'Desi Bofors' Dhanush inducted in Army in bid to modernise artillery

The Dhanush is developed from blueprints supplied by Bofors in the 1980s, when India bought 400 Swedish FH-77B howitzers

In an important step towards upgrading the combat power of the artillery, the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) on Monday handed over the first six Dhanush 155 millimetre (mm) artillery guns to the army. This is part of an order for 114 guns being delivered by the OFB’s Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur. 

The Dhanush is also called the “Desi Bofors”, having been developed from blueprints supplied by Bofors in the 1980s, when India bought 400 Swedish FH-77B howitzers (or, interchangeably, guns). Embroiled in scandal, the Bofors manufacturing blueprints were never used. Only after the gun proved its worth in the Kargil