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May 16, 2000
   

India has received the first shipment of 155mm Krasnopol-M laser-guided artillery shells from Russia. It has 1,000 such shells on order. It will use the shells with its FH77B howitzers. The Russians have been producing their Krasnopol laser-guided rounds in NATO calibers for the export market.--Stephen V Cole