“Indian Army’s Rifle Crisis Is A Mess Of Its Own Making”, Swarajya, October 17, 2025
“Years after fielding the SIG-716 as a stop-gap, the army has belatedly acquired the night optics that should have come with the guns.
On 15 October 2025, the Ministry of Defence signed a Rs 659 crore contract for Night Sight (Image Intensifier) for its SIG-716 assault rifles, along with accessories for the Indian Army. The sights will allow soldiers to fully exploit the SIG-716’s longer effective range, engaging targets up to 500 metres even under starlit conditions.
Importing equipment without critical aids and then paying again to rectify that omission years later is a long and storied tradition in Indian defence procurement…….”
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