Gun Carriage Factory hands over 3 ‘Dhanush’ guns to Army

Three indigenously-developed 155 mm ’Dhanush’ artillery guns have been handed over to the Indian Army for user’s trial by the Jabalpur-based Gun Carriage Factory (GCF).

 The gun Dhanush

• The gun, a towed howitzer with a strike range of 38 km. 
• It  has been developed by Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), Kolkata.
• The Army had been looking for a total of 114 Dhanush guns from GCF to augment its firepower, he further said.
• Costing around Rs. 14 crore a piece, Dhanush, (aka ‘Desi Bofors’) is comparable to most current generation weapon systems which are in use by different countries.
• Along with electronic gun-laying and sighting systems and other features, the indigenous gun has an enhanced 11-km range as against the 27-km range of the imported Bofors.