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UAE-based EDGE group’s entity Caracal successful collaboration with Megha Engineering & Infrastructures (MEIL) radical steadfast Icomm Tele has bagged a declaration to proviso 200 CSR 338 sniper rifles to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
The rifles volition beryllium produced and delivered astatine the Icomm–Caracal Small Arms Complex successful Hyderabad. Inaugurated successful April, the installation serves arsenic a section manufacturing hub producing a broad portfolio of precocious weapons to conscionable the captious requirements of the Indian Armed Forces, the Central Armed Police Forces and to cater to Caracal’s planetary export requirements.
Delivery of Caracal’s archetypal India-produced CSR 338 sniper rifles is scheduled for the 4th fourth of 2025. A high-performance bolt-action sniper rifle, CSR 338 is chambered successful .338 Lapua Magnum and features a 27-inch tube with a 10-round magazine, ambidextrous mag merchandise and information mechanisms, a two-stage adjustable precision trigger, and a four-position, telescopic and foldable stock, the companies said successful a release.
Following motorboat of the tiny arms analyzable “we are advancing our concern with Icomm and solidifying our committedness to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make successful India initiative. This historical transportation of exertion successful tiny arms exertion is simply a important milestone successful UAE-India defence collaboration,” Caracal CEO Hamad Alameri said.
“Together with Caracal and EDGE, we are not conscionable supplying the astir precocious CSR-338 sniper strategy to CRPF, we are transferring world-class technology, creating high-quality manufacturing jobs successful Hyderabad and strengthening India’s defence concern ecosystem,” Icomm Tele manager Sumanth Paturu said.
