Let's see...
> The calibre (5.56x30) is kind of a half-a$$ed round. It gives you neither the light-weight of a 9mm, nor the stopping power of a full-fledged 5.56x45 cartridge (carbines in which are easily available within the Amogh's form factor & weight category).
> Platform is very feature-deficient. The only real interface system is a very short P-rail on top (which is too short to mount a tandem setup of day+night sights). The handguard has no rails at all so adopting of stability-increasing grips isn't happening either.
> Machining of parts appears to be of very poor quality. In this pic one can clearly see a very ill-fitting dust cover (look near ejection port, btw...good luck retaining zero with that) which somehow managed to pass QC -
> Given everything else that's going on, I see no reason to believe Amogh too doesn't cost a totally unjustifiable, exorbitant amount to purchase. It'd be like buying a Tata Nano for 10+ lakhs.
To summarize, in my opinion, it's a pretty crappy offer. Especially when you take note of what you can actually get for the price you're shelling out (if not significantly cheaper)...in this day & age, what the OFB Amogh SHOULD have looked like is a CZ Scorpion EVO3, with a polymer receiver frame, and offered in a range of calibres (9mm, .40s&w, .45acp) & barrel lengths (6", 10", 15"), and being of reasonable cost -
On the market right now, for users of sub-compact PDW-type firearms of 9mm calibre (prioritizing hostage-rescue) an ideal buy would have been the above mentioned EVO3 or the B&T MP-9 which our forces already use. HK MP-7 would have been perfect but the export ban is the devil.
Though, if one is willing to get a more powerful weapon in the weight & size category of current Amogh, one can get a huge selection of AR-15 carbines of 11-13" or below barrel lengths. Like a CAR 816 -
...and countless other offerings.
Incidentally...our western neighbour's SSG-N commandos use just such a AR-15, namely the SIG 516PDW, for ship-borne CQC operations. Though these are an even shorter 7.5" barrel length, and fully kitted out with optics, grips, flashlights, the works -
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The VBSS teams of our Navy (which should be equipped no worse than a Tier-1 city's SWAT team), unfortunately, despite our much bigger financial resources, remain still largely stuck with the SAF carbine 1A1, a.k.a the post-war British Sterling SMG, which are literally rusting away...