the Arjun has a weight problem (which was made known in
established military mag eg Janes)
My dear friend, The Arjun is a heavy tank, Janes must have
written articles about its heavy weight, but it is not for Janes to
decide how much weight the tank can have or not. It is for the IA
to decide whether the tank is acceptable to them or not. If going
by the weight statistics the U.S army must have rejected the M1A1
and the further variants.
please do not let your 'patriotic Indian sentiments'
cloud/deflect the issue/criticisms here
Never, we must not just argue blindly and try to criticise a
tank or anyother product unwantly. I had said that there were
problems regarding the Arjun's durng the development phase. A lot
of them. But they are all solved, the Army has accepted them and
today the Arjun's are rolling out of the Avadi factory.
Most of us, I believe, have no access to these new Indian
military hardware gems and therefore, the points raised are based
on what we read in mags.
Exactly, the Indian media is very ignorant about the defence
sector. They did not have access to information or press releases
on what is happening and if they did not get any info for a long
time, they sit to write their own stories of which most will be
negative.
the Arjun is nothin if it cannot hold its own & defeat the
proliferation of Chinese-made tanks by your ....you know who .
Yes, i know, that's the main reason for going for the T-90
tanks. And at that time (during which the said state went to
purchse the T-80) the Arjun had problems like Engine overheating,
FCS not working properly etc. So they went for the T-90's
The current strategy is for this two tanks i.e the Arjun and T-90's
to be inducted. The Arjun will be there to punch and to take hits
from the T-80's.
This is a shift in our strategy. I think we are moving towards a
stategy similar to the U.S. We cannot afford to lose our tank man
in a war. Survivability is a very important issue. Tanks can be
made and if they survive they can fight again and knock out more
enemy tanks.
