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Joint Venture Protective Carbine (JVPC)

December 10, 2020
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Successful trials of Joint Venture Protective Carbine (JVPC)

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  • Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) designed 5.56×30 mm Protective Carbine has successfully undergone the final phase of User trials recently
  • This has paved the way for induction into the services
  • JVPC has successfully met the stringent performance criteria of reliability and accuracy in addition to quality trials conducted by DGQA.

What is JVPC?

  • JVPC is a Gas Operated Semi Bull-pup automatic weapon having more than 700 rpm rate of fire. 
  • The effective range of the carbine is more than 100 m and weighs about 3.0 kg with key features like high reliability, low recoil, retractable Butt, ergonomic design, single hand firing capability, and multiple Picatinny rails etc. 
  • These features make it a very potent weapon for Counter Insurgency /Counter-Terrorism operations by security agencies
  • The carbine has been designed as per Indian Army’s GSQR, by Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), a Pune based laboratory of DRDO. 
  • The Weapon is manufactured at Small Arms Factory, Kanpur while the Ammunition is manufactured at ammunition Factory, Kirkee Pune.
Source: PIB
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