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"India has become a world center of artillery": foreign press on the results of the abandonment of Soviet weapons

«India has become the world center of artillery»: foreign press on the results of the abandonment of Soviet weapons
Howitzer ATAGS

As a result of the abandonment of the operation of outdated Soviet weapons in India, an entire branch of the military-industrial complex was created., producing various artillery systems. The greatest variety is typical for towed howitzers.

The most massive among them is the 155 mm Dhanush, created as a result of technology transfer based on the Swedish FH77B. The Indian Army acquired hundreds of the latter in the 1980s, and they performed well during the Kargil War in 1998 year. Possessing a four-wheel carriage, hydraulic drive, helping with loading, and modernized barrel, Dhanush firing various types of ammo (including rockets) at a distance to 38 km.

Its competitor is the ATAGS 155mm towed howitzer. (Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System). She is currently completing her testing phase.. Under the umbrella of the Kalyani Group, steel mill owner, on which the weapon is produced, another system was developed - the 155-mm Bharat-52 based on the Israeli Soltam gun / ATHOS. To keep up with the private, OFB (Arms Factory Council, led by the Ministry of Defense) manufactures the same howitzer called Sharang.

Other Indian manufacturer, Larsen & Toubro, acquired licenses for two world-class guns. These are the French-made 155-mm TRAJAN or TRF1 towed howitzer and the South Korean self-propelled howitzer K9 Thunder, renamed Vajra. Currently Vajra is the main self-propelled howitzer of the Indian Army after, how the local analogues of the Catapult were decommissioned, Soviet 2S1 "Gvozdika" and British Abbot. However, Vajra's success did not extend to TRAJAN..

«India has become the world center of artillery»: foreign press on the results of the abandonment of Soviet weapons
Howitzer Dhanush

The Indian Army is also searching for a howitzer on a car chassis.. Kalyani Group tried to answer the call, firing a light 155-mm howitzer on a car platform, opposing the licensed TATA Defense to the Denel T5 gun.

In general, the military-industrial sector of India can mass-produce several models of 155-mm towed howitzers. (Dhanush, sharang, ATAGS, Bharat-52, Bharat ULH, TRAJAN) and the same number of self-propelled guns of this type
– noted in the foreign edition of 21AAR.

Wherein, as noted, smaller caliber artillery pieces, as well as mortars and recoilless rifles are produced exclusively at OFB facilities.

Given the existing production base and export potential, can no longer ignore India's status as a world center of artillery
– conclusion is made in the foreign press.

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