political ramifications had severely crippled the Indian Army's procurement of artillery guns.as part of an order for 145 guns.India had struck a government-to-governmentlast November for supply of the 145 howitzers at a cost of nearly Rs 5,000 crore.While 25 guns will come in a fly-away condition, the rest will be assembled in India by the BAE Systems in partnership with Mahindra Defence.The Army has been pressing the government to speed up its modernisation programme.In a major decision, the government last week hadand spares for key weapons systems to maintain combat readiness for short duration "intense wars".The move, aimed at filling the "voids" in the Army's combat readiness, came amid nearly a month-long standoff between the armies of India and China in the Dokalam area as well as heightenedarticles (read them here) and in the video documentary we co-produced with The Weather Channel (watch it here).

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