Defexpo 2014: Land, Naval & Internal Homeland Security Systems Exhibit

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BMP-2's Turret along with its MG's & Grenade rounds

 

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COLT Pavilion...being the last day...everybody was busy packing...

Whatever was left at MBDA stall...Again everybody busy packing....I kept standing there for like 20 minutes for some gentleman to get free but my bad luck...

 

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@sancho , @Abingdonboy , @Gessler , @sandy_3126 Can any of you explain what this gadget/product is all about..What all I can gather is that it is a Towed Array Sonar manufactured by Atlas Electronik . I tried asking from a gentleman there but he rudely said "We dont have time Bbye".

 

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@sancho , @Abingdonboy , @Gessler , @sandy_3126 Can any of you explain what this gadget/product is all about..What all I can gather is that it is a Towed Array Sonar manufactured by Atlas Electronik . I tried asking from a gentleman there but he rudely said "We dont have time Bbye".

A towed array sonar is a sonar array that is towed behind a submarine (STSA; Submarine Towed Sonar Array) or surface ship such as a (SURTASS). It is basically a long cable, up to 6 km (3.7 mi), with an array of hydrophones that is trailed behind the ship when deployed—that gets the sensitive sensors away from own-ships-noise sources greatly improving Signal-to-noise ratio, and hence effectiveness and so detection and tracking performance versus faint contacts, such as a quiet, low noise-emitting submarine threat, or seismic signals

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Various Vehicles at RosoboronExport's Pavilion.....Chicks were so amazing that I forgot to ask anything at this stall & my GF did not let me take their pic

 

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On last day only security was their no one present to brief about DRDO products.

Person that was there don't even know difference between INSAS & F-INSAS.

Did u get any info on LCH ?

 

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Club-K missile disguised in Containers...Rail Road & ships...

A towed array sonar is a sonar array that is towed behind a submarine (STSA; Submarine Towed Sonar Array) or surface ship such as a (SURTASS). It is basically a long cable, up to 6 km (3.7 mi), with an array of hydrophones that is trailed behind the ship when deployed—that gets the sensitive sensors away from own-ships-noise sources greatly improving Signal-to-noise ratio, and hence effectiveness and so detection and tracking performance versus faint contacts, such as a quiet, low noise-emitting submarine threat, or seismic signals

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Thanks for the info mate... Do you have any information about any such Sonar used by IN or which Sonar does the IN use?

 

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Thanks for the info mate... Do you have any information about any such Sonar used by IN or which Sonar does the IN use?

INdian Navy is going for this one

Indian Navy planning to equip warships with European sonar systems

 

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Thanks for the info mate... Do you have any information about any such Sonar used by IN or which Sonar does the IN use?

Did u get any info on LCH ?

 

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Did u get any info on LCH ?

Sorry bro..Nothing reg LCH...They were packing up...and the ppl standing on the stall didnot knew what LCH is...

 

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Sorry bro..Nothing reg LCH...They were packing up...and the ppl standing on the stall didnot knew what LCH is...

Sad !! was luking forward on status of LHC ! neway thanks !!

 

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No prob about the F INSAS rifle, man. We've plenty on it, but you're now posting nitbits that havent been posted.

 

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Max range 35km thanks to modernisation by the private industries...... read the article..

I did read the article there is no 35 anywhere, so let me highlight it for you one more time

GM, Gun carriage factory (GCF), S P Yadav, told the newspaper that the performance of both the prototype guns had been as expected; they had successfully hit targets 38-40 kilometers away.

The trials were witnessed by Lt Gen Anjan Mukherji, DG Artillery as well as experts from DRDO.

The PXE range is equipped for accurate ballistic measurements and DRDO has compiled the data from the trials.

Yadav is confident that the GCF developed Bofors 155 mm/ 45 caliber gun would bag the MOD project worth Rs 6,000 crore for supply of guns to the Indian Army.

GCF carried out initial internal trials of the guns in May in Pokharan, which proved to be satisfactory.

Next the guns were tested at Central Proof Establishment (CPE) at Itarsi on November 30, December 5 and 6.

At CPE, the firing was confined to the arrester butt on zero degree elevation.

At the subsequent field trials at Balasore the gun could go up to the gun's maximum elevation of 70 degrees at every designed angle, Yadav said.

After the CPE firing the guns were subjected to a series of tests to ensure their structural integrity hadn't been compromised. It was determined that all components and assemblies had borne the firing firing stress without any damage.

On their return to GCF from Balasore, the guns would once again be subjected to the tests before being handed over to the Indian Army.

 

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I did read the article there is no 35 anywhere, so let me highlight it for you one more time

New Delhi, Feb. 6: The son of a gun is named Dhanush. Defence minister A.K. Antony and his cohorts in the armed forces are looking at it longingly.

It burst last July in the Rajasthan desert while firing. Dhanush is a derivative of —you guessed it — the Bofors.

It is here at Defexpo 2014, the show billed as a window to the world’s largest arms bazaar.

Right here in the heart of Pragati Maidan, the Dhanush in olive green, its overlong barrel pointing skywards, is firing a slogan that Antony repeats like a mantra: be Indian, buy Indian. This, then, is the story of how a gun was “indigenised”.

