EP4 : The ASMI

The Joint Venture Protective Carbine is the latest product of Atma Nirbhar Bharat's thrust on defence indigenisation. Ultra-reliable, highly precise, effective and lethal, it can fire up to 900 rounds every minute. In Guns of India, we look at JVPC and other such weapons keeping India safe.

The Indian Army is set to acquire over 400,000 carbines as part of a modernisation drive for one of the world's largest land armies. But, can the DRDO-AWEIL designed and developed Close Quarter Battle Carbine be the answer to the Indian Army's decades long quest for a world class carbine?

A new light machine gun is finally here to replace the Indian Army's INSAS LMGs. And it is made in India! Can AWEIL's Belt Fed LMG live up to the expectations of one of the world's largest land armies? Does its arrival mark the beginning of a new era for India's nascent military complex? Find out in Guns of India.

India had to wait for 75 years before Colonel Prasad Bansod gave the country its very own 100% indigenous machine pistol. Now the Indian Army, state security forces and the National Security Guard have ordered Col Bansod’s creation the ASMI. Is this new gun up to the task? Find out on Guns of India.