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Are you sure that Tiger hill was bombard with 300 Bofors Guns .What are you Talking about ? I hop you are not drunk. Get your facts right first. 300 Guns for Tiger HILL, you are funny. MLRS are you kidding me that's not gonna make a difference, how would you lift MLRS in mountains man , we lost the 62 war because they were not able to mobilize troops and Ammunition on time. That is the reason we need M 777.
He is at least partially correct; the final assault on Tiger Hill was supported by over 400 guns and heavy mortars, believed to be the biggest concentration of artillery fire since WWII.The Bofors gunners, there were 120 Bofors, found that in the rarefied atmosphere of Kargil it could lob shells upto 39 km instead of the usual 27 km, and to improve accuracy and avoid artillery radar, resorted to firing through open sights. Backing up that murderous fire, and leading the fire by volume were the M46 guns,a few individual gun positions reporting firing upwards of 500 shells in just 24 hours. Finally came the fearsome 160mm heavy mortars, pound for pound the most devastating of the deployed artillery systems.
I've not been able to confirm if 105mm L37 IFG/LFG were deployed for TIger Hill operation. Maybe someone else will be kind enough to educate me.