Indian Army Artillery

[Indx TechStyle]

Great news that the contract for 145 M-777 ULH has finally been inked. Hope the deal for 100 K-9 SPH too is inked soon. Parikar and Modi make Antony and Sonia Gandhi look like lame ducks who wasted 10 years by blacklisting all possible defence manufacturers.

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[Kunal Biswas]

Soltam had issues with relation to corruption which got it banned with OFB artillery division for some time.

Besides, The angle of elevation was limited in the soltam design, This was latter rectified with Indian design ..

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2001-2002, Indian efforts to design upgrade M46, But has issues in design specially metallurgy.

2005-2008, This design came out with new muzzle breaker, But it too has issues same as earlier one.

2009, This design came out with help of soltam, It works fine but has issues with elevation.

Latter this year, OFB announced to upgrade rest of the M46 with its older design, But the change is that it utalised 80% of already proven dhanush.

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Baba Kalyani.co also shown similar upgrade during 2014 defexpo.

Kunal

 

[India22]

Soltam had issues with relation to corruption which got it banned with OFB artillery division for some time.

Besides, The angle of elevation was limited in the soltam design, This was latter rectified with Indian design ..

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Baba Kalyani.co also shown similar upgrade during 2014 defexpo.

Did they install new fire controlling methods also like enhanced tactical computer, Ballistic calculations on board?

 

[Kunal Biswas]

No, Its not part of the upgrade the upgrade based on requirement prepared by Army ask for 155mm of 45cal gun.

Did they install new fire controlling methods also like enhanced tactical computer, Ballistic calculations on board?

 

[India22]

@Kunal Biswas any info as to why this was not accepted in Indian service? SK K9 is damn costly.

 

[sbm]

Thanks Kunal. So how many 130mm were actually upgraded? 36 or 180? I would hope more are being upgraded as a priority.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

K9 cleared trails with success while other either failed or pulled back ..

@Kunal Biswas any info as to why this was not accepted in Indian service? SK K9 is damn costly.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

I really don`t have the knowledge how many are upgraded ..

 

[Kunal Biswas]

It was called ARZU, A mated version of Arjun chassis and Slovakian turret..

It was a gud option, But Slovakian pulled back and let Russian take over and compete with Koreans ..

Which we know, Russian loses to Koreans ..

Actually its export version of 155mm SpGH ZUZANA. Built around 1990 in Slovakia, but hadn't seen any production. Wonder if BEML has undertaken any production of it or not.

Say hello to BEML Himalaya

 

[Prashant12]

TATA 155 mm Howitzer

 

[India22]

It was called ARZU, A mated version of Arjun chassis and Slovakian turret..

It was a gud option, But Slovakian pulled back and let Russian take over and compete with Koreans ..

Which we know, Russian loses to Koreans ..

We cant even mount a 155mm Gun on tank chassis. Btw what was the name of Russian SPG? In many cases I think if we build a SPG on T 72 chassis it would help us, as we have license to produce T 72, but not K 9.

 

[sbm]

Thanks for the guidance though. Will keep looking.

 

[India22]

@Kunal Biswas can you tell what propellant charge and explosive Indian army uses in artillery shells?

Also if 160mm Mortar falls to artillery's category why DRDO is not building one? A breach loading 160mm Mortar?

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Go through the thread for more information, Also Defense research organization is part of Government of India so does Army, It only work when one wing issues a requirement to other for needed hardware, It does not act on its own.

@Kunal Biswas can you tell what propellant charge and explosive Indian army uses in artillery shells?

Also if 160mm Mortar falls to artillery's category why DRDO is not building one? A breach loading 160mm Mortar?

We cant even mount a 155mm Gun on tank chassis. Btw what was the name of Russian SPG? In many cases I think if we build a SPG on T 72 chassis it would help us, as we have license to produce T 72, but not K 9.

 

[sbm]

The single 160mm Tampella regiment is on its way out. Production of the type has apparently ceased and spares and ammunition are becoming difficult to obtain.

 

[India22]

The single 160mm Tampella regiment is on its way out. Production of the type has apparently ceased and spares and ammunition are becoming difficult to obtain.

Russian 160mm Mortar is better than Tampala. Russian Mortar is breach loading therefore easier to reload. Also Tampala fires 38kg bomb filled when Russian mortar fires 40 kg bomb. Tampala has better range anyway. In my opinion, army should issue orders to produce them. Bangladeshis have 8inch mortars.

 

[Chinmoy]

It was called ARZU, A mated version of Arjun chassis and Slovakian turret..

It was a gud option, But Slovakian pulled back and let Russian take over and compete with Koreans ..

Which we know, Russian loses to Koreans ..

Thanks for the update. But IMO ZUZANA in 2nd pic is a much more practical design then ARZU as far as the miniature models goes.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

The vehicle its mounted is TATRA which we license manufacture at BEML only ..

Thanks for the update. But IMO ZUZANA in 2nd pic is a much more practical design then ARZU as far as the miniature models goes.

 

[Bornubus]

what are those rings on mortars

That's propellent increments.

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[Brij Ray]

A year ago In an NDTV show, Chalte-Chalte, hosted by Shekhar Gupta, Baba Kalyani mentioned that his company was able to reduce the weight of the "Indian field Gun" to 900 Kgs from 4 tons. That is some massive reduction in weight to consider. Is Indian Government aware of such developments done by Indian companies?