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.
Ministry of Earth Sciences secretary M. Rajeevan says approvals are being obtained for the 'futuristic and game-changing' mission, likely to be launched in 3-4 months.
The defence ministry said the system is capable of detecting and tracking targets on the move. According to officials, the missile uses all indigenous subsystems.
The Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) was tested at 1145 hours from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island, earlier known as Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast.
The narrations linked to ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ sit far outside authenticated Hadith literature, yet modern amplification has turned a weak report into a slogan with political afterlife.
Once acquired by IAF, the medium transport aircraft (MTA) will replace both AN-32s and IL-76s, it is learnt. The idea behind the revamp is to meet modern operational needs.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
“You can be eight kilometers behind their strike range but still hit them,” he said.” – After a long time, we are hearing DRDO talking about something interesting. But, why is ATAGS a towed gun. Why is it not a “shoot-and-scoot” howitzer like Bofors? Isn’t this an handicap in the battle field. Or is it made dowed gun because it can stay beyond the strike range of enemy howitzers. But, these days, one should think of attacks by drones on the position of these howitzers, as has happened between Azerbaizan and Armenia.
The question is how long will the indian companies take to supply 1800 guns . If it take 20 years like tejas then we might as well forget them.the germans built the great Tiger tank but could not produce the quantities. Finally they were overrun by the inferior Soviet tanks . So making something fancy is ok for show not during real battle times. Our tea requirements are 80 to a hundred. We produce only 8 in a year. So it’s going to take 10 years by that time new technologies will make tejas flying coffins.
Boss..changes can be made only if given chances to drdo even after sucessfull completion. If u want to grow indigeous weapon you have to invest and trust them rathet than trusting a foreign vendor and asking to compete is nonsense wen we have not allowed economies of scale to compete with cost factor.
“You can be eight kilometers behind their strike range but still hit them,” he said.” – After a long time, we are hearing DRDO talking about something interesting. But, why is ATAGS a towed gun. Why is it not a “shoot-and-scoot” howitzer like Bofors? Isn’t this an handicap in the battle field. Or is it made dowed gun because it can stay beyond the strike range of enemy howitzers. But, these days, one should think of attacks by drones on the position of these howitzers, as has happened between Azerbaizan and Armenia.
The question is how long will the indian companies take to supply 1800 guns . If it take 20 years like tejas then we might as well forget them.the germans built the great Tiger tank but could not produce the quantities. Finally they were overrun by the inferior Soviet tanks . So making something fancy is ok for show not during real battle times. Our tea requirements are 80 to a hundred. We produce only 8 in a year. So it’s going to take 10 years by that time new technologies will make tejas flying coffins.
Maybe someone should ask the designers how much the gun weights and how will they solve issues of battlefield mobility.
Boss..changes can be made only if given chances to drdo even after sucessfull completion. If u want to grow indigeous weapon you have to invest and trust them rathet than trusting a foreign vendor and asking to compete is nonsense wen we have not allowed economies of scale to compete with cost factor.