Kanpur Ordnance Factory had developed 155 MM field gun

[joekrish]

If I'm right the deal that we did had com along with the blue print and we guys were hatching eggs with it for so long.

 

[IND151]

so do they want to develop new version of it now?

 

[T90TankGuy]

the fact is we got the license of this gun a long time ago in the eighties. but v.p.sings government put a stop to any production saying it was tainted and they did not want to have any thing to do with it .

 

[anathema]

Is this news verified ? No other sources has reported it so far . I just hope our DDM is not confused between a 155 and 105 mm gun.

 

[Bhairava]

BAE won't allow a copy...How can ToT help us when no Bofors gun was produced in India ? But yeah 130mm and its conversion to 155mm have given OFB some idea. Bhim project might also have given them some idea...

India had already purchased the technology of Bofors decades ago and was idly sitting on it. Guess they had just dusted it off the shelf and making some progress on it.

So I guess this is just a modified form of license producing.

 

[illusion8]

Bofors proved itself in 99, Till then it was a scam tainted weapon and any further developments prior to that would be linked to political motives, any attempt to manufacture would have taken place after 99, so a decade is not that bad to field our own guns without prior experience.

 

[indian navy]

guys is the news true

any source ??

 

[angeldemon_007]

India had already purchased the technology of Bofors decades ago and was idly sitting on it. Guess they had just dusted it off the shelf and making some progress on it.

They were just blue prints. How will you explain the barrel and fire control systems etc. ? How did OFB managed o make them unless BAE gave it to them which is never gonna happen.
What this means in reality that the OFB has acquired design data packages for two types from two different OEMs: one is for the 155mm/39-cal FH-77B and the other from SOLTAM Systems for the 155mm/45-cal gun barrel associated with the upgraded M-46H. What the OFB has reportedly been tasked to do (in addition to building four FH-77Bs) is integrate the SOLTAM Systems-designed gun barrel with the FH-77B's design.

This then brings us to the final issue, that of intellectual property rights, since neither Bofors AB (now BAE Systems) nor SOLTAM Systems had ever authorised such a hybridisation formula. Also, if the OFB were to begin producing the FH-77B at last, then BAE Systems would have to be roped in to educate and guide the OFB on various production-engineering processes related to 155mm towed field artillery howitzers, simply because such production engineering-related expertise does not presently exist within the OFB.

Also Army's GSQR dictates that 52-cal howitzers, and not 39-cal (Bofors) or 45-cal (Soltam) solutions, be acquired.