment has remained the same (unless there has been any chenge since I left the army) - 100 rounds of ammo. The grenade...

Still there is nothing that comes close to the L1A1SLR. It is a one shot kill rifle...and nothing in the market comes close to the 1B 7.62 mm LMG.

No the answer is to give them a domsestic competitor, i.e let the private industry enter defence production. If the OFB's dont give good products they will die their own deaths.

If I may answer this - the HE 36 grenade being used in the IA is a WWII vintage weapon. It is crude in comparison to the grenades being used by China and Pakistan and even the terrorists. But it is an affective weapon, provided one cleans the oil (from the fuse chamber), before priming the...

I would pick up the INSAS. Reason - it is more accurate. An appurture sight is better that the open V sight of the AK. Soldiers are issued weapons as per the role they are in. RR battalions use AKs, as they are in COIN, they need a compact, rapid firing assault rifle. Hence the were equiped...

There is no pride involved. We decided to use the 7.62 mm NATO round earlier as our neighbour used the M43. We switched to the 5.56 mm in accordance with the new military doctrine "to wound" and not kill, The IA does not do things for pride or vanity, but based on military doctrine being...

Sir, I agree with you. The INSAS is a good rifle and it is going through its growth pains. The M-16 also took about 22 odd years to rectify it defects. As you said we need to ensure proper QC, bring in a consultant if we dont have the know how. - If the 5.56 mm NATO round is found to be...