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The bright idea of concentrating artillery capability (tubed artillery capability) in the 155 mm howitzer/medium artillery was never appealing. There are so many situations where this kind of 105 mm gun, towed, self propelled on wheels, self propelled on tracks, easy to transport by chopper, easy to load onto any kind of aerial logistics support aircraft (meaning, aircraft smaller than the C 130 can be used) is ideal, the amount of ammunition that can be transferred in a particular load compared to the corresponding number of rounds for the 155 mm guns being one.
That read good about the 105 mm guns (every gun is NOT a howitzer), but I am queasy about what's going on about ATAGS. There has been a smooth replacement of that by TAGS, to enable them to buy Israeli, and because ATAGS is 15 MT more than TAGS (or so they say).
Once it is truck-mounted, doesn't that count as self-propelled?There cannot be a more comprehensive replacement for the old IFGs than the Garuda 105.
It would be neat going from towed to self-propelled as well, not to mention it's a compact 4x4 truck so highly mobile even along the LAC.
Once it is truck-mounted, doesn't that count as self-propelled?
Not yet.We have truck-mounted IFGs?
Not yet.
It is proposed that we will buy and deploy those truck-mounted 105 mm guns designed by Kalyani, 200 of them. I am referring to that.