Younis Ahmad Kaloo

At the recently concluded 10^th edition of DefExpo, which witnessed the participation of 671 exhibitors, of which 517 were local, India’s defence manufacturers had on display their sophisticated weapon systems and offered them as solutions to modern-day needs of the Indian armed forces.

Kalyani Group’s stand

Kalyani Group, an Indian multinational showcased five-gun platforms, including the 155/39 calibre gun system called Ultra-Light Howitzer (ULH) which was launched at the exhibition. Termed the ‘futuristic artillery gun’, the ULH comes in two variants: the conventional Recoil ULH and Advance Hybrid Recoil ULH.

According to the company, Conventional Recoil ULH is a 155mm/39 calibre long range field artillery weapon system weighing less than 4.8 tonnes. While Advance Hybrid Recoil ULH is a variant of Conventional ULH which incorporates state-of-the-art advanced recoil system, thus further bringing down the weight of the gun to less than 4.5 tonnes.

The guns, as the company said, have been explicitly designed to meet the growing requirements for flexible and accurate artillery fire support capable of rapid re-deployment by the bat