{"id":17313,"date":"2023-09-18T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17313"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:05:46","slug":"dhanush-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-09-2023\/dhanush-guns","title":{"rendered":"Dhanush Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Defence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Indian Army, which has ordered 114 Dhanush artillery guns, will receive all the guns by 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dhanush is the<strong> indigenously upgraded gun<\/strong> of the Swedish Bofors gun procured in the <strong>1980s.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a <strong>155 mm, 45-calibre towed artillery gun<\/strong> with a range of <strong>36 km<\/strong> and has demonstrated a range of 38 km with specialized ammunition.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is an upgrade of the existing<strong> 155m, 39 calibre Bofors FH 77 gun<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is compatible with all <strong>North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) <\/strong>155 mm ammunition systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited,<\/strong> carved after corporatisation of the <strong>Ordnance Factory Board<\/strong>, is now manufacturing the Dhanush guns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/8TXe_JpmELmuITrbH4SKXt_FUgaXkvjPWks0nKYHkvmAulCksBe0_gY-h3hTmyZzv0fET3Xxg42A5VgbZEGlwGhuOBO_1-JgCQgbY7AUwuXulxZANhPmaBf2_qM3c-TSi8EKGkFnkDotew_DEJWfcHo\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:599px;height:335px\" width=\"599\" height=\"335\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Features<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The gun is fitted with an inertial navigation system with global positioning system- (GPS) based gun recording and auto-lying, an enhanced tactical computer for onboard ballistic computations and an onboard muzzle velocity recording.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It also has an automated gun sighting system equipped with camera, thermal imaging and laser range finder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/army-likely-to-complete-inducting-114-dhanush-guns-by-2026\/article67317964.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS3\/Defence News About Features Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17314,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313\/revisions\/17314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}