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Article: India wants more vendors to supply howitzers, guns
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- The Hindustan Times
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- May 21, 2007
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New Delhi, May 21 -- The Indian defence ministry has issued two requests for proposal (RfP) to overseas vendors for 180 155mm/52 caliber wheeled howitzers and 100 tracked self-propelled (SP) guns respectively as part of a long-delayed attempt at standardizing the army's artillery inventory.
Defence sources said the RfP, or an initial inquiry, for the wheeled howitzers was dispatched four weeks ago to 27 vendors while the one for tracked howitzers was issued last week to 17 manufacturers from Sweden, Singapore, France, Spain, Austria, Finland, Israel and Italy.
The eventual contract is to include transfer of technology to locally build the howitzers.
Under the Field Artillery Rationalisation ...