Friday, 20 May, 2022
TopicArtillery guns

Topic: Artillery guns

Boost for indigenous firepower: ATAGS set for final trial, Dhanush clears fresh firing test

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Dhanush needed fresh trials after Army flagged production quality issues. Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System was found to have 'inconsistency' in overall performance in trials last June.

Israel’s ATHOS gun system or Atmanirbhar ATAGS? Defence negative list to finalise next week

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The towed gun system is part of Army’s Field Artillery Rationalisation Plan that was drawn up in 1999. An Israeli firm has been in the race for over two years now.

ATAGS howitzer best artillery gun in world, no need for imports, says DRDO

ANI -
DRDO said the gun system is far better than the legendary Bofors in the Indian Army along with any other artillery guns in the world including the ATHOS gun offered by Israel.

How Army’s artillery modernisation plan, stuck in a rut after Bofors, is picking up pace

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
The Army’s artillery modernisation plans have picked up pace since 2010 and have a major indigenous component in them.  

Indian Army targets PoK terror camps with artillery guns after Pakistan violates ceasefire

ANI -
Four launch pads were targeted in PoK's Neelam valley, after an unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistan to push infiltrators into India.

Artillery weapons including K9 Vajra & M777 howitzers to be inducted into India’s defence

PTI -
K9 Vajra is the first ever artillery gun manufactured by the Indian private sector.

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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif | ShehbazSharif/Facebook

Pakistan’s being governed by London Sharif and Islamabad Sharif. But they’re not on same page

F.S Aijazuddin -
The disintegration of Sri Lanka is a warning. Ethnic divisions, economic mismanagement, and a horrendously uneconomic port— each has a parallel in Pakistan.
West must decide the end goal of war. Ukraine is being destroyed

West must decide the end goal of war. Ukraine is being destroyed

Farmhands operate a thresher while harvesting a wheat field in the Panipat district of Haryana | Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloomberg

How food prices play out in India this year will depend on global inflation and local rains

Economy

A shopkeeper arranges stock at a grocery store in Bengaluru | Representational image | Bloomberg Photo

Inflation raised monthly expenses of 92% Indian families in last 3 months, finds online survey

ThePrint Team -
A LocalCircles poll found that 70% of respondents felt their monthly household budget increased by 10% while 55% expected expenses to go up by another 10% in the next 3 months.

Defence

File photo of a defence personnel armed with a SiG 716 rifle near the Line of Control | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

India to ink ‘repeat order’ deal for 73,000 SiG 716 rifles from the US

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In February 2019, 72,400 SiG 716 rifles of 7.62 x 51mm calibre were contracted from SIG Sauer Inc, USA, under government's 'Buy (Global) category', through fast track procedure.

National Interest

How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels

Shekhar Gupta -
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.

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