Introduction:
Artillery has four core missions in the modern battlespace: suppression of enemy fires or counter-battery fires, striking high-value targets, breaking up enemy force concentrations, and providing fire support for manoeuvre warfare. The border tension with India and China is no were close to end and in fact more aggression is being witnessed in the north eastern sector of LAC. Indian Army at present operates, nearly 410 Bofors, 70 M777, 100 k9 Vajra, 180 Sharang 155mm artillery. In total 760 of these guns. Additional 75 M777 and 300 Sharang guns are also in production taking total to 1135 155mm artillery guns. But is this number sufficient, the answer is no considering the two front war scenarios, India needs more of these guns. They are going to be game changing weapon in mountainous warfare.
Dhanush:
We all know that the Dhanush which is desi Bofors gun has been troubled child since its incubation. Since April 2019, when the induction of this gun started, only 12 of them were built which is far below the 18 guns plus two in reserve required to make a full regiment. OFB had an initial order of 114 guns to be executed.
While the Army is satisfied with the guns in terms of fire power and mobility, it has flagged multiple concerns regarding the production quality. Dhanush was being manufactured by the Gun Carriage Factory (CGF) in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur, which comes under the erstwhile state-run OFB.
After integrated firing checks, issues have cropped with regard to the hydraulics, sight and even mounting in some cases. There were 3 to 4 instances of muzzle brake hit where the shell has hit the upper part of the barrel instead of flying off. This incident happened when the gun was fired with the Zone 6 Charge. Charge refers to the quantity of ammunition filled in the artillery shell. The Zone 6 Charge means that the artillery is filled with the maximum charge to achieve the maximum range.
Update:
Now the good news, coming up regarding this gun is related to its Zone 6 Charge firing. Dhanush has successfully completed the firing of artilleries with the Zone 6 Charge without hitting the upper part of the barrel. This was the major hurdle which the gun has crossed, however still undergo few more trials to ensure the safety and the reliability of the gun.
After the corporatization of OFB, the manufacturing of Dhanush has come under Advance Weapons and Equipment of India Limited, headquartered in Kanpur.
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