The drone and rocket attacks have
brought the spotlight again to the use of sophisticated weapons in Manipur’s year-long ethnic unrest so beyond general commentary, there remains little clarity on capabilities of the arms and ammunition being deployed
To bridge this information gap, India Today examined 12th of videos from the conflict areas and reviewed arms and ammunition seized by the local Manipur Police June 1,2023 to and September 12, 2024.
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Our specialised suggests that militants
are using weapons of Indian as well as from China, US, UK, and Myanmar Majority of these weapons appear to be those typically used by the Indian security forces. These include the AK-47, INSAS, 7.62mm self-loading rifles manufactured at the government-run Ishapore factory, and various Sten carbine machine gun models
advanced tecnologis Indian-made weapons,
, such as the name of ‘Ghatak,’ have also been spotted. They appear to be part of the cache looted from police armouries in Manipur since last year.
Of even greater alarming is the presence of foreign-origin arms, including the M4 carbine, an assault rifle used by all three services of the US military. the US-origin AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and its successor, the M16, as well as the German-origin 5.56 Heckler & Koch rifles.regarding the shorts detalis central government worried and distrub local people are not save their so government had took decision to deployed heavy weapon to prevent unexcepting incident.
