{"id":28255,"date":"2018-10-24T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28255"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:01:05","slug":"army-to-get-artillery-guns-from-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/army-to-get-artillery-guns-from-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Army to get artillery guns from September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Army to get artillery guns from September<\/a><\/p>\n

News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The Army will be inducting two types of artillery guns into its arsenal very shortly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

    2. These will be the first induction of heavy artillery since the Swedish Bofors guns imported in the 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n

    3. The Army will start taking delivery of the K9 Vajra-T tracked self-propelled artillery guns from South Korea.<\/p>\n

    4. The first regiment of 18 guns is expected to be ready by the third quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n

    5. All the 100 guns will be delivered by Nov 2020.<\/p>\n

    6. It will also receive four M777 ultra-light howitzers from the U.S. The M777 is a 155-mm, 39-calibre towed artillery gun .<\/p>\n

    7. The first 10 guns will be imported from South Korea and the rest manufactured by L&T in India.<\/p>\n

    8. Last year, the Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Hanwa Techwin of South Korea signed a contract to manufacture the K9 Vajra-T guns.<\/p>\n

    9. The K9 was shortlisted by the Army after extensive trials.<\/p>\n

    10. K9 Vajra-T is a 155-mm, 52-calibre self-propelled artillery gun with a maximum range of 40 km, customised from the original K9 Thunder gun. The fire control system has been customised for desert conditions to the requirements of the Army.<\/p>\n

    11. In November 2016, India signed a deal for 145 M777 ULHs with the U.S. under the Foreign Military Sales programme .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Army to get artillery guns from September News: The Army will be inducting two types of artillery guns into its arsenal very shortly. Important facts: 2. These will be the first induction of heavy artillery since the Swedish Bofors guns imported in the 1980\u2019s. 3. The Army will start taking delivery of the K9 Vajra-T… Continue reading Army to get artillery guns from September<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704840001},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28255","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}