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I am sure you have good relations with Chimoy. People are not the same all the time with all the people - a fact I am sure you would have known from your life experiences. Anyways, My last post on this forum :-) Adios!!

Hmmm...Just last month Parrikar made the announcement that 155/52 was in the 'final' stages of being ordered. What changed in the last 4 weeks?

Thought Dhanush-52 just replaced the barrel of Dhanush-45! So Dhanush-52 is dead? That means no 52 cal gun till ATAGS is ready for production?? There was some murmur that 300 Dhanush-52 could be built (300 being the remaining part of the original intent of 414 Dhanush guns when only 114 of...

It'll probably go through some fine tuning and minor redesign/patch-work based on the user feedback; but it is unlikely to shed 25% of the weight. While no one can estimate weight by looking at how big something is, one thing folks can be sure of is that additional wheels does mean that there's...

(forget world for a moment) If a LOT of INDIAN defense equipment comes from India itself then that would be a BIG win in itself (billions of $$ saved). International markets will eventually develop for Indian equipment, which will be a huge bonus too!

With all due respect, what you're saying does not make much sense. Just look at the drawing of the ATAGS you've posted and look at the ATAGS that's being trialed and paraded on the Republic day - there's very little resemblance! (are you going to deny what you saw on the Republic day parade is...

Yeh loh bhaiyah, ee raha sourcewa!! Hame kahe padi ki khamakha tabahi machaye !! http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2016/12/indian-artillery-gun-shines-in-trials.html "These enhanced performance attributes have increased the weight of ATAGS to 16 tonnes, a couple of tonnes heavier than comparable...

I love ATAGS, it's a awesome gun for India. So don't badger me or delete my post. But I love truth and facts above everything else. The 12 ton weight was what was intended before they set out to do the detailed design and realize the product. Currently it's at 16 tons - it really doesn't make...

Do you know what the life of an ATAGS/Dhanush barrel is? I think M777 is around 1000 rounds? I agree that ATAGS is a good gun but not sure it's light years ahead! Seems like folks are going by the pre-design specs when they keep harping that ATAGS is 'light weight', the actual production has...

It's more like $80,000, the conventional shell cost around $500-$1000 (tops).

Just a word of caution: Excalibur shell costs about 100-150 TIMES the regular shell :) Even though it's worth every penny you spend on it!!!

Thought it was only 145 pieces...

That is indeed an awesome power/feature to have. But to just to keep things realistic, MRSI works only on very limited range - probably 15 kms, won't work for the full range of the gun (simple physics!)

Welcome to the club!!! There seems to be some overly sensitive vigilantes prowling the site. Few days back, I just quoted ADA chief that Tejas Mk1 does not conform to the Whitcomb Area rule (and hence not so aerodynamic), a deficiency that they intend to fix in Mk2 version. That rubbed the...

Does anyone know the life of the Dhanush or ATAGS barrel? How many rounds can it fire before requiring replacement?

All of the above listed companies make titanium based alloys (as in procure titanium from outside and mix it with other metals to make alloys); but they don't produce pure titanium per se. Only Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (obviously in Kerala) makes Titanium sponge in India that is...

Titanium is one of the most abundant minerals anywhere in the world (more abundant than copper, zinc, lead etc); but the problem is that extracting the metal from its mineral ore is very complicated and very expensive. Very few countries have mastered it - in fact even US was a late entrant to...