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Production of upgraded iconic Russian rifle kicks off in India​

A joint Russian-Indian joint enterprise to manufacture the upgraded Kalashnikov AK-203, has produced its first batch of the assault rifles, Rosoboronexport, the Russian state agency for international arms trade, announced Tuesday.

The enterprise, Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited, is set to supply India’s military and aims to achieve “100% localization” of rifle production in the future, according to the agency.

“The Korwa Ordnance Factory in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, produced the first batch of 7.62mm Kalashnikov AK-203 assault rifles. The start of deliveries to the Indian army is expected to begin shortly,” Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheev said in a statement, lauding the “reliable partnership”between Moscow and New Delhi.

The joint venture was created late in 2021, building and expanding on previous direct sales of the weapon to India. The new localized production contract, valued at an estimated $620 million, envisioned production of over 600,000 AK-203s on Indian soil, local media reported at the time.
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Chandragupt said:
LCH Prachand made in India light attack helicopter can fly at an altitude of 6 km above the sea level has stealth shape this is what you call quality.
I checked the specs again it’s the best Attack helicopter in it’s category there is no denying
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I normally try to avoid nitpicking on personal statements, but I have a lot of issues with anything related to HAL Dhruv, of which Prachand is derived from.

Between Dhruv and Rudra, there have been more than a dozen crashes and many of them fatal.

That is NOT what I call quality.
 
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supersnoop said:
I normally try to avoid nitpicking on personal statements, but I have a lot of issues with anything related to HAL Dhruv, of which Prachand is derived from.

Between Dhruv and Rudra, there have been more than a dozen crashes and many of them fatal.

That is NOT what I call quality.
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All crashes with loss of life are regrettable. Nonetheless I think India's progress across its helicopter programs are a model that should be emulated across many other domains. That is, the model whereby a perhaps flawed and unreliable platform is actually in production, in service, and progressively modified and improved upon as lessons are learned. This is preferable to trumpeting a "perfect safety record" on a program that is decades late, or waiting for magical foreign "ToT" to save India from doing the hard work itself (and which never seems to work out as intended anyway).
 
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pevade said:
Buddy, just because it LOOKS like the Invictus, doesn't mean it is "stealthy". The main rotor isn't even shrouded to reduce RCS, the main gun isn't shrouded, the fucking landing gears cannot be stored internally, the amount of vents and noise on the surface of the helicopter all degrade the "stealth" aspect of the helicopter significantly. The fact that you somehow believe that the LCH is somehow stealthy in any way shape or form is hilarious. Clearly stealth was not a consideration during the design phase. Does it even use radar absorbing coatings/composites? I think not.
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No aircraft is 100% stealth but they have tried to keep the RCS as low as possible and thats the reason why this shape
 
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Lethe said:
Beyond the five and soon to be six Scorpenes, India has two SSKs that are less than thirty years old today (INS Sindhurashtra c. 2000 and INS Shankul c. 1994). If P-75I follows typical project timelines with delivery post-2030, India's SSK inventory will soon be inferior to Pakistan's.
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To be fair, they have a true SSN on top of that, and are very likely to go for the lease of a second one.
 
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