I marts i år modtog forsvarsministeriet et forslag fra den indiske hær om at købe 307 Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems (ATAGS) til indsættelse langs grænserne til Kina og Pakistan.
The Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) is likely to place an order for 307 Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems (ATAGS) before the end of the current financial year, the research wing’s chairman Dr Samir V Kamat has informed ANI.
Disse våben vil blive indsat langs grænserne Indien-Kina og Indien-Pakistan.
Nævnte, at ATAGS allerede har afsluttet alle forsøgene, sagde formanden ifølge sine skøn, at ordren skulle afgives i dette regnskabsår.
DRDO udviklede 155 mm x 52 mm kaliber haubitspistol med to private partnere Tata Advanced Systems Ltd og Bharat Forge Ltd.
“DRDO has always been supporting industry. During our development phase we worked with MSMEs, and smaller industries and now for the last seven to eight years, when we have started this DcPP concept, we are even working with them as system integrators, right from the design and development stage. Private and public sectors have equal chances of getting selected as DcPP,” Dr Samir V Kamat said.
I 2023 indsatte hæren et betydeligt antal let transportable M-777 ultralette haubitser i bjergrige områder langs Line of Actual Control (LAC) i Arunachal Pradesh.
The Army’s bolstering of firepower in the forward locations of Arunachal Pradesh comes after the howitzers were deployed in several sensitive areas in the Ladakh sector amid the lingering border standoff with China.
Indien har øget sin samlede militære magt i alle strategisk vigtige områder langs den næsten 3,500 km lange LAC efter Galwan Valley-sammenstødet i juni 2020, der udløste en større eskalering af spændingerne mellem de indiske og kinesiske hære.
Med input fra nyhedsbureauerne ANI, PTI