Indigenously produced Bofor Guns

[SPIEZ]

You mean to say India needs guns which fires backwards towards OFV and MoD ??

with restriction on imports we will be self sustained in the defense arena, i.e. we will not have to worry about sanctions and what not. But again economists are of the opinion that this mindset of home production of weapons is a Soviet era mindset, and imports bring in crucial technology and friends too.

 

[sayareakd]

Mr Saint Antony says India has sufficient guns ? It is statement from the RM so how dare you say there are no guns. Who knows it better MoD babu or you ?

Well it is half truth, he didnt care to tell which guns he was talking about must be 105 mm guns, against 155 it is useless..

 

[Bhadra]

i know much better dont you know that

You may be knowing about yourself not the defence of India which is the job of a peon in MoD !!

 

[Bhadra]

with restriction on imports we will be self sustained in the defense arena, i.e. we will not have to worry about sanctions and what not. But again economists are of the opinion that this mindset of home production of weapons is a Soviet era mindset, and imports bring in crucial technology and friends too.

with what ever you say we will have another 1962 !!

 

[Tshering22]

with restriction on imports we will be self sustained in the defense arena, i.e. we will not have to worry about sanctions and what not. But again economists are of the opinion that this mindset of home production of weapons is a Soviet era mindset, and imports bring in crucial technology and friends too.

Well a self-imposed ban on 100% procurements should be enforced on foreign-obsessed armed services like Army and IAF. Both should only be able to acquire either co-produced (technical involvement also) or total indigenous weapons. 100% foreign made weapons imports should be banned. Only then Army and IAF will learn a bitter lesson of not going for everything foreign for under-the-table commission.

 

[SPIEZ]

Well a self-imposed ban on 100% procurements should be enforced on foreign-obsessed armed services like Army and IAF. Both should only be able to acquire either co-produced (technical involvement also) or total indigenous weapons. 100% foreign made weapons imports should be banned. Only then Army and IAF will learn a bitter lesson of not going for everything foreign for under-the-table commission.

True, but look at the best weapons developers most of them have gone put. With import, India will have the best technology, but home production and development and R&D requires more support. Don't blame the Army/IAF I believ they aren't the deciding authority on imports.

 

[blueblood]

Mr Saint Antony says India has sufficient guns ? It is statement from the RM so how dare you say there are no guns. Who knows it better MoD babu or you ?

IA really has sufficient number of guns. Caliber is the only problem.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Thank god..

 

[gogbot]

Published February 28, 2012 | By admin

SOURCE: EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

Defeating the ghost of Bofors scandal that has haunted successive Congress governments, the Indian Ordinance Factory Board (OFB) has set on a daunting task of manufacturing 100 Bofors artillery guns indigenously from scratch, nearly 24 years after the first of these Swedish guns were inducted into the Indian Army.

The Indian Army has already placed an order with the OFB and the effort if successful will save the country millions and would give the country a capability to further improvise the guns to add punch to its firepower.

Speaking exclusively to Express, Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju said: "The Indian Army has put a substantial order for 100 of these Bofors guns. It is a huge task for the OFB. If we are successful, it will be a huge technology boost to the Indian defence market."

The designs are already with the OFB and the Indian Army's decision to go for 100 guns at the beginning of the project and testing the guns simultaneously as the manufacturing goes on, will cut down the time of fructification of the project.



Earlier, the Army contemplated first getting the two prototypes of the guns, then putting them to extensive field trials. Once the designs were validated, the guns were to be mass produced.



Seeing the delays in previous projects, the defence ministry has decided to set up a Monitoring Committee to oversee the progress of the project and involve the Army in the project from the beginning.

100 made-in-India Bofors artillery guns | idrw.org

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When did we know we had these designs ?

Don't we still have to pay Bofors for license production ?

we can finally make Artillery guns !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!