Thugner
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@singhshwetabh71 I think that TIFCS is TIFCS-418 (418 being the total units I guess) aka ESSA-72 in a joint venture with Beltech/TML Engg. Belarus.
Elbit TIFCS (internally called TIFCS-1000 for the supposed similar aforementioned reasons) should be mostly managed by ADTL.
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Interesting we have 105mm LFG on order in the big 2026
Also TIFCS form India Optel for T72s, wonder is it the same as elbit
Adithya Krishna Menon@AdithyaKM_
SCOD Major Projects being executed by new DPSUs for Armed Forces OFB
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@thugner101 NVS-03 will be launched by September is what I'm hearing lets see:/
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Absolutely bizarre how our countrymen are so oblivious and careless of the fact that India just lost it's strategic satellite network for navigation and guidance with one of the last 4 functioning (out of the original 8) satellites going defunct (IRNSS-1F on March 10th).
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Probably yapping like an ape rn but imo it is high time that ASL/RCI/DSP/DRDL/DEAL/DLRL/HEMRL/IRDE should set up a special joint division to work on dedicated military launch vehicles for space payload delivery (expand on Project VEDA).
ISRO's been given way too much laxity.
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If you are an engineering student you would have used most of them in your first year itself
Yem🌹@big_yemm
Can we admit that these buttons are useless on calculators ?
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@highmach_yara That Dhanush one was OFB's own thing with BEML. Afaik, they are making a new MGS (using Dhanush 52) with L&T. And yea.. it's mad hilarious atp.
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@thugner101 I'm pretty sure that I've missed some Sharma Welding Works type firm that no one has ever heard of doing a JV with some Emirati or Belarusian firm that no one has ever heard of for 155mm MGS
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@highmach_yara @Rethik_D Ah that, yea.. I thought you meant the gun.
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@thugner101 @Rethik_D That comes as a whole gun assembly
All the BFL guns that "they claim to be IDDM" are basically GC45 derived otherwise all other comes from various sources like ATAGS is from Haubitus FH-77B's DNA, all the soft recoil ones are Mandus Group's
This whole part is Mandus's
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@highmach_yara @Rethik_D Ehhh.. wasn't that mandus jv just for recoil development? Imo, all the BFL guns other than ATAGS are heavily based on GC 45 and GHN 45 stuff which they absorbed from Austrian Noricum (Voest Alpine) when they purchased their line and all the machinery.
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@thugner101 @Rethik_D Well in that case BFL has an ace up its sleeves that can completely upset the competition for other players
A Mandus Group 155mm on a 4x4
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@highmach_yara @Rethik_D Well yea, it is 6x6.. the VRDE/BFL MGS is 8x8.
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@thugner101 @Rethik_D I think they've tried to remove everything possible in a bid to meet the weight requirements
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@wartrophy_414 Yea, I think so. Didn't hear anything about a second MGS from DG (ACE).
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@highmach_yara @Rethik_D Not sure what I am seeing here tho.. looks pretty barebones and unfinished. But that crane is still the old one which used to pick up 4 shells at once. Maybe they didn't change the loading at all. But I don't see the revolver either, just that stack, idk what it is.
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@highmach_yara @Rethik_D Yea it always made more sense to go for the ATAGS ordnance because they are literally the second DcPP with all the IP. But it seems to me that they have done this one on their own without DRDO help.
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@shiv_cybersurg Yea, shame they stopped publishing those in the public domain. Now we only hear hints from random media hitjob articles who have access to the recent ones.
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@thugner101 CAG reports are always useful for social media rants because the reports themselves have rants
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Ohhh.. I did not know this thing had quite a history.
Thugner@thugner101
Combustible modular charges in place of the normal metallic cartridge ones for 105 mm IFG/LFG and 130 mm M-46 (don't ask why). Using a fixed stub case for obturation (since wedge breech blocks) which also seems to be able to fit smaller "zones".
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