Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a manufacturing unit of the AK-203/103 assault rifle at the Korwa ordnance factory in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh. The AK-203 is the latest and most advanced version of the legendary AK-47 rifle, the most abundant firearm the world has ever known.
New Delhi and Moscow signed an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) in the third week of February to build the AK-203 in India. A formal contract is yet to be signed, but the first of an estimated 7,50,000 AK-203 rifles are expected to roll off the production line later this year.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said: “The new joint venture will manufacture the world famous Kalashnikov assault rifles of the newest 200 series, and eventually will reach full localisation of production.
“Thus, the Indian defence-industrial sector will have the opportunity to fulfil the needs of national security agencies in this category of small arms, resting upon advanced Russian technologies.” India and Russia had reached an agreement on producing the Kalashnikov rifles in India during the visit of President Putin to India in October 2018.
‘The market is not creating pressure on the private sector to work towards skilling people’ – NSDC CEO, Manish lll The AK-203’s magazine can hold 30 bullets. The rifle has an effective range of 400 metres and is considered to be 100% accurate. It will be lighter and shorter than an INSAS rifle. It can host an underbarrel grenade launcher or a bayonet, and all versions can be equipped with quick-detachable tactical sound suppressors.
The 7.62 mm ammunition in the AK-203 rifle is NATO grade and, therefore, more powerful. The rifle, which can fire 600 bullets in one minute — or 10 bullets in a second — can be used in both automatic and semi-automatic modes. The most important quality of the AK-series rifles is that they never get jammed. The Kalashnikovs can work under extreme climatic conditions
So does this mean AKs are shit now? Since Sig Sauer is shit now because parts are made in India, AKs must be shit now because they will be made in India.
India is such an unbelievably incompetent shithole.
First they had AK's, then went all 'nationalist' for the Insas at a much higher unit cost and ended up producing, as usual, literal shit, except this time it didn't plop onto the ground. In a final act of hilarity, they are now paying the Russians to teach them how to make AK's before they invariably fuck up the manufacturing somehow.
Remember, India is one of the few countries that still exports hand-made items like any other 3rd world dump, despite the fact they have a 'space program'
Cooper Phillips
It’s a colloquial term for AK rifles widely known by the general public. Stop being so autistic
Ayden Green
Yes.
Elijah Davis
>space program Did they discover nuclear fusion through poo technology?
Benjamin Wilson
> poo in a loo some indian asshole
Aaron Howard
Nah they just copied/reverse engineered/licensed/stole/whatever old Ariane stuff, starting with their Vikas engine which is a license built Viking.
Sebastian Campbell
Why is this the case? On a geopolitical level putting aside genetic level
>indian asshole That's not even a meme, my father was in India a couple of years ago on a business trip and he said that Indians are all arrogant assholes.
Elijah Williams
No top tier commodities No cultural influence No power projection No top tier financial sector or ability to build one No regional states worth dominating No ability to change any of this
Nicholas Nguyen
>No top tier commodities >No cultural influence >No power projection >No top tier financial sector or ability to build one >No regional states worth dominating >No ability to change any of this Why do Indians continue on? What is their endgame?
I thought India just bought shittons of SIG 716's? What do they need an AK factory for?
Jeremiah Lee
with what would they have bought sigs? shit nuggets?
Ayden Morales
Curry spices I guess.
Elijah Diaz
they only got 50k sigs, they want 700k ak-203s
Ethan Brown
>considered to be 100% accurate At minute of barn door, maybe. Hell, AKs have gotten even less accurate with every generation. It's inherent to the design and practically unfixable AFAIK. Not that this really matters for how (and by whom) they're used.
>The 7.62 mm ammunition in the AK-203 rifle is NATO grade Assuming this isn't chambered for 7.62x51, what the fuck does this even mean?
Xavier Sullivan
To not be gobbled up by their neighbors
Jaxon Smith
What happened with their national INSAS rifle?
Justin Ortiz
Even with the most pedantic fucking reading, several dozen AK-47 prototypes were made before the full production AK-49 (which literally everyone just calls the Type 2 AK-47).
Tyler Scott
It was a fucking disaster and this latest spat with Pakistan forced the Indians to finally give up on it
Ethan Parker
>The 7.62 mm ammunition in the AK-203 rifle is NATO grade and, therefore, more powerful. I don't even
Hinduism creates a ton of retarded rules. Indians ceded the spice trade in the Indian Ocean because high caste Hindus can’t eat at sea. So by the time the Portuguese come around Africa Muslisms dominant the commerce of the Indian Ocean. The Battle of Diu, which gave the Portuguese naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean, had a local Muslim subcontinental force lead by a Croatian convert to Islam, and an Egyptian fleet which was built by Greek and Venetian engineers.
Why does that look like a picture from a Stalker Mod?
James Sullivan
you are an idiot.
Eli Scott
what is that chart? population vs. what? population growth? gdp?
Henry Russell
>The rifle... is considered to be 100% accurate
Wow. Full accuracy? Amazing.
Benjamin King
yes they do, poo in the loo.
Wyatt Green
>The most important quality of the AK-series rifles is that they never get jammed. The Kalashnikovs can work under extreme climatic conditions and are effective even in sand, soil and water.
Angel Allen
Population vs designated shitting streets.
Colton Peterson
Looks like it's ordered after the yearly population growth in people, not percent. So India would be adding on a bit under 15 million people a year to its population.
William Martinez
It isn't versus anything, nor is it a chart. It's just a list of countries, their population and population growth.
No one ever fucking called the Type 2 AK the "AK-49".
Angel Morales
>100% accurate >never jams Name 1 (ONE) better,gun, Jow Forums
Ryan Perry
Doesn't take a firearms expert to tell that the INSAS has the build quality of the fecal matter that surrounds it.
Luis Russell
I really want to believe that that is just goat shit up in the mountains and they are just ignoring it for a photo op of their rifle, but I know deep down that is somebody's saag paneer on the ground under the rifle sling.
>pic Is this the fully ambidextrous AK with right- and left-hand ejection ports and everything?
Owen Scott
It sprays lubricant in the user’s face, and doesn’t work
Alexander Gray
What I never quite understood, is this infamous picture an official marketing picture by the company which produced INSAS or was it simply taken by some poojeet soldier in the field?
Michael Lopez
Does this mean we will be able to import AK203s possibly?
