does india buy athos howizer?
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It's the frontrunner for wheeled howitzer buy
Report: Elbit to Supply ATHOS 2052 Howitzers to India
Local media reported that Elbit Systems has won an Indian Army tender for artillery guns worth over $1 billion. However, the Israeli company has not yet issued any official statements on the matter
Ami Rojkes Dombe | 21/04/2019
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Source: Elbit Systems via Army Recognition
Indian media outlets report that Elbit Systems has won a tender to deliver its ATHOS (Autonomous Towed Howitzer Ordnance System) 2052 to the Indian Army, in a deal estimated at over $1 Billion. However, Elbit has not yet notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on such a deal.
“At the end of several rounds of tendering and trials since the beginning of the last decade, the Israeli company Elbit Systems has won the Indian Army’s 155 mm/52 caliber towed artillery gun competition, of which the import content alone is valued at over $1 Billion,” according to Army Recognition.
Elbit’s Indian partner for the tender is Bharat Forge. “The Elbit-Bharat Forge bid for the ATHOS 2052 howitzer was found significantly lower than that of French Nexter, which offered the Trajan gun jointly with its Indian partner Larsen & Toubro”, Indian Defense News reports.
While the requirement is for 1,580 towed guns, the majority of the systems might eventually be manufactured locally. According to the reports, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is pushing to increase local production over import. Hence it is quite possible that of the 1,580 guns, only 400 will be purchased from Elbit.
As for the acquisition of the remaining 1,180 guns, the Government may opt for the indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS), being developed by DRDO in partnership with Tata Power SED and Bharat Forge.
It should be noted that there is a constant tension between the Indian army that mostly wants imported products and the DRDO which is interested in local development. This tension was also relevant in other deals such as the spike missile and fighter aircraft.
Local media reported that Elbit Systems has won an Indian Army tender for artillery guns worth over $1 billion. However, the Israeli company has not yet issued any official statements on the matter
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Source: Elbit Systems via Army Recognition
Indian media outlets report that Elbit Systems has won a tender to deliver its ATHOS (Autonomous Towed Howitzer Ordnance System) 2052 to the Indian Army, in a deal estimated at over $1 Billion. However, Elbit has not yet notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on such a deal.
“At the end of several rounds of tendering and trials since the beginning of the last decade, the Israeli company Elbit Systems has won the Indian Army’s 155 mm/52 caliber towed artillery gun competition, of which the import content alone is valued at over $1 Billion,” according to Army Recognition.
Elbit’s Indian partner for the tender is Bharat Forge. “The Elbit-Bharat Forge bid for the ATHOS 2052 howitzer was found significantly lower than that of French Nexter, which offered the Trajan gun jointly with its Indian partner Larsen & Toubro”, Indian Defense News reports.
While the requirement is for 1,580 towed guns, the majority of the systems might eventually be manufactured locally. According to the reports, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is pushing to increase local production over import. Hence it is quite possible that of the 1,580 guns, only 400 will be purchased from Elbit.
As for the acquisition of the remaining 1,180 guns, the Government may opt for the indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS), being developed by DRDO in partnership with Tata Power SED and Bharat Forge.
It should be noted that there is a constant tension between the Indian army that mostly wants imported products and the DRDO which is interested in local development. This tension was also relevant in other deals such as the spike missile and fighter aircraft.
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Looks like a decent platform.
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Deadly beast , the 3 round burst could make a single battery burst fire feel like a whole regiments artillery fire ,
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Israel is supplying arms to India, to be used against PAK, How can Israel expect PAK to remain friendly?
fu*k elbit
France investment firm AXA IM divests from Israel arms manufacturer
21 April 2019
A French investment firm has partially divested from Elbit Systems following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and a number of international NGOs.
AXA IM – a branch of the French multinational firm specialising in financial services – has agreed to divest from Elbit Systems, an arms manufacturer which has supplied the Israeli army with weapons to be used against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip.
The move came after a several-year-long campaign by two NGOs, “SumOfUs” and “Stop Assistance to Israeli Apartheid”, which called on the financial giant to reassess its investments and complicity in the Israeli occupation.
In April 2018, SumOfUs – an international NGO that seeks to counter the power of big businesses – launched an international petition to support Stop Assistance to Israeli Apartheid’s campaign. The petition garnered more than 140,000 signatures, causing AXA IM to “quietly reduce” its investments in Elbit Systems and Israeli banks this year.
