Indian Army Plans to Upgrade INSAS Rifle. Part 2 – My Experience

By Vladimir Onokoy

In the first part of this article, I talked about the history of the INSAS rifle and the problems that were described in the Indian press. After reading countless articles about INSAS, I had a chance to travel to India and asked every Indian serviceman I met about those problems.Here is what I was told: the stories are true, and one of the main concerns for soldiers was magazines. Not just cracks in the magazine body – locking lugs breaking off.What made things worse was that if a soldier had a broken magazine, the price of the magazine was taken from his salary. As one of the officers said, quote: “That is how you make the soldier to hate his gun”.

The original magazines for INSAS are made of transparent plastic which is not very durable.

Some officers told me that the receiver cover of INSAS does not hold zero. This same complaint was also published by the Times

Source: The Firearm Blog