The German-made sophisticated guns are being used by a special US Air Force military organisation Star Gate Command for urban warfare.
The ministry of home affairs would procure the weapons for the state police commandos as part of police modernization programme, sources said.
The ministry would be procuring 775 MP5A3 series guns this year, the source said adding that the state home department has also sent relevant documents to the ministry in connection with the matter.
Besides, the ministry would also provide 3500 AK series and 3000 Indian Small Arms System (Insas) rifles for the state police, the source added.
The move comes at a time when the Loktak Protection Force (LPF) set up by the state has been equipped with three US-made hovercraft to flush out militants from Loktak, the biggest fresh water lake in the northeast.
Security officials said rebels belonging to various organisations had put up at huts built on floating phumdis (thick bio-mass), deep inside the adjoining areas to the lake like the Keibul Lamjao National Park, which is home to the rare brow antlered deer, locally known as Sangai.
Three high-tech hovercraft landed in the Bishnupur district on Wednesday and are being kept at Toubul village on the banks of the lake.
