In 2017, L&T won the Rs 4,500-crore contract to supply 100 K9 Vajras under ‘Make in India’ initiative for which it signed a transfer of technology contract with Hanwha Corporation.
They will be on mechanised columns that will showcase indigenous equipment including the Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher system and Swathi weapon-locating radar.
On 197th Gunners' Day, a look at how the Indian Army’s artillery regiment is arming itself. The Army is looking at acquiring 400 TGS which can operate in all terrains.
In inaugural SF Rodrigues Memorial Lecture, Gen. Manoj Pande says artillery will undergo structural changes. Ukraine conflict has aptly demonstrated primacy of technology, he adds.
Role of long-range vectors in non-contact warfare established. Russia-Ukraine war has shown how India needs indigenous arms industry for both arms & armament, says Army.
Rekha Singh, wife of the late Naik (Nursing Assistant) Deepak Singh, has been commissioned as lieutenant in Ordnance Corps and posted to Ladakh in same command as her husband.
In its request, Army specifies weight of gun system should preferably be less than 15 tons. This brings Israeli firm Elbit in reckoning as indigenous ATAGs are well over 18 tons.
Massed guns have proved unable to compete with precision-guided modern weapons. The final piece of a 3-part series on lessons for India's military from the Ukraine war.
Indians tend to fuss more about the damage done to the Indian psyche by Thomas B Macaulay’s infamous Minute of 1835, but he was preceded in this unholy endeavour by James Mill.
A govt official said that although ATF prices for domestic market had been expected to rise 100 per cent in April, increase was moderated to 25 per cent to cushion burden on domestic passengers.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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