Well those are Artillery Machines but for different role and areas. This kind of actions makes me think Indian Military leadership is facing some serious crisis.
As far as i can read the situation, the requirement is/was for both wheeled and tracked SPH. They trialed both systems, have selected K-9 for tracked SPH and may roll out a Wheeled one on Tata Chassis using the lessons learned from K-9 and M777 deal. Makes sense.
Off Course than it would make sense but if they don't it than they were confused themselves
The Tracked Howitzer program in India included the Russian Msta and the RoK K9, here the K9 has been chosen.
I do not think they were confused. Both projects were running parallel. It is pretty clear that tracked one have been selected (K-9) and the wheeled one will come at some later stage. It can be a local product of a JV with some other manufacturer. Surely it is not like they were testing wheeled SPH and ended up buying K-9. People are not THAT stupid.
Thank you. That is pretty much same as what we know.
Around 300 guns sir. It is not "so much" considering the long border. Plus some 50-60 of these are M110 that need to be phased out. There were plans of acquiring some 300 guns M109A5 from USA. Around 120-130 examples were delivered in 2010-2011 time frame (and are included in the total 300 guns that we have that i mentioned in the start). Not sure if the rest of those were delivered too. If so then the total number will be around 500 and then that is a decent strength.
No public source information on the progress of the Mounted Gun System tender as of yet, although the trials might have been completed.
What chassis is this based on?A good option for friend states appeared. Turkey's new truck mounted howitzer called Yavuz introduced.
seems tatra
I don't think so several Turkish companies make good trucks and are also in defence production so it could be one of them
turks are just new kids in defense productions they has alote of western exposure that's why they are trying there abilities to manufacture there own needs as well exporting them.
When it comes to Land systems they are way ahead and now in Ship and Submarine production also we only defeat them in Missile program although there new Cruise Missiles and also rockets for MRLS are more advanced than what we use also the Anti Tank Missiles.
we are actually on halt these days thanks to zardari dark era we lost almost entirely on R&D every planed project got cancelled or stalled this puts us years behind.thats why we are resorting to import nowadays not making anything even thunder was musharraf era project
Its definetly not Tatra.
