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Please check out http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/landwarfareintl/indian-guidance-tech-advances-tata-honeywell/ LAND WARFARE 21st October 2014 - 9:52 by  Neelam Mathews  in Delhi  A recent licensing agreement between Tata Power’s Strategic Engineering Division and Honeywell Aerospace will offer India the capability to produce inertial navigation systems. Signed on  29 September , it means that the construction of the Tactical Advance Land Inertial Navigator (TALIN) is set to benefit India’s indigenous defence programmes by providing guidance and situational awareness for vehicles and altitude of position information for precision artillery without the need for GPS satellite guidance. This is particularly important in the jungle, mountainous and desert regions of India where satellite signals are inconsistent. Arijit Ghosh, Honeywell’s president of India operations, told  Shephard : ‘Part of the plan is an immediate order for TALIN2000...

Major Programs Update Defense Technology International Feb 01 , 2010 , p. 30 Neelam Mathews Printed headline: India Readies Howitzer Trials As India plans to hold trials for towed howitzers in late February, the push for towed and ultra-light guns is drawing interest from two contenders, Singapore Technologies (ST) Kinetics and BAE Systems. BAE Systems is offering its FH77B05 howitzer to India. Credit: BAE SYSTEMS India wants to procure 400 towed 155-mm. howitzers and 144 ultra-light howitzers. The military is reportedly trying to procure BAE’s M777 ultra-light howitzer through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program, an effort hastened, perhaps, by Pakistan’s acquisition last year of 67 M109 A5 Paladin self-propelled artillery guns from BAE through the U.S. Foreign Military Financing program. Immediate attention is being given to the towed howitzers, which, due to India’s history of re-bids, are undergoing trials for the fifth time. “ST Kinetics’ entry, the iFH2000, a 155-mm./52-calib...

Lightweight Howitzers Through U.S. Foreign Military Sales NEW DELHI — The Indian government has requested to purchase 145 M777 155mm Lightweight Towed Howitzers through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The request includes warranty, spare parts, support and test equipment, documentation, maintenance, personnel training and training equipment, technical assistance from U.S. government and contractor representatives, and logistics support services. The estimated cost is $647 million. BAE Systems, whose U.S. Land Systems division manufactures the M777, said it welcomes the news of the U.S. Congressional notification of a potential FMS purchase of the M777 ultra light weight howitzer by the Government of India. “The M777 is, by some considerable margin, the lightest 155mm howitzer in the world, and the only system proven in battle,” the company said. Significant work share would be completed in India by the Mahindra and BAE Systems joint venture company. The intention is that the j...

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report January 20, 2009 NEW DELHI – ST Kinetics, the Land Systems arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering, is participating in numerous programs in India and says it is looking at itself as a capability-based company able to integrate all dimensions of lifecycle support. Rated by Moodys as AAA, it has bid for six Indian defense contracts, including a Request for Proposals (RFP) for 34,377 Compact Personal Weapons. Other tenders include 400 155mm towed howitzers, the trials for which are to be held at the end of February in Kargil, a district of Ladakh in Kashmir that lies near the Line of Control facing Pakistan-administered Kashmir and was the center of conflict in May 1999. The war was fought in high altitudes in mountainous terrain, posing severe logistical problems for both India and Pakistan. The Spider Light Strike Vehicle under technical evaluation is ready for shipment, says Patrick Choy, chief marketing officer for ST Kinetics. Its collapsible r...

ST Kinetics Howitzers Approved For Indian Trials Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, Dec 23, 2009 NEW DELHI — India’s defense ministry has approved Singapore Technologies (ST) Kinetics to go ahead with the trials for 39 155mm caliber ultra-light howitzers that were postponed from June. The delay in trials followed ST Kinetics being implicated in the Central Bureau of Investigation’s probe of the ministry’s former Ordnance Factory Board chairman. The investigation resulted in a temporary ban on procurements from ST and six other companies (Aerospace DAILY, June 23, 29). The government now has said that while the investigations will carry on, tests of the Howitzers should move ahead. In June, India received a consignment of ST 155s to participate in the trials. The request for proposals (RFP) for 155mm ultra-light Howitzers was first issued by the defense ministry in January 2008 with an original deadline of April 7, 2008.The submission deadline was extended twice and the final d...