India's US-made M-777's barrel damaged during field trial
The barrel of a â¹35 crore M-777 howitzer gun got damaged during a field trial in Rajasthan's Pokhran, after a shell misfired and exploded inside it. It was the third instance of barrel damage due to the defective High Explosive shells in four months. The artillery gun was one of the two such guns that have been shipped from US.