Equipment
 
Most of the army equipment is imported, but efforts are being made to manufacture indigenous equipment. All Indian Military Firearms guns are manufactured under the umbrella administration of the Ordnance Factory Board, with principal Firearm manufacturing facilities in Ishapore and possibly at Bolangir.
  
 
Light Weapons
 
 
HandGuns

** FN Browning GP35 9mmx19mm .

** SAF(Small Arms Factory) Pistol 1A 9mmx19mm, This is more or less a copy of the Canadian Inglis 9mm .

** GLOCK 17 9mmx19mm, The GLOCK-19 along with the 17 is in use with the Special Protection Group (Prime Minister's Security) .
 
 
 
 
Sub-Machine Guns and Carbines
** Heckler & Koch MP5A3 9mmx19mm SMG .

** Heckler & Koch MP5K 9mmx19mm SMG .

** SAF Carbine 1A 9mmx19mm, Indian made Sterling L2A1 SMG .

** SAF Carbine 2A1 9mmx19mm, Silenced Carbine .

** UZI 9mmx19mm SMG .
 
 
 
Sniping Rifles
 
 
**Dragunov SVD59 7.62mmx54mmR Sniper Rifle .

** Mauser SP66 7.62mmx51mm Sniper Rifle .

**Heckler & Koch MSG-90 7.62mmx51mm Sniping Rifle. The H&K PSG-1 sniping rifle serves with the NSG anti-terrorist units while small numbers of the Steyr Mannlicher SSG69 serve with the para-military Border Security Force(BSF) .
 
 
Combat vehicles
 
 
 
A Arjun tank during the induction ceremony at HVF Avadi. This is an indegenously designed MBT & is shown to be a match to all modern western tanks.

The indigenous Abhay IFV that is under development
· T-90S Bhishma - main battle tanks (310). Over 1000 more T-90S will be manufactured in India by 2010. It is rumored that India has signed a new contract for 330 additional T-90 tanks bought from Russia that will be assembled in India. [5].
· Arjun MBT Mk1 - main battle tanks (124). The Army has ordered production of this tank and the first batch has already rolled out of the Avadi factory and are currently being put through trials to check the quality control of the production process. The remaining tanks will follow thereafter.
· T-72 M1 Ajeya - main battle tanks (1,900+). 250 T72M1 are being upgraded by the DRDO, India's R&D organization. While requests for proposal for upgrading approximately 1000 other T-72's have been sent to various firms in Israel, Russia, Poland and France.

 
 
 
 
 
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