Later this month, the gun — the one here at this exhibition — is to be transported to Sikkim. The winter trials will be held there. It will be checked for accuracy, range and rate of fire; for its traverse and elevation capabilities; for its shoot-and-scoot ability.

Sounds familiar? Yes, these were the words used to describe and justify the purchase of 410 Bofors FH77B02 guns in 1987. Now, as it was then, the Indian army is bereft of big guns.

Its “field artillery rationalisation programme” has gone haywire. For nearly three decades the army has not inducted a single big gun. The Bofors bought in 1987 are being cannibalised to keep the artillery going. The army says it cannot wage war without these cannons or howitzers.

The army has projected a need for five types of howitzers: towed, self-propelled, tracked, mounted and light. In all, it needs some 18,000 pieces of artillery guns to be comfortable with its war-waging potential.

Realising the urgency, Antony went to the Gun Carriage Factory (GCF) in Jabalpore, where the Indian gun is being made, in September.

“There was pressure on us to have some kind of opening ceremony for an indigenous programme though we were yet to be prepared,” says an Ordnance Development Centre officer on Antony’s visit. “So we organised this ceremony to inaugurate the 155mm bay.”

Antony cut the ribbon. The “155mm” bay in Jabalpore ordnance factory is the assembly line for the Dhanush. So, was the gun already made?

“No,” says the official. But he explains that, at the bay, they showed the components of the gun: the trailer, the carriage, the assembly, the barrel and the breech, the muzzle brake, the cradle and the saddle, the trunnions.

“We just took apart a Bofors for the minister,” the official explained, “and laid it out.”
He smirked: “He (Antony) wouldn’t know the difference between a 39 calibre and a 45 calibre.”

The original Bofors — the Dhanush ka baap, if you will — is a 155mm/39cal gun. The Dhanush is a 155mm/45cal.

The increased calibre means a longer barrel length for a longer range. The original Bofors had a maximum effective range of 27km in the plains. The Dhanush’s shell is claimed to top 35km.

The Dhanush is an improved version of the Bofors, says Tushar Tripathi, director of weapons systems at the Calcutta-headquartered Ordnance Factory Board.

The Jabalpore factory has so far manufactured six Dhanush guns. The fourth one burst during an internal trial in the Rajasthan desert last year.

Ahtesham Akhtar from GCF Jabalpore says the gun had already fired 250 rounds; so the barrel overheated. The sixth gun — on show here — is a further development.

It is ironic that India began organised manufacturing of guns more than 100 years ago. The Ichapore Rifle Factory near Calcutta was producing firearms even before WWI.

Yet, India’s armed forces are short of guns and its defence industrial complex is struggling to make them. It is an axiom of truth that whatever is aplenty at the Defexpo is in serious short supply.

The latest edition of the expo of the largest arms bazaar is seeing the showcasing of several big guns: by the Tatas, who have driven a Denel-derived, truck-mounted gun all the way from Bangalore; by Larsen and Toubro, which is exhibiting a version of the French-origin Caesar/Nexter; and, of course, by BAE Systems — to which Bofors AB now belongs — which has hauled its ultra-light M777 over here yet again.

Pragati Maidan is a bayou in which to have fun with a gun.

 

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“No,” says the official. But he explains that, at the bay, they showed the components of the gun: the trailer, the carriage, the assembly, the barrel and the breech, the muzzle brake, the cradle and the saddle, the trunnions.

“We just took apart a Bofors for the minister,” the official explained, “and laid it out.”
He smirked: “He (Antony) wouldn’t know the difference between a 39 calibre and a 45 calibre.”

The original Bofors — the Dhanush ka baap, if you will — is a 155mm/39cal gun. The Dhanush is a 155mm/45cal.

The increased calibre means a longer barrel length for a longer range. The original Bofors had a maximum effective range of 27km in the plains. The Dhanush’s shell is claimed to top 35km.

I know its just a habit you cannot shirk but lets just try to.

They showed a different gun for the expo, so what?

See I'd rather believe a news with more concrete sources than just "an official".

SO again let me explain to you about real sources.


GM, Gun carriage factory (GCF), S P Yadav, told the newspaper that the performance of both the prototype guns had been as expected; they had successfully hit targets 38-40 kilometers away.

The trials were witnessed by Lt Gen Anjan Mukherji, DG Artillery as well as experts from DRDO.

The PXE range is equipped for accurate ballistic measurements and DRDO has compiled the data from the trials.

Yadav is confident that the GCF developed Bofors 155 mm/ 45 caliber gun would bag the MOD project worth Rs 6,000 crore for supply of guns to the Indian Army.

GCF carried out initial internal trials of the guns in May in Pokharan, which proved to be satisfactory.

Next the guns were tested at Central Proof Establishment (CPE) at Itarsi on November 30, December 5 and 6.

At CPE, the firing was confined to the arrester butt on zero degree elevation.

At the subsequent field trials at Balasore the gun could go up to the gun's maximum elevation of 70 degrees at every designed angle, Yadav said.

After the CPE firing the guns were subjected to a series of tests to ensure their structural integrity hadn't been compromised. It was determined that all components and assemblies had borne the firing firing stress without any damage.

On their return to GCF from Balasore, the guns would once again be subjected to the tests before being handed over to the Indian Army.