Dhanush (Howitzer) India First Indigenous Artillery Gun

India's 1st native, long-range artillery gun "Dhanush" has passed its final check at Pokhran, paving the manner for its induction into the military.Dhanush may be a 155mm x 45mm calibre artillery gun and is additionally known as the "desi Bofors".It has a strike vary of thirty eight kilometres and eighty one of its elements square measure indigenously sourced, the official same. the dimensions would go up to ninety per cent by 2019.

The gun has passed tests below severe cold conditions in geographic region and Leh and in hot and wet weather in Balasore, Odisha, Babina in Jhansi and within the desert of Pokhran in Rajasthan.Besides options like electronic gun-laying and observation systems, the native gun's striking vary was eleven klick over the foreign Bofors guns.12 guns would be provided to the military within the current financialwhereas the whole range for the initial part is 114 guns.Manufactured by the Jabalpur-based framework plant (GCF).

The gun has been developed by the Ordnance plant Board (OFB), Kolkata, when inquiring style documents running into over twelve,000 pages.According to defence consultants,The Dhanush project has received support and active cooperation from different ordinance factories and PSUs like SAIL, BEL, and lots of personal sector corporations. Their support has created the project an enormous success.The Army had been urgently trying to find 155mm howitzers for over 3 decades. It had roped in associate degree Israeli company, Soltam, to upgrade the foreign, Russian-made 130mm gun to 155mm at GCF. however the project, when the upgraded guns trial, saw problems with alleged kickbacks. the military wants an enormous range of howitzers of various varieties, and Indian companies, some in partnership with foreign makers, square measure within the race to fulfil the demand.