Nepal: August 12, 2005

Archives

The army says that Indian made INSAS rifles malfunctioned during the August 7th battle with the Maoists, leading to high loss of life among soldiers. The INSAS rifle is Indian is an Indian designed, 5.56mm rifle that is based on the basic AK-47 design. The INSAS rifle has been criticized before because of performance and reliability problems.

 

Article Archive

Nepal: Current 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999

X

ad

Help Keep Us From Drying Up

We need your help! Our subscription base has slowly been dwindling.

Each month we count on your contributions. You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
  2. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  3. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close