page_title: Border Security Force
section_title: Sub-machine guns and carbines
hierarchical_section_title: Border Security Force / Equipment / Sub-machine guns and carbines
caption_attribution_description: MP5K Submachine Gun Primary function: Anti-personnel. Length: 12.8 in. Weight: 4.4 lbs. Caliber: 9 mm NATO. Maximum effective range: 100 meters. Cyclic rate of fire: 900 rounds per minute.
context_page_description: The Border Security Force is India's Primary border guarding organisation on its border with Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is one of the three Border Guarding Forces OF India, and was raised in the wake of the 1965 War on 1 December 1965, "for ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected there with".
  It is a paramilitary force charged with guarding India's land border with Pakistan and Bangladesh during peacetime and preventing transnational crime at the same, it has various active roles during an outbreak of war. It is comes under Ministry of Home Affairs. The BSF has its own cadre of officers but its head, designated as a Director-General, since its raising has been an officer from the Indian Police Service. The BSF has grown exponentially from a few battalions in 1965, to 186 battalions with a sanctioned strength of 257,363 personnel including an expanding air wing, marine wing, an artillery regiment, and commando units. It currently stands as the world's largest border guarding force. BSF has been termed as the First Line of Defence of Indian Territories.
context_section_description: Heckler & Koch MP5K and A3 variants 9 mm ×19 mm SMG
  Beretta MX4 Storm submachine guns. 68000 SMGs procured and replaced the SAF Carbine 1A.
caption: Heckler & Koch MP5
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