Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
Phew............ If I had to describe the INSAS to a class, I'd be telling them to think 5.56mm GALIL. It's true that there were teething problems with the INSAS - just like our L85 - but like us, they eventually took the bull by the horns, gave it and the sloppy design team a good kicking and got it working properly. That's straight from the horses mouth....... or as close as you could get, from the previous Indian Army Liaison Offr (the ILO) at work.

We had Offrs from all armies at Warminster on the junior command courses, Platoon commanders, JOTAC courses etc etc and while they might have been to Sandhurst, it wasn't for the Officers Commissioning course. They have their own Sandhurst at Chetwynd
Ah right, so if we say Galil, we are talking basically expensive tarted up AKM, I will have to read up on the INSAS, astonished they managed to bugger up such a proven design!

At least with the starting point of "Hey, lets ram an AR18 up an EM2's arse on a Tesco Value range budget and see what happens" you can see why the L85A1 went so very wrong, but to get the legendary reliable AKM design wrong, well India goes to the bottom of class, just below us!

Why oh why do the people who hold the purse strings let these companies re-invent the wheel, usually very badly and usually at a crippling expense to the tax payer and the poor sod who gets issued with it!