From what i heard out of 100,around 30-40 are still operational.No new ammo procured.Old ammo stocks being probably used up as a sort of last ride before being phased out.Its range and the weight of the shell is good for long range interdiction.
From what i heard out of 100,around 30-40 are still operational.No new ammo procured.Old ammo stocks being probably used up as a sort of last ride before being phased out.Its range and the weight of the shell is good for long range interdiction.
Bloody hell !!
Guys @Parthu @Ashwin @randomradio @vstol Jockey @Falcon @_Anonymous_ @Sathya @BlackOpsIndia et al look at this.
Elbit beats Nexter in epic battle to win Indian 155 mm, 52 calibre towed gun competition - SP's Land Forces
First Dhanush now this. Indian Artillery scene is looking up. Army went from being the laggard to outdoing everybody.
Guys @Parthu @Ashwin @randomradio @vstol Jockey @Falcon @_Anonymous_ @Sathya @BlackOpsIndia et al look at this.
Elbit beats Nexter in epic battle to win Indian 155 mm, 52 calibre towed gun competition - SP's Land Forces
First Dhanush now this. Indian Artillery scene is looking up. Army went from being the laggard to outdoing everybody.
Bloody hell !!
Guys @Parthu @Ashwin @randomradio @vstol Jockey @Falcon @_Anonymous_ @Sathya @BlackOpsIndia et al look at this.
Elbit beats Nexter in epic battle to win Indian 155 mm, 52 calibre towed gun competition - SP's Land Forces
First Dhanush now this. Indian Artillery scene is looking up. Army went from being the laggard to outdoing everybody.
Why are we buying it ?
How is it better than ATAGS ?
Why don't we buy mounted instead ?
DRDO has given no objection to purchase of 400 odd of these towed guns,because ATAGS needs weight to be reduced and will take another few years to mature.It will fulfill the 1200 towed gun order after these 400.These 400, dhanush,m46 sharang upgrade and ULHM777 will fulfill immediate requirements.
Bloody hell !!
Guys @Parthu @Ashwin @randomradio @vstol Jockey @Falcon @_Anonymous_ @Sathya @BlackOpsIndia et al look at this.
Elbit beats Nexter in epic battle to win Indian 155 mm, 52 calibre towed gun competition - SP's Land Forces
First Dhanush now this. Indian Artillery scene is looking up. Army went from being the laggard to outdoing everybody.
Under this govt, everybody has done equally well.
The navy's scored ships and submarines, along with major movement on medium helicopters.
The air force has scored Rafales, S-400s and a lot of other stuff.
The army has scored SAMs, artillery guns, rifles, BPJs, ammo etc, and major movement on new artillery guns, tanks etc.
It's just a propaganda article, I question its timing. We are not buying this, ATAGS was realized for that requirement. We will buy 414 Dhanush and 1180 ATAGS. This is what Israel-Kalyani did with Spike deal when RM chose DRDO MPATGM. They are aiming for orders of 300 Dhanush which is 84% indigenous. Cuz for ATAGS BFL is already a partner though they will lose to TATA, hence they want the bigger piece of the pie. The army conducted trials of BFL's ULH too and first trials were successful. For mounted one, there is Dhanush also BFL ULH. That's where Kalyani should focus.
Actually DRDO itself gave no objection to purchase 400 towed guns.Dhanush is going to come even beside that.Our gun requirement is huge.
ATAGS with 1180 order after that.
If 400 ATHOS is chosen,its likely for commonality army might also choose mounted version ATMOS also from israel/kalyani for 814 mounted gun system order.
Nope 414 orders are for Dhanush
That's why they want Dhanush out, see the bigger picture. I guess the army rejected BFL's mounted ULH cuz we imported M777. I believe GoI they won't import more, that's why BAE is supporting OFB-BEML.
Dhanush order is seperate from this.Dhanush is 114 plus 300.
Dhanush is being built by OFB,a PSU .Govt wont touch that.These guns will be produced by pvt companies.
I thought you & @R!cK had a rousing debate a few months ago where he dissed the GoI performance on its procurement plans and you being you justified it as very good , promising to compile a list come elections to highlight the "good " They did. Well, it's election time now.
Acc. to Indian Army's Field Artillery Rationalisation Programme (FARP), 1999, Total requirement is around 1600. Dhanush is there until ATAGS gets ready.
Yep, will do it pretty soon. I'm waiting for all CCS approvals to come in also, which is still ongoing. I guess it will end once voting begins.