{"id":29712,"date":"2015-01-18T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29712"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:43:39","slug":"the-insas-is-a-very-bad-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/18\/the-insas-is-a-very-bad-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"“The INSAS is a very bad rifle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian troops suffer a particularly bad experiment in local sourcing<\/a> of equipment:<\/p>\n

\"INSAS<\/a>

INSAS rifle (via Wikipedia<\/em>)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

In 1999, the Indian Army fought a three-month-long undeclared war with Pakistan. It was also the combat debut of India\u2019s new INSAS battle rifle.<\/p>\n

The INSAS is a very bad rifle.<\/p>\n

During the conflict \u2014 waged over the disputed and mountainous Kargil district in the province of Kashmir \u2014 the Indian troops\u2019 rifles jammed up, and their cheap, 20-round plastic magazines cracked in the cold weather.<\/p>\n

Designed to shoot in semi-automatic and three-round burst modes, some soldiers would pull the trigger, and the gun would unexpectedly spray rounds like a fully automatic.<\/p>\n

Soldiers also preferred the heavier 7.62-millimeter rounds in the FAL rifle, which the INSAS and its 5.56-millimeter rounds replaced.<\/p>\n

Then in 2005, Maoist rebels attacked a Nepalese army base. The Nepalese troops had INSAS rifles bought from India. During the 10-hour-long battle, the rifles overheated and stopped working. The Maoists overran the base and killed 43 soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe the weapons we were using were not designed for a long fight,\u201d Nepalese army Brig. Gen. Deepak Gurung said after the battle. \u201cThey malfunctioned.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indian troops suffer a particularly bad experiment in local sourcing of equipment: In 1999, the Indian Army fought a three-month-long undeclared war with Pakistan. It was also the combat debut of India\u2019s new INSAS battle rifle. The INSAS is a very bad rifle. During the conflict \u2014 waged over the disputed and mountainous Kargil district […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5,15,663],"tags":[31,49,888],"class_list":["post-29712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-military","category-technology","category-weapons","tag-army","tag-guns","tag-nepal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Je","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29731,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29712\/revisions\/29731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}