Indian MoD approves local production of 114 Dhanush howitzers

India’s state-owned Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has been granted formal approval by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to licence-build 114 Dhanush 155 mm/45-calibre towed howitzers for the Indian Army (IA).

Official sources told Jane’s the OFB’s Gun Carriage Factory (GCF) in