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The Indian Ordnance Factories predate all the other organisations like the Indian Army and the Indian Railways by over a century. The first Indian ordnance factory can trace its origins back to the year 1712 when the Dutch Ostend Company established a Gun Powder Factory in Ichhapur. [25]
The military budget of India is about 1.49% for the year 2018–19 of the total GDP. [16] However, it spends nearly an equal amount in importing defence equipment from other countries.
The first arms manufacturing facility on the site was a gunpowder factory, which was started in 1787 by Tipu Sultan and began production in 1791, whilst a gun & carriage manufacturing facility was set up nearby in 1801.
OFIL Ishapore is the training institute under the Advance Weapon & Equipments India Ltd., a Government of India enterprise under ministry of Defence.The institute is engaged in imparting and upgrading technical, and managerial skills.
Modern 120 mm tank gun shells. KE penetrators for modern tanks are commonly 2–3 cm (0.787–1.18 in) in diameter, and can approach 80 cm (31.5 in) long. As more structurally efficient penetrator-sabot designs are developed their length tends to increase, in order to defeat even greater line-of-sight armour depth.