{"id":182483,"date":"2022-05-03T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=182483"},"modified":"2022-05-03T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:46:13","slug":"indigenous-towed-artillery-guns-complete-firing-trials-paving-way-for-induction-into-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indigenous-towed-artillery-guns-complete-firing-trials-paving-way-for-induction-into-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous towed artillery guns complete firing trials, paving way for induction into army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has successfully conducted the trials of the indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System(ATAGS).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System(ATAGS)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>ATAGS <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a large calibre Gun system with the capability to program and fire future Long-Range Guided Munitions (LRGM) to achieve precision and deep strike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed for<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Indian Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and manufactured by Bharat Forge and Tata Power SED.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Features of ATAGS<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Range:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It consists of a barrel, breech mechanism, muzzle brake and recoil mechanism to fire 155 mm calibre ammunition with a firing range of 48 kilometres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Maintainance Free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The system is configured with an all-electric drive that will ensure maintenance-free and reliable operation over long periods of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Advanced Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is integrated with advanced features like high mobility, quick deployability, auxiliary power mode, automatic command and control system and an advanced communication system with night vision capability in direct-fire mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Firing Capability:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It can fire three rounds in 15 seconds in burst mode, and as many as 60 rounds in 60 minutes in sustained mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Indigenous towed artillery guns complete firing trials, paving way for induction into army<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span> <b>TOI<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on<\/span><b> 2nd May 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? India has successfully conducted the trials of the indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System(ATAGS). What is the Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System(ATAGS)? ATAGS is a large calibre Gun system with the capability to program and fire future Long-Range Guided Munitions (LRGM) to achieve precision and deep strike. Developed for: Indian Army.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indigenous-towed-artillery-guns-complete-firing-trials-paving-way-for-induction-into-army\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indigenous towed artillery guns complete firing trials, paving way for induction into army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-182483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913624},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}