OFB to develop 155mm artillery guns for the Indian Army
By (FINN) Frontier India News Network | December 31st, 2011 | 10 commentsThe country’s only manufacturer of large caliber guns, the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has been approved to develop 155 mm artillery guns by the Indian Army. “Somewhere in October 2011, OFB had received the mandate to develop 155 mm caliber artillery gun by the Army,” informed RK Tiwari, PRO of the Gun Carriage Factory at Jabalpur, on a query from Frontier India.
“There will be 2 prototypes of the gun and is scheduled to be delivered by December 2012. The guns will be of caliber 155 mm 39 caliber and 155 mm 45 caliber,” he said.
Regarding the participation of private sector in the project, RK Tiwari said “we are working on 3 areas. The first is the inhouse development, which is being carried out now. The OFB Headquarter is working on the tie-ups from Indian industries. The third is the user itself, which has the long experience with the 155 mm gun. OFB has been manufacturing various facets of the 155mm gun and it is confident of the project.”
On the question of the specifications of the guns, the spokesman said that the final specs will be frozen by June 2012.
Asked if the guns will borrow from the Bofors design, the spokesman said “once you have the guns, you have the designs. There was no Transfer of Technology (ToT) for whatever the reasons. We will not be borrowing from anyone. Our design will be based on our capabilities and users requirements. We have experience in the large caliber guns and we intend to use it and innovate. Once we have the gun, we will offer it for the user trials and the users will decide on the outcome.”
The spokesman added that the research and development will be carried out entirely inhouse.
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Joseph,
Is that mean…We are free from imports? How sure are we in developing a new GUN. any way thanks for giving the gr8 news(actually i thought all this developments had been finished secretly and only news is coming now…)
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The gun will be made, put through trials, hopefully next year. So we might not be free from imports till ordered.
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“users will decide on the outcome”
When did Indian Army approve anything made indigenous without making any noise, when foreign arms industries are ready to pay huge commission for every deal. ARMY – DRDO- MOD, all are involved in this organized crime. Wait for end of December 2012 and see the fun.
Members of Organized crime would say,
mmm the quality of 155mm guns is not good.
It is not mobile enough.
It has black color paint, change it to emerald color. lol
The range of projectiles just not enough.
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