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@rkhanna Continued here. Please add this to your reply as well. Unlike the experience of units you mentioned, IA is buying the rifles for conventional warfare i.e. to fight the regular units of PA and/or PLA. Only riflemen of the infantry regiments will be issued the new rifles. West hasn't...

You are asking too much from me. But let me give it a shot. Conventional war is an open military confrontation between the conventional forces of two or more States. Unlike asymetrical or sub-conventional or hybrid warfare, international laws of warfare laid by Geneva conventions are to be...

I am not talking about battle tested. I am talking about user feedback. We bought Tar-21 because Israeli trained SG "believed" it could be a good addition to its arsenal. AFAIK, it didn't go through the long and tedius tendering process Tavor 7 is going to, against the rifles who don't share...

@rkhanna I think you are missing forest for trees. 1) No reliable source is saying that Tavor 7 has been or will be selected. For all we know Tavor 7 may not even be a contender. It is a rifle that has just made it to the scene. Not enough time to work out its kinks. 2) If you consider the...

Suits the topic perfectly.

More platitudes from people with no skin in the game. Wake me up when someone decides that OFB and BEML should make their cars and not Suzuki or Mahindra.

Will this circle jerking ever stop? I am sick and tired of this never ending bullshit and blatant hypocrisy. Soldiers should die because some people have too much ego tied to a shitty rifle. To all the die hard "patriots" who love India so so much can take a look around in your own home and...

@abingdonboy Don't go for the statements made for local consumption. Here is the breakdown. IA uses two calibers right now, has for decades. Rifle in 5.56 (previously 7.62×51) and a carbine in 9mm. This will be replaced again by two calibers, 7.62 NATO for rifle & 5.56 for carbine. So no JVPC...

Galil Ace has been frontrunner from day 1. Maybe the top dogs like FN & HK felt that the tender has been rigged in favour of IWI.

I saw that too and is not very surprising. Firearms went through what is probably the slowest evolution in warfare since WW2. It is a low tech industry and umpteen number of countries do good in this field except India.

IIRC more than 20 companies responded to RFI. We only know a handful of them.

Those prices are not of much relevance when it comes to military purchases. Case and point, M27 IAR.

First of all, let me begin with stating the obvious fact that Ajai Shukla is a bloody moron. Secondly, the 7.62 NATO rifles were always supposed to equip rifle companies and not other arms and services. RR will keep their 7.62×39 as there never was any plan to change that and support arms will...

I didn't come across a valid source but given the schizophrenic nature of German foreign policy it could be true.

If you are talking about the report that HK will not sell firearms to "un-democratic" countries which includes India then it hasn't been confirmed. It was a report by a German newspaper citing anonymous HK manager, not by an official press release.

It's not about the production capability of HK but upper hand in negotiations. You can't possibly negotiate a good deal with a company who is doing as well as HK.

Now that US Army is looking for COTS 7.62×51 rifles, companies will divert their attention towards US and not India. Despite the interim order is only for 10,000 pieces, huge market exists for civilian ownership. Also, USMC has ordered 50,000 units of M27 IAR making it it's standard rifle by...

For the life of me I cannot understand that why are you insisting that it is a battle rifle, SCAR equivalent in particular despite evidence to the contrary. Everything on that rifle screams semi automatic precision rifle, from long barrel to the large sight to the placement of P-rails. As for...

@tharun Not really mate. Telescopic sight and barrel length are a dead give away. Look up SVK too.

SK-16. Another one of those Russian vaporware. Supposed replacement for Dragunov along with SVK. Not a battle rifle.