Protective Gear for Soldiers

[Hindustani78]

Newly passed paramilitary personnels of India's Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), demonstrate their skills during a passing out parade in the outskirts of Hyderabad.

 

[Indian Patriot]

And yet again the failure of Indian defence PSUs is highlighted. Obsolete baggage like DRDO cannot come up with anything meaningful and it is the armed forces who have to suffer.

Armies world wide are investing in future soldier programs and the Indian jawan still walks around with the useless INSAS and no ballistic protection.

 

[Hindustani78]

And yet again the failure of Indian defence PSUs is highlighted. Obsolete baggage like DRDO cannot come up with anything meaningful and it is the armed forces who have to suffer.

Armies world wide are investing in future soldier programs and the Indian jawan still walks around with the useless INSAS and no ballistic protection.

 

[Indian Patriot]

That's an INSAS rifle which is useless and faulty. While two lucky guys behind are fortunate to be using the Tavor. And Indian troopers still do not have BPJ, BPH, NVG, and many other tools which are standard issue to every infantry soldier in first world armies.

 

[Omega007]

So this moron now expect DRDO to waste its limited manpower and monetary resources in developing trivial things like body armors and ballistic helmets,which are by the way available within the country with companies like MKU producing world class body armors and even exporting them to first world countries!!And this motha fuckiing scumbag calls himself Indian Patriot.................huh,Indian Idiot would be more appropriate.

 

[Hindustani78]

That's an INSAS rifle which is useless and faulty. While two lucky guys behind are fortunate to be using the Tavor. And Indian troopers still do not have BPJ, BPH, NVG, and many other tools which are standard issue to every infantry soldier in first world armies.

. It is license-produced in India , Known as the Zittara is manufactured in India by the Ordnance Factories Board for Indian service,

By 2005, IMI had supplied 350–400 Tavors to India's northern Special Frontier Force (SFF). These were subsequently declared to be "operationally unsatisfactory". The required changes have since been made, and tests in Israel during 2006 went well, clearing the contracted consignment for delivery. The Tavor has now entered operational service – even as India gears up for a larger competition that could feature a 9 mm MTAR-21 version. Known as the Zittara is manufactured in India by the Ordnance Factories Board for Indian service, the new Tavors have a modified single-piece stock and new sights, as well as Turkish-made MKEK T-40 40 mm under-barrel grenade launchers. 5,500 have been recently inducted and more rifles are being ordered.

 

[Indian Patriot]

. It is license-produced in India , Known as the Zittara is manufactured in India by the Ordnance Factories Board for Indian service,

License produced, not Indian design or innovation. There is a strong difference between the two. Are Indians so inept that India cannot design and build its own modern rifle? Even the INSAS is a mix of many different rifle designs from AK-47 to Galil. Unfortunately the INSAS does not have one redeeming feature of any of the illustrious rifles it was imitated from.

 

[Hindustani78]

The Army then cancelled a problematic Rs 4,848 crore order for importing Multi Caliber Assault Rifles on June 15

An OFB officer with the indigenous Excalibur 5.56mm assault rifle. If the Excalibur/MIR clears trials, it could be in the hands of infantry soldiers within two year

“We are going in for a designed and Made in India rifle in keeping with the government’s indigenisation thrusts,” senior Army sources told Mail Today.

The performance of the DRDO-designed ‘Excalibur’ assault rifle in trials last month at the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) in Pune has further enthused the Army.

The Excalibur had only two stoppages (where the bullet gets stuck in the breech) after 24,000 rounds were fired, close to the Army’s specifications of only one stoppage.

New features

The Excalibur is an improved version of the INSAS rifle and fires 5.56×45 mm ammunition. It has full-automatic capability over the INSAS which can only fire a three-round burst.

The Excalibur barrel is shorter by 4 mm, has a side folding butt stock and features a Picatinny rail, a universal mount that allows a range of weapon sights and sensors to be fitted on the rifle.

DRDO officials say it will take the OFB’s Rifle Factory Ishapore at least eight months to incorporate design changes suggested by the ARDE and field the first prototypes of what they are calling the ‘Modified INSAS Rifle’ (MIR).

Changes suggested after trials include a smaller handguard and improved polycarbonate magazine.

If the Excalibur/MIR clears trials, it could be in the hands of infantry soldiers within two years, DRDO officials say.

The DRDO is designing a second version of the Excalibur, the AR-2 that fires 7.62×39 mm rounds used by AK-47. The AR-2 will be offered as an alternative to the Russian-origin assault rifle.

The Army’s 2011 tender was for a Multi Caliber Assault Rifle or for a weapon that could fire INSAS and AK-47 ammunition with a barrel change.

 

[Indian Patriot]

excalibur will be another failure. A simple look a DRDO make rifles show the intellectual bankruptcy of Indian defense PSUs. The rifle looks obsolete and is obsolete. Look at modern rifles like SCAR, Heckler and Koch, Tavor and look at INSAS and excalibur.

 

[Omega007]

excalibur will be another failure. A simple look a DRDO make rifles show the intellectual bankruptcy of Indian defense PSUs. The rifle looks obsolete and is obsolete. Look at modern rifles like SCAR, Heckler and Koch, Tavor and look at INSAS and excalibur.

And here you show your lack of of intelectual honesty by comparing a rifle that was designed way back in the early 80s to such modern rifles.Had you been really been interested in an honest discussion,you would have compared INSAS with something like AKM or HK33 or FN FNC or if you must compare modern designes,then you would have taken the MCIWS.But honesty is not one of your virtuess,which we all know by the way.
And besides,when you have got just enough resources to allocate a mere 400 USD per rifle,then INSAS is best you can get,simple economics.You pay a 200k per piece,you can get an M16A4 or Tavor or whatever.......................you have pay for peanuts,you will get peanuts.But that's probably too much for your brain Indian Idiot.