I had also fired them when I was in NCC (West hill Barracks,Calicut). ;) I
Semi auto SLR and the 3 round burst Insas has a 20 round mag.Even though you could carry twice as many 5.56 rounds, in terms of aimed shots SLR has better numbers. It gets better when you take into account the need...
Holding on the mags might cause the weapon to malfunction, as magazine lips could move off the line of feed.
Totally, all that change for some highly questionable advantage.I wouldn't have had the same opinion if they had changed to something in lines of other 5.56 cal rifles.
IMO the whole transition to the Insas system was unnecessary.They should have just held on to the SLR.It was a good infantry rifle. Only the CQB and COIN ops need a shorter smaller rifle, but from what we see today they prefer other rifles (like AK's and tavors) over Insas for that roles.And...
Thats just pathetic. :sick:
Firstly, it wasn't VS fight. Secondly Sibbu Philipose is a Christian.
Muslim, Christian and Hindu men died, So it doesnt seem to be religiously motivated.
Time bomb my a$&..
How about the LTTE sympathizing Pollicital class in T.N vouching for clemency for the guys who killed the "PRIME MINISTER" of India ??? Or the delusional one's that attacked "Indian" Army trucks ?? What about them putting the lives of 3 million Indians (read Keralites) at...
I would say Malayalam used to be a Dravidian language.Until the 16th and 17th centuries Malayalam used to be a combo of Tamil-Malayalam and Sanskrit-Malayalam.The Sanskrit-Malayalam being used by the high class section of the society like the Nairs and the Namboothiris.
Then came Ramanujan...
IMHO, Baf should go for a good quality fighter like Gripen in very few numbers. Bangladesh being a peaceful nation in a generally non-hostile nieghbourhood won't be needing an air superiority aircraft, but rather something good in A2G role.More over, having a few Gripens is way cooler than...
First of all, After Independence in 1947 kingdoms of Travancore, Cochin (in 1949) and Malabar ( in 1956) joined to form the state of Kerala on 1 November 1956.Before that Temples were run by the respective kingdoms.Travancore Devaswom Board is an autonomous body formed as per the Travancore...