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    Indian Army Artillery

    Mr. Clean was incompetence personified but Dhanush and ATAGS projects were initiated under his watch. Political differences aside, no harm in admitting that a Congressi had the vision to develop/unveil some degree of indigenous arty capability when most thought none existed and import was the...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    Chidiya was a super crook as FM. He was proactive as HM and I have a wee bit of respect for the man because he raised CRPF COBRA to deal with the naxal menace but it was possible only after Communists walked out of the UPA. As for Chinese parts, they are an inalienable part of the global...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    Regardless of what Antony was, both Dhanush and ATAGS happened under his watch. Everything else is smoke onlee. Dhanush happened after FH77B was rejected as it put the UPA Govt. in a tough spot because of the past ghosts of bofors scam. Then the entire gun design magically appeared out of some...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    ATAGS and Dhanush would not have been possible without Antony uncle from Congress. During the last contest, the FH77B emerged as the winner and Congress top brass started shitting bricks and abandoned the procurement. We could've doubled it up with the Archer and had a great deal of commonality...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    ATAGS can fire zone 7 charge(s). The barrel burst happened as the OFB ammo was built to withstand only zone 6 charges and it exploded inside the barrel. Both Bharat Forge and Tata guns fired 1000 rounds with zone 7 charge(s) without any incident...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    Anyways, the Bharat-52 weights around 15 tons. Not axle-demolishing heavy.
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    Indian Army Artillery

    The next RFP will probably demand a man portable 155/52 with range that's unobtainium and till that happens, we go with vendor xyz we have shortlisted or better still, a G2G deal that puts all speculation and whining at rest. Hehe
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    Indian Army Artillery

    @AnantS World record with longest firing range of 48.074 km with HE-ERF BB. This settles the mystery once and for all. There was no raaakit assisted/VLAP round as speculated by some on Twitter.
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    Indian Army Artillery

    Given the cold treatment meted out to Tonbo in the past, shouldn't surprise us if the top comes out as less competent, cocky or plain ...never mind. Drill, PT, Parade and gardening hold greater priority in instilling soldier discipline at the TC I guess and the grunt carries the same to his...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    There are too many 'mechanical' moving parts in Athos and wonder what their availability would be in the thick of battle should there ever be one. Have they been as vigorously tested as the ATAGS? I hope MoD cracks the whip and forces a retrial between Athos, ATAGS and Dhanush(155/52).
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    Indian Army Artillery

    Maybe for the same reason why bullpups(Tavor's) were forced down SF & Para units and standardized despite the initial bunch facing serious issues. Yet they were persisted with for over a decade and a half.
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    Indian Army Artillery

    So tell me which 'indigenous' design is selected for procurement when all locally made guns have been ruled out in the print article?
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    Indian Army Artillery

    Wouldn't be surprised if the Athos sneaks in as it emerged L1 during the Arty gun trials. MoD should force another set of trials between Athos, ATAGS & Dhanush to prolong our neighbors misery. As 50% local sourcing is mandatory even for emergency procurement under the recently issued...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    So 6500/400 = 16.25 cr per gun. Odds seem less likely for ATAGS. Could be a 155/52 Dhanush or some other gun by Kalyani.
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    Indian Army Artillery

    IA blew over $930 million on 6 apaches which will add precious little in terms of capability otoh create a new logistics headache given the assortment of rotary aircraft they already operate. Those $930 million could've added some serious small arms and night fighting capability to the infantry...
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    Right.. had searched back then but could only find PZH-2000 and Germany had tested that capability. The rest were merely academic papers. Guess the journo who posted it was gassing. The round left a black smoke trail so it could have well been an ER-BB round which caught someone's fancy and...
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    I was assuming that the range @AnantS was quoting as achieved by ATAGS was with a 'rocket assisted' shell hence the reply. There was a video doing the rounds on twitter then of ATAGS firing a VLAP round and achieving the range of ~48-50 kms or more.. can't recollect for sure.
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    Indian Army Artillery

    Sure you aren't mistaking it for this one? https://www.dvidshub.net/video/778088/70-kilometer-precision-guided-artillery-shot-us-army-yuma-proving-ground US went public with the ^above when there was chatter on twitter among indian defence journos that the atags can reach 70 kms with er...
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    Indian Army Artillery

    OFB takes years to fulfill orders of 114 odd Dhanush systems and is expected to deliver the last gun from the order by 2026-27. OFB sheepishly admits 'some' parts are imported. With K-9 Vajra, contract is signed in 2017, 100th gun gets delivered by L&T in 2021... under the overhang of covid...
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