{"id":4373,"date":"2023-01-21T07:17:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T01:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2025-03-26T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:29:11","slug":"what-is-the-asmi-machine-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-asmi-machine-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the ASMI Machine Pistol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About ASMI Machine Pistol:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ASMI (meaning pride\/ self-respect) is <strong>India\u2019s first indigenous 9mm machine pistol.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Developed jointly by <strong>DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) and Indian Army.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>weighs under 2kg<\/strong> and can fire at a <strong>range of 100 metres.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has an <strong>8-inch barrel and 33 rounds <\/strong>of high capacity magazine load.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It would cost around <strong>Rs 50,000 per unit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>3D printing process was used <\/strong>to design and prototype the pistol\u2019s various parts, including its trigger components.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>set to replace the 9mm pistols in the Indian defence forces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is a Machine pistol?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a relatively small, <strong>self-loading automatic handgun with a high rate of fire and can fire in intermittent or sustained bursts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1<strong>)<\/strong>\u00a0What is the Defence Acquisition Procedure, 2020 ?<\/h3>\n<p>The Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 has been established in 2020 as a potential catalyst for the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, in the sector of defence manufacturing. It eases the procurement and acquisition of upgraded technology, products and services for the Tri-Services and other allied defence services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/security\/indian-army-machine-pistols-emergency-provision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why Indian Army Is Buying Machine Pistols Under Emergency Provision<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASMI is India\u2019s first indigenous 9mm machine pistol develpoped by DRDO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}