DRDO 155mm Artillery Program

[Killswitch]

This need has been left void for so long. I have ZERO faith in the GOI to fill this need. They have had decades and done nothing. Until these guns are inducted in the hundreds I dont see any progress.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Monday, 23 August 2010

DRDO chief, arguing for developing a 155mm gun in India: 'An Indian gun will bypass difficult trials'

Business Standard has reported (29th July 10, "155 mm gun purchase: DRDO enters the fray") that the DRDO is joining hands with a private sector company to develop and manufacture an Indian gun. Now, DRDO Director General, Dr VK Saraswat, has explained the rationale for this DRDO decision. He says that, amongst the foreign guns on offer, there is no clear winner. And, given the cutthroat nature of competition for this Rs 8000 crore contract for 1580 guns, a drumbeat of corruption allegations will keep derailing any decision.

Dr Saraswat told Business Standard, "The differences [between competing guns] are miniscule and people would like to exploit those miniscule differences"¦ and [the MoD's] life becomes more difficult. The [acquisition] process is today back to zero. This is not the first time it has come to zero; this has happened before"¦. So it is better to develop your own system.

More here : Broadsword

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Picture with Spec Released >>

 

[Kunal Biswas]

New Generation Ammo possibly based on V-LAP >>

 

[The Fox]

Lets take one step at a time and not go on DRDO frenzy lets first design and build a 155 mm 52 caliber gun and then design artillery rounds for the same and then the Tanks Rounds all the type and then design a proper Assault Rifle and then go for GPS guided Precision Munition like Excalibur .............. In the mean Time we have FMS with USA lets buy some and the Unkle Obama will definitely allow it not to worry

 

[A chauhan]

We desperately need the capability to fire the next gen precision GPS/Glonass guided rounds from our artillery guns, especially so in the mountains where LGBs are difficult to use given the fog/cloud cover surrounding the heights. It would also allow us to use our ammunition more efficiently, unlike in kargil where the IA had to lay down 50000 tons of artillery rounds to take tiger hill. Such precision rounds would IMHO reduce our pressure on our logistics lines, making them available for supporting the infantry who are usually the most vulnerable to supply lines being cut.

Is there any auto-loader system for Howitzer artillery guns ? if not then DRDO should try its hands on it + GPS guided munitions as you said will be great.

 

[sayareakd]

Is there any auto-loader system for Howitzer artillery guns ? if not then DRDO should try its hands on it + GPS guided munitions as you said will be great.

yes it has auto loader.

GPS guided shells we have discuss that

http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/indian-army/5115-indian-army-artillery-70.html++
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/indian-army/5115-indian-army-artillery-84.html

ATK makes those
http://rpdefense.over-blog.com/article-cheaper-gps-shells-113665766.html

 

[nishantgupta]

yes it has auto loader.

Any reference links to check out work on auto loader? Does any other gun have auto loaders for 155 mm guns?

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Thread Merged..

 

[shuvo@y2k10]

is there any picture of kalyani group 155mm 52 caliber artillery gun?

 

[contra 101]

indigenous weapon systems are the best !

thats where our military lacks behind, we need to learn a trick or two from india who are making many weapon systems on their own.

 

[laughingbuddha]

How good is our metallurgy? The key component being the barrel.
i mean, we have hundreds if not thousands of metallurgists..professors and all. But how "good" are they really? Invention wise. Alloys etc.

 

[rock127]

How good is our metallurgy? The key component being the barrel.
i mean, we have hundreds if not thousands of metallurgists..professors and all. But how "good" are they really? Invention wise. Alloys etc.

Ashok Pillar is enough to prove how strong we were in Metallurgy and how good we can be now.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments

In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia (1500–1557), a mathematician from Brescia, published Nova scientia. It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. Tartaglia's intention was to create a purely mathematical science based on axioms, which was fundamental to the entire subject of mechanics, starting with a limited number of principles and arriving at a series of propositions through a rigid procedure of deduction. Nevertheless, as Tartaglia himself states, his motive was fundamentally practical and connected to the activities of the sixteenth-century bombardier. A new edition of Nicolò Tartaglia's Nova scientia, based on the 1558 print run of the second enlarged edition (1550), shows how the emergence of theoretical ballistics was a consequence of the technological innovations that took place in the frame of the practice of iron casting at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments

In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia (1500–1557), a mathematician from Brescia, published Nova scientia. It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. Tartaglia's intention was to create a purely mathematical science based on axioms, which was fundamental to the entire subject of mechanics, starting with a limited number of principles and arriving at a series of propositions through a rigid procedure of deduction. Nevertheless, as Tartaglia himself states, his motive was fundamentally practical and connected to the activities of the sixteenth-century bombardier. A new edition of Nicolò Tartaglia's Nova scientia, based on the 1558 print run of the second enlarged edition (1550), shows how the emergence of theoretical ballistics was a consequence of the technological innovations that took place in the frame of the practice of iron casting at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Ashok Pillar is enough to prove how strong we were in Metallurgy and how good we can be now.

History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Something has been said about the chemical excellence of cast iron in ancient India, and about the high industrial development of the Gupta times, when India was looked to, even by Imperial Rome, as the most skilled of the nations in such chemical industries as dyeing, tanning, soap-making, glass and cement... By the sixth century the Hindus were far ahead of Europe in industrial chemistry; they were masters of calcinations, distillation, sublimation, steaming, fixation, the production of light without heat, the mixing of anesthetic and soporific powders, and the preparation of metallic salts, compounds and alloys. The tempering of steel was brought in ancient India to a perfection unknown in Europe till our own times; King Porus is said to have selected, as a specially valuable gift from Alexander, not gold or silver, but thirty pounds of steel. The Moslems took much of this Hindu chemical science and industry to the Near East and Europe; the secret of manufacturing "Damascus" blades, for example, was taken by the Arabs from the Persians, and by the Persians from India."

 

[CCP]

How good is our metallurgy? The key component being the barrel.
i mean, we have hundreds if not thousands of metallurgists..professors and all. But how "good" are they really? Invention wise. Alloys etc.

You already had your answer from this project.

 

[Dark Sorrow]

How good is our metallurgy? The key component being the barrel.
i mean, we have hundreds if not thousands of metallurgists..professors and all. But how "good" are they really? Invention wise. Alloys etc.

Our metallurgy is very poor. Their is not much research done in material science in India. High grade Steel and other super-alloys are generally imported from Germany or USA.

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

Well no has found the mixture of metals in the Ashok Pillar still. We Indians have to do more research on our Vedic Science to gain more knowledge and hand on experience about our ancient technology and science.

 

[laughingbuddha]

We need innovation. Modern needs, future prospects.