{"id":89325,"date":"2019-11-04T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2019-11-04T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:46:42","slug":"indian-army-to-have-first-dhanush-regiment-by-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-to-have-first-dhanush-regiment-by-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Army to have first Dhanush regiment by March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Indian\nArmy will have the first regiment, using Dhanush artillery guns, in place by\nMarch 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Dhanush\nArtillery Guns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dhanush is the first indigenous long-range\nartillery gun.<\/li><li>It has been developed by Ordnance Factory Board\n(OFB), Kolkata and manufactured by the Jabalpur-based Gun Carriage Factory. <\/li><li>The design of Dhanush is based on the Swedish Bofors\nHaubits FH77 which India imported in the 1980s.<\/li><li>Dhanush gun was officially inducted in Indian Army\nin April 2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features of Dhanush:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It has a caliber of 155mm x 45mm.<\/li><li>It has a range of 36km and has demonstrated a\nrange of 38 km with specialised ammunition.<\/li><li>The gun is fitted with an inertial navigation\nsystem having global positioning system (GPS)-based gun recording and\nauto-laying, and an enhanced tactical computer for on-board ballistic\ncomputations.<\/li><li>It also has an on-board muzzle velocity\nrecording, an automated gun sighting system equipped with camera, thermal\nimaging, and laser range finder.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ordnance Factory\nBoard (OFB) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an industrial organisation, functioning\nunder the Department of Defence Production of Ministry of Defence. It came into\nexistence in 1979 and is headquartered in Kolkata. <\/li><li>It is engaged in research, development,\nproduction, testing, marketing and logistics of a comprehensive product range\nin the areas of air, land and sea systems. <\/li><li>OFB comprises 41 ordnance factories, 9 Training\nInstitutes, 3 Regional Marketing Centres and 4 Regional Controller of Safety.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Indian Army will have the first regiment, using Dhanush artillery guns, in place by March 2020 Facts: About Dhanush Artillery Guns Dhanush is the first indigenous long-range artillery gun. It has been developed by Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), Kolkata and manufactured by the Jabalpur-based Gun Carriage Factory. The design of Dhanush is based&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-to-have-first-dhanush-regiment-by-march-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Army to have first Dhanush regiment by March 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6770],"class_list":["post-89325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-dhanush-guns","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704876219},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89325","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=89325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}