India Will Now Produce Rifles And Air Defence Guns

May 7, 2022

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Image credit : Indian army soldiers take position in an orchard near the site of gunbattle in Pulwama on Saturday. Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP Photo

The tender for very short-range air defence (VSHORAD) missiles was postponed in January. It was intended for the Army and Navy.
Self-Propelled Air Defense Gun Missile systems is awaiting approval by a negotiation committee.

The Ministry of Defence’s decision to stop producing new Sig Sauer rifles adds to the growing list of weapons and equipment created in India rather than imported.

In 2020, a Rs 700-crore repeat order for 72,400 additional rifles was approved. It’s now being kept back. For Indian commercial and public sector enterprises, this will now be a make-in-India programme.

The tender for very short-range air defence (VSHORAD) missiles was postponed in January. It was intended for the Army and Navy. It cost more than $5.2 billion for 5,175 missiles and 1,276 single and multi-launchers, as well as technology transfer to defence public-sector companies (DPSU). This is now open to Indian businesses.

A $3 billion programme to acquire five regiments of Self-Propelled Air Defense Gun Missile systems is awaiting approval by a negotiation committee.

The Long Range Reconnaissance and Observation System, weapon-locating radar (plains and deserts), upgrade for GRAD (a weapon systems) carrying vehicle, advance infantry floating foot bridge, armour piercing ammunition, and the mobile autonomous launcher will also not be imported by the end of this year (Brahmos).