Indian Army: weapons, equipment - Revision history

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 The Army has been demanding ultra-light howitzers like the M-777s for over 15 years as part of the plan to build robust conventional deterrence against China. Weighing just over 4-tonne due to the use of titanium, the M-777 can swiftly be airlifted by helicopters and aircraft to high-altitudes areas up to 16,000-feet in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control with China.
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 ==2019/Spike anti-tank guided missiles==
 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL/2019/10/04&entity=Ar02114&sk=976F22B2&mode=text  Rajat Pandit . Oct 4, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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 Senior dignitaries from armed forces Lt Gen P K Shrivastava, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, DG Artillery & Col Comdt, Lt Gen R S Salaria, VSM, Comdt, SOA, Maj Gen Manmeet Singh, MG Arty HQ Western Command, Controller CQA(W), Commandant JOD, WDET Programme coordinator and his team were present.
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 Similarly , the procurement case for 5.56 x 45 mm CQB carbines, with an effective 200metres range, was re-launched recently after the earlier one was scrapped last year. The defence ministry had junked the earlier case, dating back to 2006, on the ground that it had become “a resultant single vendor situation“. The story of the 7.62 mm x 51mm caliber light machine guns is similar, with the Army back to square one after a long-winded procurement process. The defence ministry in August “retracted“ the tender because only IWI was left in the fray after protracted field trials from December 2015 to February 2017.
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 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL/2019/10/04&entity=Ar02114&sk=976F22B2&mode=text  Rajat Pandit . Oct 4, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
 Indian infantry soldiers finally have a new weapon to destroy advancing enemy tanks on the western front with Pakistan. The Army has begun to induct a limited number of Israeli Spike anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) to meet immediate operational requirements till indigenous man-portable “tank killers” being developed by DRDO are ready for induction.
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	The Army has been demanding ultra-light howitzers like the M-777s for over 15 years as part of the plan to build robust conventional deterrence against China. Weighing just over 4-tonne due to the use of titanium, the M-777 can swiftly be airlifted by helicopters and aircraft to high-altitudes areas up to 16,000-feet in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control with China.		The Army has been demanding ultra-light howitzers like the M-777s for over 15 years as part of the plan to build robust conventional deterrence against China. Weighing just over 4-tonne due to the use of titanium, the M-777 can swiftly be airlifted by helicopters and aircraft to high-altitudes areas up to 16,000-feet in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control with China.
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		+	==2019/Spike anti-tank guided missiles==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL/2019/10/04&entity=Ar02114&sk=976F22B2&mode=text Rajat Pandit . Oct 4, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Indian infantry soldiers finally have a new weapon to destroy advancing enemy tanks on the western front with Pakistan. The Army has begun to induct a limited number of Israeli Spike anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) to meet immediate operational requirements till indigenous man-portable “tank killers” being developed by DRDO are ready for induction.
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		+	Sources said on Thursday that the “first lot” of the 210 Spike missiles, with a dozen launchers, “arrived in India about 10 days ago” as part of the “Army vice-chief ’s emergency procurement powers” exercised by the force amid the ongoing heightened tensions with Pakistan.
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		+	The Army moved to buy the initial amount of the fireand-forget Spike ATGMs, which have a strike range of up to 4-km, for around Rs 280 crore after the Jaish-e-Muhammed training facility in Pakistan was bombed by Indian Mirage-2000 fighters on February 26. “The order will be repeated if the man-portable ATGM being developed by DRDO is not ready by next year. We don’t want to be slowed down any longer in plugging our critical operational deficiencies by DRDO,” said an Army source.
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		+	DRDO, however, is quite confident about offering its MP-ATGM for “user trials” in 2020 after having conducted three successful trials of the weapon system at the Kurnool range in Andhra early last month. “The third-generation MP-ATGM, which has stateof-the-art infrared imaging seekers along with advanced avionics, hit the targets mimicking operational tanks in topattack mode to destroy them with precision at 2.5-km range,” said a DRDO official.
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		+	Whether it’s indigenous or Israeli man-portable “tank killers”, the fact remains that the 13-lakh strong Army has an alarming shortage of over 50% in its “authorised holding” of different kinds of shoulder-, vehicle- and helicopterlaunched ATGMs, which are crucial to halt advancing enemy tanks in the plains, as well as “bunker-bursting” across the volatile Line of Control with Pakistan.
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		+	The Army’s existing second-generation Milan-2T (2-km range) and Konkurs (4-km) ATGMs, produced by defence PSU Bharat Dynamics under licence from French and Russian firms, do not have night-fighting capabilities.
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-[[File: Rifles in Indian Army.jpg| The use of rifles in the India Army: brief history and requirements as in 2016 <br/> [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=28_09_2016_014_001_011&type=P&artUrl=Once-again-Army-starts-global-hunt-for-a-28092016014001&eid=31808   ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
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 Senior dignitaries from armed forces Lt Gen P K Shrivastava, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, DG Artillery & Col Comdt, Lt Gen R S Salaria, VSM, Comdt, SOA, Maj Gen Manmeet Singh, MG Arty HQ Western Command, Controller CQA(W), Commandant JOD, WDET Programme coordinator and his team were present.
