India: “Kalaşi” will not take, Caliber is not the

The Indian edition of The Economic Times claims, India to exclude Russia from the number of countries, who is ready to purchase a batch of small assault weapons. Recall, India had previously expressed willingness to consider the option of acquiring a 72,5 thousands of rifles (assault rifles) and almost 94 thousand. carbines for the armed forces. It was noted, India as the primary option of automatic weapons is considering production Concern "Kalashnikov". However, now in New Delhi we decided to change the view.

stated, that as the main potential suppliers of assault rifles and other small arms today India covers such countries as the USA, Israel, Germany and South Korea. In the list of manufacturers appear, eg, Sig Sauer и Colt.

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Russia has responded positively to our initiative for the purchase of automatic weapons, but there is no suitable caliber ammunition, so there is no point in considering Russian proposals.

earlier it was reported, Russia could invest in the creation on the territory of the Indian factories for the production of weapons under license from concern "Kalashnikov". Production capacity has been declared at 50 thousands of barrels per year.

P.S. Here we must consider the nature of negotiation Indian partners. As is known, the nature of this so, that first there are publications that, India to cooperate on a particular type of weapons refuses, then time passes and Indian media reports, that New Delhi had decided to return to negotiations on the deal.