Six thousand Negev Light Machine Guns (LMGs) have been acquired for the Indian Army from Israel as part of India’s emergency purchase of arms amid tension on the border with China. A Defense Ministry official said on Thursday that on March 19 last year, adopting the fast-track process, India signed a Rs 800 crore deal with Israel to buy 16,479 Negev light machine guns (LMGs), so that China and Pakistan on the border The combat capability of the jawans deployed on the advance fronts increased. The army has received the first shipment of six thousand LMGs in Mumbai in mid-January