Category: Firepower
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FIREPOWER AND ARTILLERY : A FUTURISTIC PERSPECTIVE PART 4 : Firepower in The Indian Context
Today, the book Force in Statecraft, An Indian Perspective was released in the National Defence College, New Delhi. The book has chapters on various aspects of utilizing ‘Force’ as an instrument of national power. The panorama is vast and covers various aspects from nuclear to conventional to less than conventional operations in the land air and sea…
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FIREPOWER AND ARTILLERY : A FUTURISTIC PERSPECTIVE PART 3 : CHINESE OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS AND EMPLOYMENT OF FIREPOWER by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Part 1 : Preamble @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/10/firepower-and-artillery-futuristic.html Part 2 : Effects on Firepower in the Himalayas @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/10/fire-power-and-artillery-futuristic.html Operational Approaches In 2020, India and China came closest to war since 1962. There were unprecedented fatal and non-fatal causalities due to clashes in Galwan and Finger 4. Infantry and armour were in eyeball to eyeball confrontation mode. There were…
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Fire Power and Artillery: A Futuristic Perspective Part 2 : Effects on Firepower in the Himalayas by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Part 1 : Preamble @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/10/firepower-and-artillery-futuristic.html When I attended the Staff College at Wellington, our Chief Instructor taught us that 60% of any military plan is dependent on the ‘Ground’ factor and 30% on the ‘Enemy’ – capabilities, organisation and characteristics. The balance 10% is our ‘Own’ capabilities. Hence a discussion of firepower in the…
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Firepower and Artillery : A Futuristic Perspective by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Part 1 : Preamble This is the first in a series which I had outlined in my article on Gunners Day on the Future of Artillery Winston Churchill famously said that ‘Renown awaits the commander who first restores Artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield’. There is a converse to it. Infamy awaits those who relegate Artillery and…
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INTERVIEW WITH INDIA TODAY
I had an interesting discussion with Sandeep Unnithan of India Today on the reports in SCMP on deployment of MLRS by China in Tibet. The discussion in below. The link below is the video recording. It gives you a better perspective. I would suggest you read this interview in conjunction with my earlier articles 1. Force Multiplication of Rebalancing 2. Non Contact Conventional…
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The Old Order Passeth
When the Artillery Profile 2027 was written in 2008, it was visualised that the 130 mm Catapult and 160mm Tempella Heavy Mortars would de decommissioned and made obsolete in a couple of years. However that was not to be for many reasons. Finally these guns are being laid to rest with the induction of modern…
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THE WIDER NATIONAL PROBLEM BEYOND PINAKA By LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
WISHING ALL OF YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR The Comment “Long range artillery aided with precision can be a suitable complement for air-power and lack of fighter sqns of the IAF. The precision and low cost should be enough for us to procure the same. The precision element included in long range rockets will also…
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Watch out! India set to have world's most fearsome artillery
https:// Watch out! India set to have world’s most fearsome artillery Our surveillance, target acquisition and retaliatory capabilities are climbing a ‘never before’ path. POLITICS | 5-minute read | 23-05-2017 LT-GEN PR SHANKAR (RETD) A few days ago, the arrival of the first two 155mm M777 ultra-light howitzers on Indian soil was hailed by the…
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Should Korean mishap raise doubts over Indian Army's future artillery gun?
Accidents during firing of guns have been a part and parcel of a gunner’s life since time immemorial. POLITICS | 8-minute read | 24-08-2017 LT-GEN PR SHANKAR (RETD) https://www.dailyo.in/politics/k-9-howitzer-south-korea-firing-accident-india/story/1/19136.html Last week there was an accident during the firing of the 155mm Gun K-9 Thunder in South Korea in which two of their soldiers were killed. This was reported…
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Non-Contact Conventional Deterrence by Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd)
Original Article @ bharatshakti.in December 06, 2019; Editor’s Note The author addresses an issue that’s been debated less often. How to make deterrence stronger along the conventional axis? His reliance is more on precision and long-range artillery to cause attrition to counterforce targets. The capability enhancement in these areas has not kept pace with the emerging…
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