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Wont sell many, plenty laying around
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. (I'm a bot)


In particular, the Indian-russian joint venture "Indo-Russian Rifles Private Ltd." has completed the production of its first batch of AK-203 automatic rifles, Janes reports.
The first 70,000 rifles should have up to 70% of Indian components, and the figure must grow up to 100% afterwards.
On a side note, we should remark that the building of the plant for making russian rifles began back in 2007, but due to some problems, it opened with a delay in 2019.


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A 12 year delay? Wow. >

For a country with seemingly no safety measures, too. >

Reading between the lines here, this seems like a licencing deal more than anything else.
These are Indian AKs (initially with some Russian parts), built in India for the Indian army...
Russia is still profiting, but at least the arms aren't going to Russia itself... at least on paper... >

This has been in the works since 2019. It's not a new thing. And it was concluded before the war began.  
As much as I hate this deal - since it reeks of corruption (they railroaded all attempts at indigenization and still bought some 150k SIGs anyway which is a different round - which means two sets of optics and other accessories) it's not much of a military cooperation. >

Indias military logistics must be a fucking nightmare. The sheer size of the country, along with their mix of western and Russian equipment. Doesn’t sound like fun. 
Luckily most of Indias modern conflicts have been fist fights in Kashmir lol. >

India has been in three major wars. Two with pakistan and one with China. >

Since when? 1947? They have had one “major” war since the 1970s, the Kargil war, which only lasted 60 days. About 1000 casualties for both sides. 
The rest have been internal insurgency, or minor border clashes with Pakistan and China, oftentimes literally with fists or clubs. >

1962 lost to China , 1967 won against China
1965 won against Pakistan, 1971won against Pakistan, 1999won against Pakistan. 
Post WW2 biggest Tank Battle happened bw India and Pakistan, till last year. Largest Human Surrender post WW2  90,000 soldiers happened in 1971 when Pakistani soldiers surrendered to India, till next year hopefully. 
That's 5 more wars than on US Soil post WW2 >

I’m not supporting India but keep in mind their allegiance to Russia may be because Russia (and Soviet) always had their backs. When the US and UK tried to help Pakistan expand their borders, Russia did send an entire naval fleet w/ a nuclear sub to scare them off. >

I literally never heard about that before. I always thought that India and the USA would be natural partners because we're both democracies, compared with Pakistan which was a brutal dictatorship and is still pretty repressive.
I'm only now learning about their history during the cold war, when India had a Russian-inspired economy and was close with Russia, so the USA decided to be friends with Pakistan.
Considering that Pakistan is now allied to China, that worked out just swimmingly... >

Wait till you hear about the US and China being on the same side against the USSR. >

No way?! >

Parts kits when? >

I didnt even know an AK-203 existed, I thought it was the 100 series and then that was it, the more you know >

I honestly thought the 100 series were mostly just fancy marketing names for slightly different variations of the AK platform with more modernized furniture. Is the 203 functionally different? >

India doesn't GAF. >

Cant have a post about india without mentioning pakistan every comment, these guys are OBSESSED! >

Pakistan is the reason for strong India-Russia relations .As China brought Russia and Pakistan together ,India distanced itself a bit from Russia and made stronger ties with US .India's foreign policy's core is based on Pakistan and China so... >

Uh oh here comes the Indian downvotes army >

They’re here in full force. India can do nothing wrong, Modi is God, Pakistan is the devil’s playground, and superpower 2025. That’s all you need to remember >

You need to remember few more
1) Even though all the terrorists belong to one religion you have to say terrorism has no religion
2) If you talk against them you are phobic 
3) Pakistan is devil itself, which is going down the drain after exhausting all ismulc terrorists against India. Snake once bred to sting India is biting them back now.
Finally you need to remember you agree or not Modi going to be there for one more term at least and peaceful bros who want to terrz India is going to have tough times :-) >

So brave of India to replace Islamic extremism with Hindu nationalism. Very forward thinking behavior >

As yourself said terrzm and nationalism are two different topics. 
Nationalism promotes unity and growing together as a nation irrespective of religion.  It rejects idea of appeasement. There are many religions flourishing and peacefully practicing in India like Christianity, Judaism, Parsis, Budhists, atheists, Jains, Ahmedis, Shias, Sufis,Pasthuns, Atheists.
(There are many prominent leaders from all these religion in india for eg Ratsn tats is Parsi, while the worlds richest muslim entrepreneur is Azim Premji. With 250+ million muslim, India is the second biggest Muslim populated country on the Earth)
While terrzm as you know promotes hatred and create harm as we see in afghan, Pak, irn,irq and many other places where minorities are sold like slaves or don’t exist any more. And you don’t see that many religion existing under their religous ideology.
Anyway cry babies keep complaining, India keeps marching ahead, while the devil keeps begging for wheat and loans. >

