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Which Countries Are Main Competitors For The Indian-Manufactured AK-203?

Ahead of Army Day on 15 January, Lt Gen Manoj Pande announced that India is going to receive its first batch of AK-203 assault rifles by March this year.
Sputnik
India's army chief announced that India is going to engage in producing niche or advanced military technologies.
“Of the more than six lakh (600,000) AK-203 assault rifles, we will receive 70,000 within 32 months," he said. "The indigenous content in these will be between 5 and 17 percent. The Rest will be 100 percent indigenous.”
The indigenous production of AK-203 is set to kick off at the facilities of Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited in Uttar Pradesh's city of Korwa, making India the first foreign country to make the AK-200 version of the world-famous Kalashnikov assault rifles.
But which countries are the major competitors for this version? Check out in our infographics.
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