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CHENNAI: Indian paramilitary forces will soon have a new assault rifle called A-7 that will rival the ubiquitous AK-47.
The new equivalent to the popular AK-47 will be used by paramilitary forces like the CRPF and BSF, said P.K. Mishra, chairman of the Indian Ordnance Factories Board, in Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, on Tuesday.
The sophisticated India-designed rifle is getting ready to be used soon. Army sources said the AK-7 will give the AK-47—the most popular among assault rifles in the world—a run for its money.
Named after its inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, the automatic 7.62-mm calibre AK-47 can fire 600 or more rounds per minute and has been modified half a dozen times.
The original AK-47 was not mobile but it was modified by equipping it with a metal stock so it could be carried by parachute troops and armoured troops.
The original did not have a bayonet either. It was later equipped with one.
However, despite all its shortcomings, no gun in the world is more preferred by standard armies and paramilitary forces.
Besides the A-7, the ordnance board has other plans. "The board has also upgraded 40-mm and 70-mm guns for anti-aircraft operations and these would be subjected to user trials," Mr Mishra said.
"The 130-mm artillery guns and 155-mm guns are being upgraded and are due to undergo user trials," he added.
New technologies on the anvil are bulletproof jackets and various kinds of parachutes, slated to be "the cheapest in the world".
The board buys technologies from foreign countries and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
However, Mr Mishra said they were now concentrating on research and development in its own factories in India .
There are 39 defence material factories under the board.A new one is also coming up at Nalanda in Bihar , which will be commissioned in November 2005. It will cost Rs 9.42 billion.
The board is also planning a unit to provide aircraft-grade aluminium to the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Bangalore , which is building a light combat aircraft.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/437902.cms
I have my fingers crossed. IA already has INSAS which uses m-14 cartrages and now a-7 with ak-47, not bad.
The new equivalent to the popular AK-47 will be used by paramilitary forces like the CRPF and BSF, said P.K. Mishra, chairman of the Indian Ordnance Factories Board, in Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, on Tuesday.
The sophisticated India-designed rifle is getting ready to be used soon. Army sources said the AK-7 will give the AK-47—the most popular among assault rifles in the world—a run for its money.
Named after its inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, the automatic 7.62-mm calibre AK-47 can fire 600 or more rounds per minute and has been modified half a dozen times.
The original AK-47 was not mobile but it was modified by equipping it with a metal stock so it could be carried by parachute troops and armoured troops.
The original did not have a bayonet either. It was later equipped with one.
However, despite all its shortcomings, no gun in the world is more preferred by standard armies and paramilitary forces.
Besides the A-7, the ordnance board has other plans. "The board has also upgraded 40-mm and 70-mm guns for anti-aircraft operations and these would be subjected to user trials," Mr Mishra said.
"The 130-mm artillery guns and 155-mm guns are being upgraded and are due to undergo user trials," he added.
New technologies on the anvil are bulletproof jackets and various kinds of parachutes, slated to be "the cheapest in the world".
The board buys technologies from foreign countries and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
However, Mr Mishra said they were now concentrating on research and development in its own factories in India .
There are 39 defence material factories under the board.A new one is also coming up at Nalanda in Bihar , which will be commissioned in November 2005. It will cost Rs 9.42 billion.
The board is also planning a unit to provide aircraft-grade aluminium to the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Bangalore , which is building a light combat aircraft.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/437902.cms
I have my fingers crossed. IA already has INSAS which uses m-14 cartrages and now a-7 with ak-47, not bad.