BDS France explains that AXA Investment Managers, “sold all its shares in the arms manufacturer [Elbit] on December 31, 2018 and told [BDS France] last week ‘we do not invest in cluster munition producers’.”
BDS France continues: “However, AXA remains linked to Elbit Systems through its subsidiary Alliance Bernstein (AB). Last month, we learned that AXA no longer controls AB – [going] from a 65.6% to 31.7% stake in the company.” BDS stressed however that the stake reduction “absolutely does not absolve [AXA] of its complicity in the investments maintained by AB in the arms manufacturer and in five Israeli banks”.
The NGOs, therefore, welcomed the decision but called on AXA to go further and divest completely from all organisations complicit in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Leyla Larbi, a campaigner for SumOfUs, said of the move: “We welcome this decision from the AXA Group [but] we see it as an insufficient first step towards ending AXA’s complicity, both direct and indirect, in serious violations of international law and human rights.” She added: “We expect AXA to pursue this logic of divestment completely in order to fully comply with international legislation.”
AXA’s decision to divest follows in the footsteps of other international corporations, including banking giant HSBC which in December also divested from Elbit Systems. After a long-term campaign which saw over 24,000 people email the bank to express their concern over its investments in Elbit and 40 HSBC branches across the UK picketed monthly, HSBC announced that it would cease its links with the controversial arms manufacturer.
Other firms which have divested from organisations with links to Israel’s occupation include Danish pension fund Sampension, car rental company Europcar and security company G4S.
fu*k elbit
France investment firm AXA IM divests from Israel arms manufacturer
21 April 2019
A French investment firm has partially divested from Elbit Systems following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and a number of international NGOs.
AXA IM – a branch of the French multinational firm specialising in financial services – has agreed to divest from Elbit Systems, an arms manufacturer which has supplied the Israeli army with weapons to be used against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip.
The move came after a several-year-long campaign by two NGOs, “SumOfUs” and “Stop Assistance to Israeli Apartheid”, which called on the financial giant to reassess its investments and complicity in the Israeli occupation.
In April 2018, SumOfUs – an international NGO that seeks to counter the power of big businesses – launched an international petition to support Stop Assistance to Israeli Apartheid’s campaign. The petition garnered more than 140,000 signatures, causing AXA IM to “quietly reduce” its investments in Elbit Systems and Israeli banks this year.
BDS France explains that AXA Investment Managers, “sold all its shares in the arms manufacturer [Elbit] on December 31, 2018 and told [BDS France] last week ‘we do not invest in cluster munition producers’.”
BDS France continues: “However, AXA remains linked to Elbit Systems through its subsidiary Alliance Bernstein (AB). Last month, we learned that AXA no longer controls AB – [going] from a 65.6% to 31.7% stake in the company.” BDS stressed however that the stake reduction “absolutely does not absolve [AXA] of its complicity in the investments maintained by AB in the arms manufacturer and in five Israeli banks”.
The NGOs, therefore, welcomed the decision but called on AXA to go further and divest completely from all organisations complicit in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Leyla Larbi, a campaigner for SumOfUs, said of the move: “We welcome this decision from the AXA Group [but] we see it as an insufficient first step towards ending AXA’s complicity, both direct and indirect, in serious violations of international law and human rights.” She added: “We expect AXA to pursue this logic of divestment completely in order to fully comply with international legislation.”
AXA’s decision to divest follows in the footsteps of other international corporations, including banking giant HSBC which in December also divested from Elbit Systems. After a long-term campaign which saw over 24,000 people email the bank to express their concern over its investments in Elbit and 40 HSBC branches across the UK picketed monthly, HSBC announced that it would cease its links with the controversial arms manufacturer.
Other firms which have divested from organisations with links to Israel’s occupation include Danish pension fund Sampension, car rental company Europcar and security company G4S.
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highly sophisticated gun technology is developed in House and it is coming from outside as well. We waited fro the guns for decades but situation has taken 180* turn. There is no looking back now. Baba Kalyani's ultra light howitzer is also about to complete. Dhanush and ATAGS's advance versions also start coming in some time from now.
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What about Bharat's own system?
Dhanush Already industed. ATAGS is coming next year.
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It's business.
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you want to sell arms to terrorists and call it business
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Means couple of new system.
1-Dhanush
2-ATAGS
3-M777
4-Baba Kalyani's ultra light howitzer
5-Elbit ATHOS.
Terrorists is a political Term has no real life meaning.
IMI is strict business minded,if you have money they would sell to you also.
Not bad. A French system was also in race. IA is inducting so many Platforms. Its weakness in field artillery is being plugged.
