The turret-less vehicle has an open area in the centre for the gun and crew but retains the driver's position and includes a horizontal metal shield for overhead protection.

To withstand higher firing stresses and to cater for longer recoil the Vijayanta tank's hull has been elongated with seven bogie wheel stations on either side.

The self-propelled medium artillery gun can fire both HE and AP ammunition and has a maximum range of 27 km.

[1] After the 1965 and 1971 wars between India and Pakistan, the Army was in search of mobile (self propelled) artillery gun systems, primarily for the strike formations on the western borders.

[2] The platform is based on the Soviet 130 mm M-46 field gun mounted on a lengthened hull of the ageing British/Indian Vijayanta tank.