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Small-arms ammunition components. Made in India.

The small, unglamorous stamped and drawn metal parts decide whether the rounds exist at all — and for decades India imported most of them. Neometrix manufactures them at home: M13 belt links in service with the Indian Navy, and turnkey cartridge-case manufacturing lines engineered to ordnance-factory specification.

M13 belt links 9 mm case line

Fig · 01 7.62×51 mm belt on M13 links — manufactured and qualified in Noida

Belt Links

7.62×51 mm

Cartridge Cases

9×19 mm

Firing Trial

0stoppages

Rated Output

15Kcases/hr

Gauge Inspection

100%

ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001 Service QA‑inspected programmes NABL‑traceable metrology GeM registered supplier Noida · India

Why Components

Ammunition readiness is a components problem.

A belt-fed weapon without links is a single-shot rifle. A loading plant without cartridge cases is a warehouse. Components are where ammunition indigenisation actually happens — tooling discipline, metallurgy, and gauge acceptance, repeated a few million times without drift.

Stamped phosphate-finish M13 disintegrating belt links

Fig · 02 Four grams of controlled spring steel — the M13 link

Policy has moved decisively in favour of making these parts at home: Buy-Indian preference under DAP‑2020, positive indigenisation lists that bar imports of listed items after set deadlines, and the progressive opening of ammunition manufacture to the licensed private sector. Public reporting describes the Army's ammunition import share falling sharply over the past decade — components such as belt links and cartridge cases are precisely where that shift becomes real hardware.

They demand no exotic technology — they demand discipline. Certified material verified through NABL-accredited laboratories before the first blank is cut. Press tooling watched for drift across a hundred thousand strokes. Heat treatment that holds a spring temper or a hardness gradient. And acceptance by hard gauge, not by eye, with a named document produced at every inspection gate.

Every lot manufactured domestically is a lot that no longer depends on a foreign production line.

The Programmes

One proven. One engineered. Same discipline.

Two component programmes, honestly labelled: a belt-link programme already in service and live-fire proven, and a turnkey case-manufacturing line engineered to ordnance-factory specification — both running on the same QA backbone.

P · 01 | IN SERVICE

7.62 mm M13 Disintegrating Belt Links

7.62 mm cartridges held by M13 belt links

The NATO-pattern link for 7.62×51 mm belt-fed weapons, manufactured to CIA 4204 in six-figure volumes for the Indian Navy — load, hinge, and salt-spray tested, 100% gauged, and live-fired with zero stoppages.

CIA 4204 · Zero Stoppages · Navy Inspected

P · 02 | TURNKEY PLANT

9×19 mm Cartridge Case Manufacturing Line

Cartridge case manufacturing transfer press line

Eight integrated processes from brass cup to gauged case — 15,000 cases per hour, Boxer and Berdan on one line, accepted by witnessed performance runs at works and at site.

8 Processes · 15K/hr Rated · Boxer + Berdan

Proven · In Service

The link programme is delivering

Six-figure volumes to CIA 4204 for the Indian Navy — qualified by load, hinge, and salt-spray testing, and live-fired with zero stoppages.

Engineered · To Specification

The case line is scoped and honest

Designed end-to-end against Indian ordnance factory requirements — and accepted only by witnessed performance runs at works and at site.

Shared · QA Backbone

One discipline behind both

NABL-traceable gauging, stage documentation, and service-QA-witnessed acceptance — the same system, whether the deliverable is a component or a plant.

Quality Backbone

Accepted by gauge, not by eye.

Ammunition components are interchangeability parts — they must work in any weapon, any climate, years after manufacture. Both programmes run the same acceptance philosophy.

QA · 01

Material First

Certified input material — spring-steel strip, cartridge-brass cups — accepted against mill test certificates and re-verified through government NABL-accredited laboratories, lot-wise, before production begins.

QA · 02

Hard Gauges

Full-form GO/NO-GO acceptance and attribute gauging on 100% of production, with multiple calibrated gauge sets per parameter — no operator judgement in the accept / reject decision.

QA · 03

Witnessed Acceptance

Stage-wise inspection with the service QA agency in the loop — sampling to DEF‑131A / IS 2500‑1, zero tolerance on critical defects, and demonstration runs where the contract demands them.

QA · 04

A Document Trail

Material certificates, stage inspection records, calibration certificates, PDI reports, trial reports — the QA file for a lot is as much the product as the metal itself.

9 mm cartridge case in a precision GO/NO-GO ring gauge on an inspection bench

Fig · 03 The acceptance decision — made by hardened steel, recorded on paper, traceable to NABL

FAQ

Common questions.

How to engage, and what we do and don't make.

Q · 01 Who do you supply?

Authorised government customers — the services and their depots and ordnance factories — and licensed private-sector ammunition manufacturers. Export enquiries are executed subject to Government of India authorisation and end-user certification, which we manage as part of the programme.

Q · 02 Do you make filled ammunition?

No — we manufacture empty metallic components (belt links in series production, cartridge cases as engineered supply programmes) and the machinery to produce them. Filling, priming, and loading remain with the customer; live-fire qualification is conducted under the service's own authority as part of acceptance.

Q · 03 Component supply or manufacturing line — which do I ask for?

If you consume components — links for belting, cases for loading — ask for component supply under your QA plan. If you are building production capability — an ordnance factory expansion or a licensed private plant — ask for the turnkey line. The two product pages carry a dedicated enquiry path for each.

Q · 04 Can you take on other calibres or component types?

Yes — engineered to order. The link system extends to 5.56 mm (M27 pattern) and 12.7 mm links; the case-line architecture extends to other pistol-calibre cases. Both are taken up against your governing specification with the same qualification regime.

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Ordnance systems from Neometrix.

Test and production systems for ammunition programmes — engineered at our Noida facility.

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Components or capability —
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The Defence Programmes desk responds within two working days. Write to [email protected] or use the form — and say whether you consume components or build capability.

M13 belt links — enquire 9 mm case line — proposal +91 7777 876 876

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Small-arms ammunition components. Made in India.

Ammunition readiness is a components problem.