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STK products,as suggested by few learned forumers here,
are next to scrap metal.
How come ONLY STK Pegasus 155 mm/39 cal lightweight howitzer
is short listed with BAE Systems's M777 155 mm/39 cal towed howitzer
to bid for India 140 ultra-light 155 mm/39 cal howitzers contract?
No need to say,there are many co want to get this contract.
http://www.india-defence.com/reports-3230
http://www.india-defence.com/reports-3874
Ya.They would say because STK is poor quality,therefore it is cheap!!
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/land/jdw/jdw080313_1_n.shtml
Two line up bids for Indian Army howitzer contract
By Rahul Bedi
13 March 2008
I think contract worths about US $ 1 billion.
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http://www.indiaprwire.com/businessnews/20080211/27335.htm
''New Delhi, Delhi, India, 2008-02-11 18:45:03
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The Indian Army has floated a second global tender for 155mm self-propelled wheeled artillery guns, even as it is readying a third tender for the towed variety of the gun, an official said Monday.
This follows a tender floated last month for ultra-light howitzers, with the total deal for 400 guns expected to be in the region of $2 billion. Of these, 140 guns will be of the ultra-light category, 185 of the wheeled version and the balance 175 of the towed version.
'Yes, I can confirm that the request for proposal (RFP) has gone out for the wheeled gun,' a defence ministry said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
While the tender for the ultra-light guns is believed to have been issued to Britain's BAE Systems and Singapore Technologies, that for the wheeled version is understand to have gone out to at least five companies, including BAE Systems and Germany's Rheinmetall, and two Israeli companies.
The army desperately needs the additional howitzers to ramp up depleting stocks of a similar number of guns it had bought from Swedish manufacturer Bofors in the mid-1980s.''end of quote
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