INSAS Reborn: The Indian Army's Rifle Upgrade Journey | The News9 Plus Show

Used INSAS since 2001. Good point--very accurate! Flops: * Frequent jams * Fragile body * Less killing capacity. * Magazines faulty. I preferred heavier SLR 7.62 and AK-47 over INSAS. INSAS LMG is absolutely failure due to:- * Light body reduces sustained fire accuracy. * Magazine under the body exposes the firer and damages to magazine itself. * Old 7.62mm LMG was still preferable.

U shud have shown viewers pics of the upgraded INSAS..

Insas is made on the bizarre principle of injuring an enemy rather than killing him so many more of his friends will remove from the battlefields in order to save him many many army men called this rifle substandard weapon. And for that matter Ak has no comparison still now

SSS Defence and other private companies have made really good Rifles we should Consider those Made in india Guns. And promote Make in India .

Samir dhawan the best person i worked under him. Very positive guy 🎉

INSAS reborn with new defects .😂😂😂😂

The problem was with the doctrine and not adapting based on user feedback and making incremental changes, similar to what the British did with the SA-80, from L85A1 to the current L85A3. The initial INSAS with a 20-round magazine was inherited from the SLR 20-round mag philosopy. Over time, the design should have evolved but was stuck in past philosophy. There was already a 30-round mag for the INSAS LMG, which was used in the North East with their INSAS rifle—not standard practice but based on field experience. The first lesson for degradation came from the Kargil War, and feedback should have led to changes, but only small incremental changes were made. A new rifle called the INSAS Excalibur was pitched but rejected by the Army, though it was used by the Assam Rifles, CAPF, and many state forces. The three-round burst and mag capacity don't make sense because if you fire full auto, the whole round is wasted in a few seconds. The Army could have requested more changes in developing the Excalibur and adopted those changes in their new variant of the rifle. That being said, there were a few INSAS variants with an AR-15 style mag well. By the way, there was no M4 carbine in the Vietnam War; it was some Colt's carbine. Yes, the INSAS handgrip is ugly with the saffron color, which was supposed to be safe from heat abrasion, but it was too wide for people under 5'5". Attaching rails and optics doesn't make the gun modern but on par with the current generation. Yes, the previous version had provisions for a specific style of optic mount, but the Picatinny rail solved that. Again, what optic is being mounted is also important as early INSAS optics were very basic. I beg to differ with what Samir said: AK is not just a rifle; it is a proper assault rifle like the AR series, except the mechanism is very different. The INSAS uses the long piston like the AK but better, as it has better dirt cover than the AK due to the selector lever design, which in the AK is quite susceptible to dirt. The INSAS still has its place; it is not reborn, it is just being updated to the level of standard that should have been achieved many years ago. Ps: No INSAS in Myanmar except some rebels using it.

CEO of the company upgrading the insas rifles should be hands on man. He should explain with the real upgraded rifle instead of empty talk

From 6.50 minutes I think it is the video od of the upgraded INSAS

Sounds like paid promo

Already Celebrated 32nd Birthday. Hearing This Bullshit News past 20 years.

Omg, finally some news anchors who really know what a defence equipment is...😮

Good public private partnership. Thanks for bringing good news. Hopefully INSAS is exported too.

6:50 this is the upgraded version. They have basically changed it with a kit.

He misses one key flaw of the INSAS i.e. the rifle keeps firing fully auto when put in 3 round burst when soldiers operate the rifle in high altitudes with extreme cold weather conditions. If this problem is not fix then it cannot be a true reborn in my opinion. If then it's great work by the research team.

Indian cant even make a gun but china is perfecting 5th gen fighter and making 6th gen fighter like a champ

Insas with detachable but and a good holographic sight can be a game changer mainly insas is made for defensive approach not offensive one

The major drop out of INSAS is the firing pin problem that constantly faced during the action

Every product goes through this phase, design - test - improve but for Indian people, they want a perfect product in the first round of development.

Upgraded pictures?