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NEW DELHI: In the last week of March 2020, as India was gearing up for first lockdown amid COVID 19 spread, an empowered-Group 3 was rushed by the Centre to facilitate availability of medical supplies: N-95 masks, testing swabs and personal protection equipment (PPE) kits.
Time was the critical factor as much the situation of rising COVID cases.
A new study has now disclosed key step in ensuring these supplies was indigenising the manufacturing and setting up of eight pan-India testing labs.
This includes South India Textile Research Association (SITRA), Comibatore, Ordinance Factory in Kanpur, Small Arms Factory in Kanpur, Heavy vehicles factory in Chennai, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Metal and Steel Factory (MSF) and Ordnance Fatory in Ambarnath, Maharashtra
User trial of Joint Venture Protective Carbine made at Small Arms Factory Kanpur Uttar Pradesh successful jagran.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jagran.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
User trial of the Joint Venture Protective Carbine.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said on Monday that a Carbine 5.56×30 mm Joint Venture Protective Carbine (JVPC) designed by its Pune-based facility has undergone its final phase of user trials, paving the way for its induction into services. During its extensive trials, the weapon has proved its efficacy in both extreme summer temperatures and winter conditions in high altitudes, said the DRDO.
The JVPC is a gas-operated semi bullpup-type automatic weapon, which has more than 700 rounds per minute rate of fire. The carbine has been designed as per the Indian Army’s General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQRs), by the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), a Pune-based facility of the DRDO. The weapon is manufactured at the Small Arms Factory, Kanpur, while the ammunition is manufactured at the Ammunition Factory, Khadki (AFK) in Pune.
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