Angel of War
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Army has no choice. They can't import 155/52 Cal artillery , now they will be forced to buy ATAGS under any circumstancesonly if Army is willing to induct ATAGS.
If the order for 200 Vajras gets finalised , I'll be dancing head over heels. But to be honest , you don't need SP artillery for the holding corps except for the RAPID divisions in some holding corps . The realistic requirement is 17 SP regiments ( all 3 regiments of divisional arty brigade of the three Armoured divisions should be Self Propelled for a total of 3*3= 9 SP regiments and each RAPID should have one SP regiment in div arty brigade to support the armoured brigade in the division . This is for a total of 8 RAPIDs , so 1*8=8. The total being 9+8=17 regiments )And we seriously lack SP Artillery. PLA has them and Pakistanis have also inducted them in large numbers.
Ground-based radars like Swathi will easily locate the location of these batteries and their positions will be vulnerable to enemy arty as well. And this is where SP artillery come in play. It will allow them to "shoot-and-scoot" thereby avoiding counter-battery fire.
Not quite easy , performance of Counter battery radars is severly degraded in hilly terrain , also , Gun positions are carefully examined and usually dug in on reverse slope of a hill , this protects it from enemy counter battery fire .I think that our towed batteries will be destroyed by PLA easily in case of conflict.
I've got a feeling they won't . But your concerns are legit .It will be interesting to see what Army is thinking about this. I just hope that they don't make a mess just like they did in the rifles.
Actually that's not what Corps of signals is meant to do . They are responsible for providing networked communications , ESM and ECM capabilities. One system called the samyukta essentially is very effective in ESM and ECM profiles. Networked communications has got a massive boost with the implementation of ASCON phase IV.but in Signal core there is a lot of work to do.
We don't have a dedicated cyber warfare unit.
ISTAR is getting a boost , although it's again not in the mission profile of corps of signals but rather the air force https://www.livefistdefence.com/indias-3-billion-istar-takes-shape-mod-clearance-this-year/You know what happend in 2019 Indo-Pak showdown and in 2020 Galwan.
We are heavily dependent on Israel for ELINT and SIGINT equipments. Almost every equipment is imported from Israel.
We don't have a robust ISTAR systems and communications.
It's a long way to go , but steps are being taken .Alot needs to be done by Army, DRDO and MoD for the signal corp if we really want to dominate China.
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