{"id":9329,"date":"2025-10-27T05:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:31:54","slug":"ak-203-assault-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ak-203-assault-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"AK-203 Assault Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About AK-203 Rifle:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>modern firearm<\/strong> originating <strong>from Russia<\/strong>, <strong>designed by<\/strong> the renowned engineer <strong>Mikhail Kalashnikov b<\/strong>etween 2007 and 2010.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>gas-operated<\/strong>, <strong>magazine-fed<\/strong>, <strong>select fire assault rifle<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a version of the AK-200 rifle <strong>chambered for<\/strong> the <strong>7.62x39mm cartridge used in<\/strong> the <strong>Indian Army.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The weapon has the traditional advantages of Kalashnikov assault rifles: reliability and ease of maintenance.<\/li>\n<li>These AK-203 rifles are <strong>produced in Indiausing proprietary Russian technologies<\/strong> and <strong>certified equipment<\/strong>, ensuring high product quality and adherence to specifications.<\/li>\n<li>It will be <strong>manufactured by Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited (IRRPL<\/strong>).\n<ul>\n<li>IRRPL is a <strong>joint venture between India and Russia<\/strong>, set up in 2019 to produce AK-203 rifles in the <strong>Korwa Ordnance Factory in Amethi<\/strong> district, <strong>Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The joint venture <strong>plans to ensure 100% localisation<\/strong> of the production of AK-203 rifles in India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India is the <strong>first country outside Russia<\/strong> which has started the <strong>production of the AK-200 series<\/strong> assault rifles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features of AK-203 Rifle:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Weighing 3.8 kg, this rifle measures between 880 and 940 mm in length with the stock extended, while its barrel is 415 mm long.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its mechanism is based on a <strong>gas-operated action with a rotating bolt,<\/strong> allowing a firing rate of approximately <strong>700 rounds per minute.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>With an initial velocity of 715 m\/s, the AK-203 offers an effective <strong>firing range between 400 and 800 meters<\/strong>, depending on sight adjustments.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The weapon is fed by a 30-round detachable box magazine, although a 50-round quad-column magazine can also be used for increased capacity.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with <strong>adjustable iron sights<\/strong>, and <strong>picatinny rails allow the addition<\/strong> of various <strong>optical sighting systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Ugram?<\/h3>\n<p>\u2018Ugram\u2019 is a state-of-the-art indigenous assault rifle. It has been developed by the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), a unit of DRDO, in collaboration with a private industry partner. It was developed in less than 100 days. It has been developed as per the General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQR) of the army into consideration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-indo-russian-joint-venture-delivers-35000-ak-203-rifles-to-indian-army-3544320\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indo-Russian Joint Venture Delivers 35,000 AK-203 Rifles to Indian Army<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AK-203 Rifle is a modern firearm originating from Russia, designed by the renowned engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov between 2007 and 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9329","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\/9329","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=9329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}