Small arms and Light Weapons

[FalconSlayers]

1st image of SSS-D AK-47 upgrade kit

Same as the one pitched earlier

 

[ezsasa]

@Tom Jones temporarily banned from this thread for repeated off topic chit chat in a technical thread

 

[FalconSlayers]

So, is this optic included?

 

[notaname]

Guys please keep the thread to small arms only. No personal attacks.

Does anyone know exact numbers alpha is saying 24 but Wolfpack is saying 1000's who is correct.

Or Alpha defence is saying 24 modifications.



Finally SSS Defence got a major Indian Army contract (involves the upgrade of 1000s of AK series rifles)

 

[FalconSlayers]

Does anyone know exact numbers alpha is saying 24 but Wolfpack is saying 1000's who is correct.

Or Alpha defence is saying 24 modifications.



Finally SSS Defence got a major Indian Army contract (involves the upgrade of 1000s of AK series rifles)

1200 follow on, 24 initially for 3 Para, maybe for the non-upgraded ones who didn’t got FAB ones.
Honestly I wonder where tf is uniformity or standardisation?

 

[notaname]

1200 follow on, 24 initially for 3 Para, maybe for the non-upgraded ones who didn’t got FAB ones.
Honestly I wonder where tf is uniformity or standardisation?

So for follow on there will be a separate tender or this is final? Cause if new tender is released someone else can win that.

 

[FalconSlayers]

So for follow on there will be a separate tender or this is final? Cause if new tender is released someone else can win that.

Follow on order doesn’t require a tender afaik

 

[Lonewarrior]

1st image of SSS-D AK-47 upgrade kit
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Same as the one pitched earlier
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So as I said earlier @Marliii

This time the stock is from ATI. This specific model is their "Strikeforce".
The pistol grip is also from ATI

 

[FalconSlayers]

So as I said earlier @Marliii

This time the stock is from ATI. This specific model is their "Strikeforce".
The pistol grip is also from ATI

Yes you’re right, I was also thinking the same.

 

[Lonewarrior]

Yes you’re right, I was also thinking the same.
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I'm damn sure the handguard and rail system is also not theirs.

 

[shuvo@y2k10]

Is their any possibility that SSS may have imported the kits and reverse engineered them?

Or may be now that they have secured the contract the imported kits will be manufactured in their in-house facility rather than importing off-the shelf?

 

[Lonewarrior]

Is their any possibility that SSS may have imported the kits and reverse engineered them?

Or may be now that they have secured the contract the imported kits will be manufactured in their in-house facility rather than importing off-the shelf!?

Now lemme propose another theory.
Spoiler alert, it's bit anticlimactic.

They have most probably entered the competition as suppliers; not manufacturers.

Exactly what Star Aerospace Industries does with FAB Defence manufactured parts.

 

[shuvo@y2k10]

Now lemme propose another theory.
Spoiler alert, it's bit anticlimactic.

They have most probably entered the competition as suppliers; not manufacturers.

Exactly what Star Aerospace Industries does with FAB Defence manufactured parts.

That would be very depressing, given the media hype they created for the last 2 years promoting themselves as the torch bearers of #atmanirbhar Bharat.

 

[Aditya Ballal]

 

[Aditya Ballal]

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My conversation with SSS Defence’s CEO, about the use of off the shelf parts of foreign OEMs, after seeing the piecemeal order they’ve received for 24 pieces, I do get why they’re doing what they’re doing, and I hope they do follow up on their statement of integrating their own stuff when they do get significant orders. Only time will tell if they actually deliver upon it.

 

[FalconSlayers]

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Ask him the main question, where’s the AR-15 they’re working on.

 

[MisraZ]

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This guy is an honorable man.

 

[Aditya Ballal]

Ask him the main question, where’s the AR-15 they’re working on.

Asked and something else he had to say

 

[FalconSlayers]

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Asked and something else he had to say

He’s right I take my words and frustration back, business should be sustainable and feasible.

 

[Aditya Ballal]

This guy is an honorable man.

Don’t know if you’re being sarcastic, but I’m just happy he’s actually replied and admitted that they use imported accessories for now, not many people would admit that let alone reply to such a question. Most people would have ignored or outright blocked me. Seems like a decent guy, replies back soon most of the time.