India’s Adani delivers 2,000 Prahar guns
Adani Defence & Aerospace delivered a batch of 2,000 Prahar light machine guns to the Indian armed forces, a step highlighted in recent coverage of India’s rapid defense industrialization and automation. The tempo and scale suggest heavy use of industrial robotics and automation across Indian defense manufacturing. (youtube.com)
The handover event was staged at Adani Defence’s Small Arms Complex on the outskirts of Gwalior and was attended by A. Anbarasu, Director General (Acquisition), Ministry of Defence, and Ashish Rajvanshi, CEO of Adani Defence & Aerospace. (thehindubusinessline.com)) The manufacture effort sits under a procurement programme for roughly 41,000 7.62×51mm LMGs awarded to the PLR Systems venture, according to company and ministry reporting. (thehindubusinessline.com)) PLR Systems is the Adani–IWI joint venture established to produce these weapons domestically, and has been the prime contractor named in multiple recent procurement announcements. (indiandefensenews.in)) The Prahar is the licensed Indian variant of IWI’s NEGEV NG7, built around the 7.62×51mm NATO round with an advertised cyclic rate of roughly 600–750 rounds per minute and an effective range near 1,000 metres. (iwi.us)) Adani describes its Gwalior complex as a roughly 100‑acre integrated small-arms hub fitted with advanced CNC machining, robotics and metallurgy labs, and independent reporting cites an annual weapons output design capacity in the order of 100,000 units supported by a separate Kanpur ammunition complex rated for hundreds of millions of small‑calibre rounds per year. (moneycontrol.com)) Company statements and press coverage say the initial production run was completed in about seven months—reported as nearly 11 months ahead of contract schedule—while ministry officials at the event quantified the time saved in delivery in terms of hundreds of days. (moneycontrol.com))
