your ok unless it goes under your ......err lungi.
Do we have money for all this? whats the idea, to bankrupt pakistanis or bankrupt ourselves? No doubt we should spend for defence but putting the entire money in the pot on it is too much.
At 5 Mil a gun its expensive
645 will cost 3.2 Billion USD or around Rs 20000 crores
It's expensive but manageable since it will be spread over 4-5 years
Also US Army barely operates 950 of these Guns
645 Guns will make India the second biggest operator of this Gun.
Since most of our future conflicts will be fought in the Himalayas, these Guns will provide us the edge and versatility which our friends in Beijing and Pindi won't be able to match
Also I expect an order for at least 20 more chinooks directly for the army to support deployment of these Guns and operationalization of the Mountain Strike corps
Dhanush in production.It will replace Bofors guns.
TATA and other companies are participating in a mounted gun system, not a part of ultra light howitzer procurments.
Bofors are not going anywhere, and neither is M46
Dhanush as things stand will replace 105mm Field Guns which barely have 15 km range
Currently Bofors are deployed in J&K while M46 in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim
Once we get M777
Bofors will be moved to Punjab and M46 to Meghalaya, Assam and West Bengal