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Name Weapon Type Caliber Origin Notes Handguns Pistol Auto 9mm 1A: Semi-automatic pistol: 9×19mm India Canada Status: In service. Standard side-arm of the Indian Army, manufactured under license from John Inglis and Company by Ordnance Factory Board, used by special forces in small numbers.
Loehr, Neil (2004), Weapons Of The Indian Wars (Plains History Project), St. Marys, Kansas: Kaw Valley USD 321, archived from the original on May 7, 2005; Mahon, John K. (September 1958). "Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 45 (2): 254– 275. doi:10.2307/1902929. JSTOR 1902929. Morando, Paul ...
IOF .32 Revolver (also known as IOF 32 Revolver) is a six-shot handgun designed and manufactured by Field Gun Factory, Kanpur. [1] [2] The revolver is priced at Rs.79,263 (approx. $1100 USD in late 2020) (ex-Kanpur) due to a lack of competition from private manufacturers. [3]
The pistol was in use in India, to some extent at any rate, early in the 18th century. For instance, it was with a shot from a pistol that in October 1720 a young Sayyad, related to Husain Ali Khan, killed that nobleman's assassin. The pistol was confined to the higher ranks of the nobles, very few soldiers having European pistols and tabanchah.
These features would later be retro-fitted to the Tower Model 1835 and Model 1840 pistols. [20] Indian horse pistols in .65 and later .577 calibre were produced at British-controlled arsenals such as Lucknow from 1796 [21] to 1856, [22] and were favoured by big game hunters before the invention of the double barreled howdah pistol.
Similar to the Uzi, the Asmi is a straight blowback submachine gun with a side-folding stock, a low rate of fire, and its magazine is loaded inside of the pistol grip. The ASMI has two barrel configurations: 7.2-inch (180 mm) and 6.5-inch (170 mm) barrel, and has a weight of around 2 kilograms (4.4 lb). [12] [13]
Double-barrel .50 caliber (13mm) howdah pistol made in Germany Breech of the same pistol open for loading. This particular weapon was made for a left-handed user. The howdah pistol was a large-calibre handgun, often with two or four barrels, used in Africa and India from the beginning of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century during the British Empire era.
Ashani (also known as IOF .32 pistol) [2] is a semi-automatic.32 calibre (7.65 mm) pistol designed and manufactured by the Ordnance Factory Board's Gun and Shell Factory and Rifle Factory Ishapore. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The pistol is manufactured for concealed carry when permitted.