INDIA TAN EXCALIBUR SHELL LEH JAVELIN ANTI-TANK MISSILE

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INDIA TAN EXCALIBUR SHELL LEH JAVELIN ANTI-TANK MISSILE
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India To Acquire Ukraine War’s “Most Dangerous” Weapon! U.S. OKs Deadly Excalibur Shells For Indian Army
Touted as “the most dangerous” weapon in the Ukrine War, the US has approved the sale of the Excalibur M982A1, arguably the most popular and widely used precision-guided 155 mm artillery round in the world, to India.

The Javelin anti-tank missile has also been green-lit for sale.
The US State Department approved two Foreign Military Sales (FMS) totalling USD92.8 million on November 20. These approvals, notified to the U.S. Congress by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), mark a significant boost to India’s defense modernization efforts, enhancing its capabilities in long-range precision strikes and anti-armor warfare, particularly along contested borders with China and Pakistan

While hosting the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US in February 2025, US President Donald Trump said, “Starting this year, we’ll be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars.”The latest approval potentially builds on that pledge, and comes at a time when the two sides are trying to reach a trade deal and ease tensions after Trump imposed 50% tariffs on India earlier this year.

Moreover, it comes weeks after India and the US signed a framework agreement in October 2025 to expand defence cooperation over the next 10 years.
At the time, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the agreement would enhance “coordination, information sharing and tech cooperation” and advance “regional stability and deterrence.

The DSCA emphasized that these sales “will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to strengthen the U.S.-Indian strategic relationship and to improve the security of a major defense partner which continues to be an important force for political stability, peace, and economic progress in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia regions.” India is expected to have “no difficulty absorbing these articles and services into its armed forces,” it added.

After Ukraine began receiving these Western shells in 2022, its artillery crews gained a decisive edge in counter-battery fire.
Ukrainian forces were able to rapidly locate and destroy Russian guns and ammunition depots with just a few rounds, often from distances of 30–40 kilometers.

This drastically reduced Russia’s ability to amass ammunition near the front lines and sustain the high rates of fire that had characterized its early artillery advantage. In many sectors, the arrival of these precision 155 mm ammunition effectively neutralized Russia’s numerical superiority in tubes and shells

In January 2023, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militia said that these guided shells made up “the most dangerous” part of US military aid to Ukraine and emphasized that they must be destroyed while still in storage facilities.

Eventually, the Russians found a way around this, and their Electronic Warfare systems started to impact their accuracy. However, if there is one thing the Ukraine War has taught the world, it is that artillery remains a central part of all ground combat.

India, for one, takes its artillery very seriously, as demonstrated by the several wars that it has fought with Pakistan. Artillery remains the “God of War” in India’s most likely conflict scenarios—especially in the mountains where everything else is terrain-limited