Field Gun Factory Kanpur, now part of Advanced Weapons & Equipment India Ltd. (AW&EIL), has successfully proof fired 155×52 calibre ordnance today at CPE Itarsi, proving its capabilities to manufacture 52 calibre artillery fire power.
Ordance Factory was making spare barrels and other spare parts of the 155mm 39 calibre Bofors Guns imported from A.B Bofors of Sweden. The “Dhanush” is a 155mm x 45 calibre modern artillery gun system which is a qualitatively and technologically superior weapon system as compared to the 155mm x 39 calibre Bofors Gun.
Not only does it have a longer and metallurgically re-engineered barrel, a new muzzle brake and a larger chamber volume necessitated by the longer barrel, but mechanical and electronic upgrades make it an entirely different weapon on a number of criteria.
AWEIL has got its first export order from a European firm for major sub assemblies of artillery guns worth Rs 6 crore only.
AWEIL made a modest provisional profit of Rs 4.84 crore for 2021-22 overcoming ₹398.5 crore loss calculated over an average of six months during the last three years.
