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Does the AK-203 come with stamped metal receiever or milled receiver ?

How many AK-203 we are finally planning? First it was 7.5L, then it became 6.5L and now reports indicate 5L. It seems that numbers are continiously reducing. Does this indicate CAPFs is not on board with this deal and would rather prefer TARs? Or it may be the case that Army itself wants more...

How would you compare AK-103 and Arsenal AR-M1?

There is a trend. After a long timeperiod of silence, one newsportal reports that 'deal is final'. Then the news spreads like wildfire and all other news portals/youtube channels reports it for 2-3 days. Then after that we get silence for another long timeperiod. And the cycle continues....

I think peference should go to SSS defence, especially the snipers and 7.62*39 mm P-72 rifle. For 5.56*45 and 6.8*43 OFB design look good. Astr is promising design, but very little is known about their company. I heard they are a small start-up in Hubli, Karnataka, but nothing else is known and...

How do you ensure quality control even in private sector once the foreign manufacturer has already selected the Indian private vendor. Remember all the private Indian companies have zero experience in rifle manufacturing let alone designing from scratch. They for a long time will depend on just...

I am saying comparitive trial should be held between Indian and foreign rifles. Also quality control issues regarding Insas have been solved in the last decade itself. Also MCIWS is a DRDO product and they can invite public private partnership like the ATAGS project if necessary. Licence...

Even in the 7.62*39 mm category there are 3 indegeneous products in the offering : 1. OFB Ghatak 2. OFB Trichy 3. MCIWS 7.62*39 mm It is good that OFB and DRDO keeps coming up with these rifles at regular intervals especially since the RFIs have a tendency to get cancelled. Also in a...

History repeating itself in case of army tender for foreign rifles with a single vendor situation arising and possible cancellation of tender in the near future. Better option is to outright go for 7.62*51 mm and 5.56*45 mm OFB excaliber mk 2/JVPC rifles for regular infantry and 7.62*39 mm OFB...

what about the multi-caliber rifle which the arde was about to produce by 2012.

what happened to the finsas gi=un designed by arde which resembles fn-2000?

this is a grenade launcher not a rifle.