{"id":87579,"date":"2022-08-11T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=87579"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:22:18","slug":"on-independence-day-a-21-gun-salute-will-be-fired-by-a-home-grown-artillery-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/on-independence-day-a-21-gun-salute-will-be-fired-by-a-home-grown-artillery-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"On Independence Day, a 21-gun salute will be fired by a home-grown artillery gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:&nbsp;<\/strong>In a first, an indigenously developed artillery gun will be part of the ceremonial 21-gun salute during the Independence Day ceremony at Red Fort on August 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar said on Wednesday that the home-grown advanced towed artillery gun system (ATAGS) howitzer will be used for the 21-gun salute along with the British ceremonial guns which are being traditionally used till now.<br \/><br \/>The artillery gun has been developed under the government&#8217;s &#8216;Make in India&#8217; initiative by the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO).<br \/><br \/>The Defence Ministry said the initiative to use the indigenously developed gun will stand as a testament to India&#8217;s growing capacity of developing arms and ammunition indigenously.<br \/><br \/>The gun has been especially customised, with certain technical specifications being tweaked for the ceremony.<br \/><br \/>The ministry said a team of DRDO&#8217;s Armament Research &amp; Development Establishment, Pune, led by scientists and artillery officers worked in the project to make use of the gun possible for the Independence Day ceremony.<br \/><br \/>ATAGS howitzer is the first in the world to have a range of 45 km and it&#8217;s self-propelled and can be towed easily, said Sangam Sinha, DG <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This specialised gun system is configured with an all-electric drive that will ensure maintenance free and reliable operation over longer periods of time. It consists of a barrel of 6,875mm, breech mechanism, muzzle brake and recoil mechanism to fire 155 mm calibre ammunition with a firing range of 48 kilometre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The howitzer is integrated with advanced features like high mobility, quick deployability, auxiliary power mode, automatic command and control system, and advanced communication system with night vision capability in direct-fire mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(R&amp;M), DRDO.<br \/><br \/>The ATAGS project was started in 2013 by the DRDO to replace older guns in service in the Indian Army with a modern 155mm artillery gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:&nbsp;In a first, an indigenously developed artillery gun will be part of the ceremonial 21-gun salute during the Independence Day ceremony at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[430,561],"class_list":["post-87579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-day","tag-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87581,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579\/revisions\/87581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}