Indians always have something to prove, which makes me think you guys are the most insecure people I’ve ever met. Maybe there’s a reason every country surrounding you hates your guts, and that your biggest “ally”, Russia, would drop you in a heartbeat if daddy Xi asked them to. There’s a reason India has no powerful friends on the global stage, and it’s the stuck up, “my country is God’s gift to earth” attitude that rubs people the wrong way. >

Lol You guys always have to prove others are wrong or what we think is correct and you need to get validation. The abramic countries always want to assert their belief .
Now that India shows F to West or USA or those abramic counties  , guys are unable to digest.
  Daddy Xi or mummy America is for Pakistan not for us. India is no longer solely dependent on Russia like in 1970 but at the same time India won’t forget someone who gave an helping hand. 
 India today needs no one’s support to carry on its own. >

Didn’t Chinese soldiers literally like machete Indian ones to death, and your government did literally nothing? You can support yourselves up until China actually flexes some muscle, then it’s back to the “mummy” US and Australia to get some backup >

That area is under agreement not to carry weapons which was violated and both the sides suffered causalities. 
  And India handled itself (not looked for Russia or USA) , so pretty well India can handle in the future (like recent one in Arunachal Pradesh where Chinese soldiers were dealt  and hundreds of them couldn’t face few Indians on this side)
China can’t even flex muscle against small South East Asian Island nations forget about India.
Lol Australia:-) >

Irony is a Pakistani accusing other countries of always needing help. >

Indian apologists are out in force I see. >

I want one for my collection. Looks well built. >

Small arms are not going to swing this war anyway. >

Developed nations should stop hectoring and lecturing other nations. We are at an existential crisis. Reduce the fossil fuel usage. Reduce the amount of plastic and garbage production per capita. This has been going on nearly a century. >

Continue supporting war criminals at your own peril.  
These are things we never forget. >

Can be no doubt who's side India is on >

Its more of a licensing deal, its fully made in India for Indian army based on the articles when you search google for that info. Russia making vey little if any money off this >

Not true. Wiki states that Russian special forces also use them. >

They use them, but the ones made in India are used by the Indian army. It's more a licensing deal to get domestic modern gun production. They may gain some profit from the deal but no delivery of weapons AFAIK. /shrug >

And who's to say the profit can't be in the form of said guns? Even at a percentage.  Russia is dumb in a lot of ways, but giving a gun patent to another country to produce, and recieve no guns even for q&a seems like a no go at any rate. >

Dude, it happens ALL the time. The world does not exist in a vacuum. Nations don't just forget their entire histories because a war starts somewhere else in the world. There's no shortage of countries making AK variants on license. Also, as stated, this deal was put in place a long time ago.
I do not blame India for looking out for their own interests. It's not their war and their relationship with Russia has been a vital one in decades past. India does not feel compelled to join sanctions or ban energy imports from Russia, but they also don't feel compelled to assist Russia in providing war materiel. To me that's threading the needle and no one should hold them at fault for it.
Countries look out for their own interests above all else. It's easy to sit back in the US and declare how India should handle their own security and energy business in light of Russias war of aggression, but none of us know shit about feeding a billion people, ensuring security and stability long term with Pakistan and China on either side.  Not every country can afford to make decisions based on ideals alone. >

Why is it always you, India? >

Because the West consistently sided against us time and again; and we were practically forced to rely on first Soviet and then Russian support for basically surviving? Consequently we have close ties with them, and a large chunk of our defense infrastructure came from there in the past. >


Because the West consistently sided against us time and again;

America gave you more financial aid than they gave any other country from 1942-2012.....$65 billion dollars >

Financial/humanitarian aid is very very different than geopolitical support. US consistently armed Pakistan, something that directly hurt us many times. Look up Blood Telegram, just as a small idea of how rabid American support to Pakistan was.
America literally dispatched an entire Carrier Strike Group too intimidate us into letting Pakistan carry out genocide and raping and pillaging in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), something that caused hordes of refugees to flood into India. Know the one single country that stood with us? Russia. >

Not sure siding with Russia at this point is a good strategy for Indias long term prospects though regardless of past misgivings. >

Again, we aren't doing it out of a sense of revenge or getting back at the West. We're doing what we're doing because we were forced into deep ties with Russia. You can't just up and say "oi we no longer friends, me wants 'Murica now". 
It takes time.
And above everything else, India sides with India. Just like America sides with America. >

time to get even with India!! block all their telemarketers and fake IRS workers!! >

Yes why don't you?