BAE Sys & ST Kinetics short listed for India155 mm howitzers

lionnoisy SG

STK products,as suggested by few learned forumers here,

are next to scrap metal.

How come ONLY STK Pegasus 155 mm/39 cal lightweight howitzer

is short listed with BAE Systems's M777 155 mm/39 cal towed howitzer

to bid for India 140 ultra-light 155 mm/39 cal howitzers contract?

No need to say,there are many co want to get this contract.

http://www.india-defence.com/reports-3230

http://www.india-defence.com/reports-3874

Ya.They would say because STK is poor quality,therefore it is cheap!!

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/land/jdw/jdw080313_1_n.shtml

By Rahul Bedi

13 March 2008

I think contract worths about US $ 1 billion.

lionnoisy SG

http://www.indiaprwire.com/businessnews/20080211/27335.htm

''New Delhi, Delhi, India, 2008-02-11 18:45:03

The Indian Army has floated a second global tender for 155mm self-propelled wheeled artillery guns, even as it is readying a third tender for the towed variety of the gun, an official said Monday.

This follows a tender floated last month for ultra-light howitzers, with the total deal for 400 guns expected to be in the region of $2 billion. Of these, 140 guns will be of the ultra-light category, 185 of the wheeled version and the balance 175 of the towed version.

'Yes, I can confirm that the request for proposal (RFP) has gone out for the wheeled gun,' a defence ministry said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

While the tender for the ultra-light guns is believed to have been issued to Britain's BAE Systems and Singapore Technologies, that for the wheeled version is understand to have gone out to at least five companies, including BAE Systems and Germany's Rheinmetall, and two Israeli companies.

The army desperately needs the additional howitzers to ramp up depleting stocks of a similar number of guns it had bought from Swedish manufacturer Bofors in the mid-1980s.''end of quote

spartan_6 SG

WAT LIAO, How many type of ultra light 155 r they currently in service?

Only 2

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

LOL... for some reason lionnoisy thinks that's something to shout about.

It's like saying "yay, I came in second or first in a class of only two people."

touchstone_2000 SG

This is good news. I just hope that we can make some money from all this. Remember the Bofors scandal? 20 years later it is still in the Indian legal system.

SGTrex, in the ULWH category, there are only 2 players, more importanly only 1 non US supplier.

Arapahoe SG

was thinking that india must be playing catch up on borders with china and pakistan.

Sepecat SG

How many leading Personal Computer OS are there in the world ? I believe the answer is also 2.

lionnoisy SG

self-propelled for a short distance

Pegasus is capable self-propelled for a short distance at 12 km/h max.

I am not sure if M 777 can be self-propelled for short distance.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/lw155.htm

http://www.sfu.ca/casr/bg-artillery-155mm-M777.htm

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

If you need to self-propel your gun at 12kph then you are in some serious trouble.

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Wow Lionnoisy indulges in his useless trumpeting, I wonder how much by way of bribes does ST Engg have to pay the Indian officials? :D

tragickingdom SG

You can self-propel at 12kph if you are doing standard shoot-and-scoot.

Bionic Animals SG

Bribe in kind can or not? Cattle and toddy (alcoholic drink from fermented coconut water).

spartan_6 SG

Being SP we r in a very attractive position cos u can scoot after firing 2 a safe location 2 wait for e heli so e heli dun run e risk of being destroy along with e gun as it wait for pick-up & enemy return arty arrives tat VERY VERY costy