Artillery is known as the "god of war", in recent times, from the look at the news network to the global network, constantly published videos from India, showing India with thousands of kilometers of actual control line with the largest neighboring countries equipped with military artillery, please note that it is 155, 130 mm caliber heavy artillery, showing that they still based on the "principle of strength" to seek to get advantage in the middle of the line of actual control in the "control" of the line of actual control.
Indian artillery
According to the Indian army, "an army without artillery is a bunch of lambs", to some extent, the contest of military operations in mountainous areas is largely determined by the strength of artillery. In this regard, the Indian army seems to have "excessive self-confidence". From the photogenic rate, the 105, 130 and 155 mm guns have almost become the standard for Indian artillery.
105 mm MK.I and MK.II light howitzers
The 105 mm MK.I and MK.II light howitzers are one of the few indigenous guns that the Indian army is willing to accept, with a maximum range of less than 17 kilometers, a maximum rate of fire of 6 rounds / min, can be parachuted by An-12, An-32 transport aircraft or a Mi-26 helicopter, very suitable for mountain, jungle and desert operations, is the benchmark suppression weapon of the Indian Mountain Infantry Division, and has been aided by Burma, Bhutan and Nepal.
Soviet-aided M46 cannon
130 mm caliber only a cannon, that is, the Soviet aid M46 type, the range is claimed to be 27 kilometers, but due to long-term wear and tear, it has been unable to compete with the 59-1 type cannon gradually retired by neighboring countries, as for the 155 gun, although the Indian army has repeatedly rumored that the M777 ultra-light towed gun and the King Kong self-propelled gun introduced from the United States and South Korea have been put into the front line, but rarely appear in the camera, and from the information released by social media, it is still dominated by the FH77B self-propelled towed howitzer imported from Sweden nearly 40 years ago When using NATO No. 6 charge, the range is 21.7 kilometers, and when using the Swedish version of the "Super Medicine Pack", it reaches 24 kilometers.
FH77B self-propelled - towed howitzer imported from Sweden
It should be pointed out that after more than 30 years of use, the Indian army found that FH77B used to introduce high-power medicine packs and projectiles to open up the engagement distance with the enemy, but when the range reached 30 kilometers, the life of the body tube (wear and fatigue) was reduced and the reliability, utilization and maintenance problems caused by the use of high-energy propellants were more prominent, so far due to combat and training losses, as of 2018, the number of FH77Bs available to the whole army has dropped to about 350 doors. In particular, the protection problems of exposed hydraulic lines and APU control devices have not been solved.
Indian procurement of U.S.-made CH-47 helicopters and M777 ultralight guns
According to the Indian Army regulations, field artillery tasks include: close support (i.e., suppression) directly affecting the targets of the already frontal brigades (infantry brigades, mountain infantry brigades and armored brigades) that are the combat tasks of the detachments; general support is to provide supplementary artillery firepower for composite units (brigades, divisions, armies); and the purpose of anti-artillery warfare is to collect and provide information on enemy artillery and to suppress and destroy enemy artillery in accordance with the principles prescribed by the commander of the composite force. The firepower effect of the Indian army on the field artillery is: killing and wounding the enemy; destroying the enemy's equipment and fortifications; suppressing the enemy, preventing him from effectively using weapons and restricting his mobility; and thwarting the enemy's morale and making him lose his will to resist.
Judging from the situation of the line of actual control, the Indian artillery basically only prepares for "defensive combat" and divides the firepower into two categories: "defensive firepower" and "counter-impact cover firepower". Defensive firepower is used to sabotage the enemy's offensive preparations and to divide the enemy's offensive formation, and it can be divided into: defensive firepower in depth is used to sabotage the enemy's offensive preparations and counter-impact preparations, to kill and injure the enemy's reserves, and to strike at the enemy's command post, the assembly area, and the road leading to the starting position of the attack; the close defensive firepower is used in front of the front of the front support point, aimed at dividing the enemy's offensive echelon from the offensive starting position and the offensive starting line; emergency defensive firepower generally uses the front support point close to the already square, and the purpose is also to divide the attacking enemy. The Indians stipulated that in order to control the approach road most likely to be used by the enemy, the infantry battalion commander had the right to decide to use emergency defensive firepower. Counter-shock cover fire is used to support composite units (detachments) to destroy the enemy defending the turks and retake important positions occupied by the enemy.
After years of competition, the Indian army realized that the main opponent artillery equipment evolved faster, the future artillery battle is not only to suppress others, but also very likely to be "preemptive" by others when the troops enter or open positions, so the artillery "anti-artillery warfare" has been elevated to an important height, at present, India's military artillery brigade has set up anti-artillery warfare staff, in combat, the commander of the composite force according to the advice of his artillery commander, respectively stipulate the "positive policy" or "negative policy" of anti-artillery warfare. The so-called positive policy refers to the bombardment of an enemy artillery company or a single artillery that has been fired at the already side, and the negative policy is not to organize a counterattack against the enemy artillery, but to obtain only information about the enemy artillery company or artillery, so that it can respond effectively when needed. The Indian army generally only ordered artillery fire participating in anti-artillery warfare through the anti-artillery warfare staff. Anti-artillery firepower is divided into suppressive fire and destructive fire.
In terms of reaction time, the Indian artillery has accumulated data on long-term combat drills. According to statistics, taking the time from the deployment of the 105 mm MK.I/II field artillery regiment (16-gun system) of the common infantry division from deployment to entering the position as an example, it takes 55 minutes during the day, while at night it is increased to 1 hour, 15 minutes to 2 hours and 30 minutes, and the corresponding indicators of the military artillery brigade equipped with 155 mm howitzers are 4 hours and 6 hours, respectively, which is more than one-third more time than similar artillery units in developed countries. In terms of fire reaction time, the Reaction Time of the Indian Field Artillery Regiment is 4-5 minutes during the day to the planned target, 35 minutes to the temporary target, and 5-6 minutes and 40 minutes at night. Obviously, with such an ability to "compete" with neighboring countries, India's "fan confidence" that is talked about by the outside world is still very popular. W
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