{"id":34982,"date":"2018-10-31T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34982"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:10:57","slug":"m777-broke-due-to-faulty-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/m777-broke-due-to-faulty-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"M777 broke due to faulty shell:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/m777-broke-due-to-faulty-shell\/article19749584.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M777 broke due to faulty shell<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A preliminary investigation has found faulty ammunition to be the cause of the accident involving an M777 ultra-light Howitzer during firing trials early this month.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What was the cause?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A preliminary inquiry has found that the explosion took place due to faulty ammunition supplied by the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On September 2, the gun manufactured by BAE Systems of the U.S. was undergoing field firing for compilation of range tables when the accident occurred.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ammunition exiting the barrel broke into multiple pieces damaging it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Any such failure is attributable to a complex phenomenon pertaining to internal ballistics as the shell moves at a very high speed inside the barrel.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The $737 million deal with U.S<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last November, India signed a deal with the U.S. government under the Foreign Military Sales Program for 145 M777 guns at a cost of $737 million.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the agreement, two guns arrived in India in April for calibrating range tables and three more would arrive in September 2018 for training.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deliveries were slated to commence from March 2019 to be completed by mid-2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M777 broke due to faulty shell: Context A preliminary investigation has found faulty ammunition to be the cause of the accident involving an M777 ultra-light Howitzer during firing trials early this month. What was the cause? A preliminary inquiry has found that the explosion took place due to faulty ammunition supplied by the Ordnance Factory&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/m777-broke-due-to-faulty-shell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">M777 broke due to faulty shell:<\/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-34982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704817365},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982","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=34982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}