ATAGS is aiming for ranges of close to 60 km, nearly double that of the first Bofors guns. It has all-electric drive as opposed to hydraulic drive and successfully concluded high-altitude trials at the army’s firing ranges situated at 12,000 feet near the Tibetan plateau. The two gun prototypes, G1 and G2, shot hundreds of shells across the test range to meet consistency and accuracy trials. “This gun is a true reflection of Team India,” says Rahul Chaudhry, CEO, Tata Power SED and chairman, Defence Innovators and Industry Association. “It is indigenous technology and a project in the true spirit of public-private partnership with a young team of the development agencies (ARDE, which is the DRDO’s Armament Research & Development Establishment, Tata Power SED and Bharat Forge) working together on a programme of national importance.”
A thrifty, simple and dangerously effective tank, the T-90 is one logically mean machine in the Indian armed ground forces front-lines. She cuts a low profile and is a marriage of classic soviet simplistic reliability and high tech features. The Indian ground forces hold 1650 of T-90s with a slew array of modernizations over the original platforms with Modular Engine, Gun launched missiles, the reactive armors and hard & soft-kill APS.