I am highly astonish to see such a low response to such an important thread, since many forum members of all class spend huge amount of words when it comes to Fighter Jet, Missiles, Submarines, MBT and various other heavy weapons system mainly used in War. But still we haven't seen any coherant discussion on a kind of a weapon system which has become highly relevant as any other weapon system used in a war.
New generation of Carbins and Rifles and employment of the same is a major task given various challenges required to face by our armed forces in modern battlefield against both conventional and uncoventional enemies. Use of Rifles has become a major area of debate especially when our armed forces require to face a kind of a enemy which is very low in number and highly use run and hit tactics as they aren't a effective fighting force in a first place. Under such circumstances, even if we have a some of the most advance kind of a rifles and carbins alongwith associated logistics simply are't sufficient enough to gurantee us as a major results given evolving nature of gunfighting. Since in a country like India, despite having multiple burst capable refiles equipped fighting force, we don't have a sufficient training centers to give this armed personnel to sharp their skill by engaging in a periodic target practic. Even according to recent reports, our much popular Rapid action Force based in Mumbai hasn't even a fired a single bullet in the last two years, not even during target practise. Because many of this soldiers are overburdened with their deployment for various reasons given their low number and not able to bring the time to do some target practic in training centers. This situation still persist in various paramilitary and Military components of India's armed forces. Under such circumstances, even if we equipped our Military troops with advanced weaponery(no matter which generation it is belonging to), it is highly doubtful wheather they would be successfull enough to use the same effecively.
I can't see our entire armed forces to be equipped with all the advance rifles, but they should equipped in a such way that we can extract maximum productivity from each of those soldiers fighting the battle against invicible enemy. Just having a advanced rifle and associated system will not going to win us a war, as there is no silver bullet to tackle our enemies. We have to bring in lots of inovation in this sphere which can enable us to fight the enemy with our existing systems. Proper communication equipmment and good coordination and adequent target practice as well become a major inputs in accomplishment of mission of modern battlefield in all landscapes and terrain.
