The M777 news is pretty big. It will make India the number two user behind the US. Canada has 37. Saudi Arabia has 36, and Australia has 35 of them.The US Military has over 1,000 of them.Odds are, that as the Indians produce them and like them…they will end up building many more. I would not be surprised to see the Indians build in the neighborhood of 300 of them before all is said and done.The M777 is a great weapon. It will shoot the standard 155mm shells, but also shoots the ER munition, the M982 Excalibur round. This round is a precision guided munition with a range than can be 25 miles or more.In fact, the first time the US used the M982 Excalibur round in combat with the M777 was in June 2012. They dropped those babies on insurgents in Afghanistan in Helmud Province, over 22 miles away (336 kilometers). It was Golf Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, who are permanently based at Camp Pendleton, CA. and were deployed to Aghanistan at the time, who did the shooting. Those shots stand to this day as the longest M777 on-target combat shots to date.