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 ==2017: long way from modernisation==
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Small-arms-still-giving-infantry-jitters-16102017013013  Rajat Pandit, Small arms still giving infantry jitters, October 16, 2017: The Times of India]
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 Similarly , the procurement case for 5.56 x 45 mm CQB carbines, with an effective 200metres range, was re-launched recently after the earlier one was scrapped last year. The defence ministry had junked the earlier case, dating back to 2006, on the ground that it had become “a resultant single vendor situation“. The story of the 7.62 mm x 51mm caliber light machine guns is similar, with the Army back to square one after a long-winded procurement process. The defence ministry in August “retracted“ the tender because only IWI was left in the fray after protracted field trials from December 2015 to February 2017.
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	The Army has been demanding ultra-light howitzers like the M-777s for over 15 years as part of the plan to build robust conventional deterrence against China. Weighing just over 4-tonne due to the use of titanium, the M-777 can swiftly be airlifted by helicopters and aircraft to high-altitudes areas up to 16,000-feet in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control with China.		The Army has been demanding ultra-light howitzers like the M-777s for over 15 years as part of the plan to build robust conventional deterrence against China. Weighing just over 4-tonne due to the use of titanium, the M-777 can swiftly be airlifted by helicopters and aircraft to high-altitudes areas up to 16,000-feet in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control with China.
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		+	==2018: British Band Instrument Company gets ₹31.5cr order==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F05&entity=Ar02401&sk=CB5BABF3&mode=text Naomi Canton, UK co with just 6 staffers bags ₹31.5cr deal to sell musical instruments to Indian Army, December 5, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	A small British company, with just six employees, has struck a £3.5 million (about Rs 31.5 crore) trade deal to sell musical instruments to the Indian Army.
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		+	The London-based British Band Instrument Company is sending 1,500 instruments to military bands in India via sea freight through Mumbai. There are two contracts: one to send bagpipes to 26 Indian military bands and one to send drums, cornets, trombones, tubas, flutes, clarinets, French Horns and euphoniums to 47 regimental centres.
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		+	“It’s one of the biggest contracts we’ve had,” said Alun Hughes who founded the company 10 years ago. “They want to use the same instruments they’ve historically been supplied. We provide the same quality and specification as Boosey & Hawkes. These instruments are not manufactured in India to my knowledge.”
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		+	He said Indian military bands are “almost the same as British military bands”. “It’s a Raj legacy but though people think bagpipes are Scottish, they actually emanate from Middle East (West Asia) and Indian subcontinent,” he said. Hughes has been manufacturing and repairing instruments for decades. He recalls how in the 1950s a colleague at Boosey & Hawkes, where he then worked, supplied military band instruments to maharajas. “He’d be paid in gold bullion, take it to Dubai, convert it into tolas and turn that into currency to send back to the United Kingdom.”
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		+	Hughes now manufactures under licence with the Boosey & Hawkes brand name and supplies 70 countries, many of them Commonwealth nations. A department for international Trade spokesman said: “The UK currently exports £7.9 billion of goods and services to India each year… deals like this show clear demand for our… products.”

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 India has now exorcised the ominous Bofors ghost haunting its artillery modernisation plans for the last 30 years. In the first modern 155mm artillery guns to be inducted by the Army since the 1980s, two of the 145 M-777 ultralight howitzers ordered from the US will touch down.
-Defence sources said on Wednesday the two howitzers, which will come in a chartered aircraft from the UK, will be taken to the Pokhran ranges for testing and “compilation of the firing tables“ for subsequent use. “The firing tables, with the guns being tested for different kinds of Indian ammunition with bimodular charges, will take some time to be formulated,“ said a source.
+Defence sources said the two howitzers, which will come in a chartered aircraft from the UK, will be taken to the Pokhran ranges for testing and “compilation of the firing tables“ for subsequent use. “The firing tables, with the guns being tested for different kinds of Indian ammunition with bimodular charges, will take some time to be formulated,“ said a source.
 The delivery schedule for the air-mobile howitzers, being acquired under a $737 million deal inked with the US in a government-to-government deal, will quicken from March 2019 onwards. “Five guns will then be delivered every month till all 145 are inducted by June 2021. While the first 25 guns will be imported, the remaining 120 will be assembled in India with artillery-manufacturer BAE Systems selecting Mahindra as its business partner here,“ he added.
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 Subsequent scandals revolving around other global artillery manufacturers (see graphic) , like South African Denel and Singapore Technology Kinetics, further punched gaping holes in the Army's long-range, highvolume firepower. Interestingly , the original Swedish Bofors company is now owned by BAE Systems.
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