HIT would touch the systems that are responsible for the movement of the equipment and barrel, e.g thr Drive train, Engine, different Cylinders, tracks etc.That's really sad, if I am not wrong, we should have ca. now 400 M-109 series, are we shipping them to the US or how are we overhauling our whole Artillery Inventory by foreign company's, everything outside? If we are not overhauling our Artillery inventory in a correct way like you mentioned then it means only half of our equipment is battle ready!@Signalian are we here underestimating our capabilities or is that true?
And what means that here than: "Symbol of Pride"
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Upgradation as some mentioned from A2 to A5 is not done.
Battle worthiness is not an issue, heck we even made old 3.7 Inch, 25 Pdr and old 8 Inch Hows when they had to raise an FCN Artillery Battery for FATA.
The problem is not with upkeep but with lack of innovation, Arty lacks this as compared to other arms.
local Inovations for armour are done at HIT, for Sigs at NRTC for Inf at different places, for Airforce it's at PAC, but for Arty it doesn't exist and we are at mercy of other countries for our needs.
So in short
We have ability of maintaining our inventory, not innovation.
Plan on writing an IRP on the subj.