Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems: The Indian Army submitted a request to the Ministry of Defence in March of this year to purchase 307 Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems (ATAGS) for use on Pakistani and Chinese borders.
Dr. Samir V. Kamat, the head of the research wing, told ANI that the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) is probably going to place an order for 307 Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems (ATAGS) before the conclusion of the current fiscal year.
These armaments will be stationed along the frontiers between India and Pakistan and China.
The chairman stated that based on his estimations, the order should be made during this fiscal year, adding that ATAGS has already finished all of the trials.
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In collaboration with two business partners, Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. and Bharat Forge Ltd., DRDO developed a howitzer cannon measuring 155 mm by 52 mm.
“DRDO has consistently assisted business. We collaborated with MSMEs and smaller industries during our development phase, and since we began this DcPP idea seven or eight years ago, we have even worked with them as system integrators, starting with the design and development phase. The odds of being chosen as a DcPP are comparable for the public and private sectors, according to Dr. Samir V. Kamat.
The Army placed a large number of transportable M-777 ultra-light howitzers in 2023 in hilly areas of Arunachal Pradesh near the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
After howitzers were stationed in a number of vulnerable sites in the Ladakh sector during the ongoing border stalemate with China, the Army increased its firepower in Arunachal Pradesh’s advanced positions.
Following the conflict in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, which led to a significant increase in tensions between the Indian and Chinese forces, India has been stepping up its total military capability in all strategically important regions along the roughly 3,500-km-long LAC.
