Bharat Forge has been awarded a contract worth Rs 1,661.9 crore by the Ministry of Defence to supply over 2.5 lakh Close Quarter Battle (CQB) carbines to the Indian Army. The company will be supplying 255,128 carbines over the course of five years, and the contract is confidential in nature. The CQB carbine are firearms jointly developed by DRDO and Bharat Forge.