DRDO Multical Rifle Unveiled

[Shaitan]

It's an older prototype of MCIWS.

You sure? How do you know?

 

[SafedSagar]

You sure? How do you know?

Its an older pic. The new one is like you posted

 

[Shaitan]

Its an older pic. The new one is like you posted

When is the other one dated to?

 

[Twinblade]

It's an older prototype of MCIWS.

It seems like a newer prototype.
From June 2015:-

MoS for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh examining the gun. Good thing they got rid of 45 degree AK style gas port.

 

[blueblood]

It seems like a newer prototype.
From June 2015:-

MoS for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh examining the gun. Good thing they got rid of 45 degree AK style gas port.

What do you think is the current status of the MCIWS?

Also, we don't you see anymore.

 

[Blood+]

It seems like a newer prototype.
From June 2015:-

MoS for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh examining the gun. Good thing they got rid of 45 degree AK style gas port.

Hmm....this one seems to be having a longer gas tube,a long stroke piston in this one??

 

[ezsasa]

Hmm....this one seems to be having a longer gas tube,a long stroke piston in this one??

it can also be that the gas tube is exposed when the foregrip along with it's rails are removed. The one held by minister does not have foregrip.

 

[pmaitra]

It seems like a newer prototype.
From June 2015:-

MoS for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh examining the gun. Good thing they got rid of 45 degree AK style gas port.

View attachment 5747

it can also be that the gas tube is exposed when the foregrip along with it's rails are removed. The one held by minister does not have foregrip.

Looks like they replaced the non-adjustable gas block with an adjustable one, like in INSAS. A gas regulator is needed if the gas block has to be adjusted when switching from one calibre to another.

 

[Twinblade]

Looks like they replaced the non-adjustable gas block with an adjustable one, like in INSAS. A gas regulator is needed if the gas block has to be adjusted when switching from one calibre to another.

The barrel and flash suppressor are also different from INSAS now. They do need to cut down the rifle length, it's only marginally smaller than INSAS with a collapsed butt (905 mm). With an extended butt (980 mm), it's even longer than INSAS.

 

[Neeraj Mathur]

the gun looks pretty heavy.
do we know the weight of the gun in picture

 

[Anikastha]

From when this rifle will enter into mass production?

 

[ezsasa]

From when this rifle will enter into mass production?

I think production depends on army, pretty sure army will take atleast 1.5 year to test and submit report.

 

[salute]

the gun looks pretty heavy.
do we know the weight of the gun in picture

and big in size, lengthy too,
it should be like m4.

 

[Hari Sud]

and big in size, lengthy too,
it should be like m4.

M4 is not multicaliber.

It should not be sent to the Army that early. They will definitely find faults, hence it should be internally tested to army standards and all possible defects rectified, first.

Given to the Indian Army with a penchant for imports, they will kill the rifle before it even matures for continuous operation.

Indian Army with its friends in the arms lobby felt a bit slighted when all the multicaliber rifles tested recently failed. What succeeded was a much simpler Excalibur rifle, which the army does not like. This multical Indian built rifle will definitely fail under one or the other extreme testing standards and then the army will make a big deal out of it. They do not see the reality that even M4 or M16 also fail under one or the other extreme conditions.

If possible, send it to Israel for testing. They will be more independent than the sales commission minded brass of the Indian army.

 

[salute]

@Hari Sud
oh yes m4 is not multical,
its leap of faith from drdo,they directly jumping to multical,
given the thought that army dont like drdo products,
doubtful that amry gonna satisfied with multical,army don't like insas that much so that they gonna happy with multical,

drdo should impress army with a standard rifle first,
but again drdo never given proper fundings,
drdo may not have modern work culture or thinking which is required for innovations,
they must be following same bs again and again.

 

[Twinblade]

M4 is not multicaliber.

There are plenty of uppers available for m-4/m-16 family to convert them into 7.62x39, 6.5 mm, 6.8 mm, .300 blk guns using the standard lower and appropriate magazines. There are even a few universal magazines whixh can accommodate all these round. Colt CM-901 is multicaliber, basically a with special lower which can mate with M-4/M-16/AR-15/AR-10 uppers, can also fire 7.62x51 mm rounds.

 

[pmaitra]

It is not very clear, but I have a feeling the old MCIWS flash suppressor looks like that of INSAS and the new MCIWS flash suppressor looks like that of the Excalibur.

Adapted from original picture by @Kunal Biswas:
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...pictures-from-kunal-biswas.58405/#post-855982
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/853/40yf.jpg

 

[Twinblade]

It is not very clear, but I have a feeling the old MCIWS flash suppressor looks like that of INSAS and the new MCIWS flash suppressor looks like that of the Excalibur.

View attachment 5754

Adapted from original picture by @Kunal Biswas:
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...pictures-from-kunal-biswas.58405/#post-855982
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/853/40yf.jpg

It looks like neither.

 

[pmaitra]

It looks like neither.

I wasn't talking about these pictures. I was talking about the other picture with the MCIWS in the hands of Rao Inderjit Singh.

The gun in the two pictures quoted above has a flash suppressor like the regular INSAS.

 

[Illusive]

I wasn't talking about these pictures. I was talking about the other picture with the MCIWS in the hands of Rao Inderjit Singh.

The gun in the two pictures quoted above has a flash suppressor like the regular INSAS.

That image is not clear enough, but looking at the gas tubes in these two pics, it can be said they are the same new rifle that the minister is holding, compared to the old ones.