pmaitra
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I had already read what you have written. He visited as part of this website, Indian Defence Review. This means, he visited ARDE as a private visitor, and not as part of a government fact finding mission.A very well written article by an educated and well informed author. He is the same man who was photographed testing the MCIWS. It appears, he travelled to ARDE as a private visitor. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Danvir Singh
"Amidst media reports of the Indian Army scraping the search for a multi-calibre assault rifle from foreign vendors, a team from the Indian Defence Review (IDR) visited the Armament Research Development Establishment (ARDE) at Pune recently. It was an exercise undertaken to understand the efforts made by Indian scientists in developing an indigenous assault rifle; a call unheard thus far. "
Sir,
He visited ARDE as part of a team from Indian defence review, being associate editor himself to do a story on ARDE.
He himself has not been pleased with Insas in past and had said" insas is demonstration of poor research and development",having said that insas is past .what matter now is that the selection is made based on merit.I myself would like indigenous rifle to be selected,but based on its merit rather than being selected due to quota system of rifle.As I have said earlier, army should collaborate with ARDE and help in suggesting and implementing improvement which would bring mciws to their standards of an ideal weapon system.
An assault rifle can claim success when:
1 Army and special forces of other countries adopt it without any subsidy or because you are giving them out for free.
OR
2 Chinese start making copies of it.
Yes, a rifle should be picked on merit, and not on looks.
In the recent trials, all foreign weapons proved to lack merit and the INSAS Excalibur came out to be the best. So, at least in this case, there is no dispute as far as merit is concerned. The point is, a rifle will need user inputs to resolve problems, and that is not possible without actually inducting it. This is true for the Kalashnikov family and the M-16 family as well.
I hope the MCIWS also comes out with flying colours in its tests.