On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
I have no direct experience, however on internet forums there are fairly regular reports of the INSAS heating up to unusable temperatures after 10-20 continuous rounds. This is also said to be due to the poor quality of Indian ammunition.
Now that I think about it, one way of interpreting this is not that the weapon itself becomes inoperable but that some exposed portion of the weapon quickly becomes too hot for the human operator to handle. Inadequate heat shielding/thermal management has been an early design flaw in many modern military arms.
J. Andrew Rogers
