Defense: Russia is ready to arrange full production of AK-203 Assault Rifle in India
New Delhi: A scrumptious weapon AK-203′ Assault Rifle will be now produced in India as Russian arms seller is ready to arrange full production of 7.62mm Kalashnikov assault rifles in India in two or three years.
Alexander Mikheyev — CEO of Russia’s state arms seller Rosoboronexport on Tuesday said that “The Russian side confirms its readiness to arrange full-scale production of the latest version of the Kalashnikov assault rifle within two to three years to provide India’s defense structures with advanced small arms,”
“There is a specific feature of the launch of the production process. The first 70,000 AK-203 assault rifles will be produced in India with a stage-by-stage increase in local production from 5 percent to 70 percent. The other assault rifles will be 100 percent locally produced,” the Rosoboronexport head said.
Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited and India’s Defence Ministry inked a deal on December 6 on the production of over 600,000 AK-203 Kalashnikov assault rifles in India and their delivery to India’s defense structures. Therefore, India can become the first foreign country to produce Kalashnikov assault rifles of the latest 200th series.
(_Vinayak Barot)
