Anti-tank weapon test from MBT Arjun successful

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BHUBANESWAR: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday successfully test-fired an anti-tank weapon having a strike range of 5 km from a next-gen tank at a defence test facility off Odisha coast.


Defence sources said the ammunition, fired from main battle tank (MBT) Arjun Mk-II at the firing point-II of the Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE) at Chandipur during noon, hit the target as expected.


“The high explosive anti-tank weapon was fired from the indigenously developed Arjun tank in salvo mode against a decommissioned tank. In this complicated exercise, the ammunition successfully hit the tank,” said a defence official from New Delhi.


The aim and objective of the test was to capture data generated during the trial and analyse it whether the weapon had that required effect on the target. Besides gauging the efficiency of the advanced Arjun tank which is a pride of DRDO, the test also confirmed the firepower of the ammunition.


“Similar trials also have been planned in coming days. Though open firing from Arjun tank has been conducted in the Pokhran range of Rajasthan several times, this time an instrumented tank was targeted during the trial,” the official said.


The Arjun is a third generation main battle tank developed by DRDO. It features a 120 mm main rifled gun with indigenously developed armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding-sabot ammunition, one PKT 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun and an NSVT 12.7 mm machine gun.The tank is powered by a single MTU multi-fuel diesel engine rated at 1,400 hp and can achieve a maximum speed of 67 km/h and a cross-country speed of 40 km/h.


The tank has proved its worth under various circumstances. In 2015, it had received global accolades with the Chinese military officials praising the tank which suits Indian conditions. Arjun was commissioned in the Army in 2004 while its Mk-II version has undergone design changes for better firepower.
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I searched the forum but didn't found this article hence I have posted it.
better late then never

 

[fsayed]

1st Gen or mclos operator must aim & steer missile. 2nd Gen just keep laser on target. 3rd fire & forget

4th Gen may be resistant to electronic counter measures which is vulnerability of 3rd.

What's weird is, I've seen both nag & spike referred to as 3rd & 4th. May just be media hype terms.

Technically speaking just 3 gens :

Mclos Manual command to Los
Usually joystick

Sclos semi auto to Los
Radio, laser, wire or camera guide it to crosshair

3rd Gen is laser, ir or w band radar + fire & forget. They may be calling on fly target switching 4th Gen.
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Newer missiles use tandem charges. However older system like kornet can also use those.

Nag ability to change target in flight without use of wire is unique I think. Spike has trailing fiber optic wire & javelin is shorter range.

Atm, both nag & javelin use thermal only. Disadvantages being added weight of refrigeration unit & time needed to cool.

Javelin manufacturer estimate is 30s to cool but can be longer in desert.

Nag has better seeker & mmw seeker will give it all weather capability.

Nag has cost advantage over javelin & spike. Only costs around 1lakh us per missile. Javelin is double, spike even more.

This is without mass production yet.


Nag has subsonic speed of 230m/s though. Only armata can probably stop it though & it will be fired in salvos so w/e.


10km range for land & air is good. 4km range for namica is very risky. 3rd Gen mitigates this somewhat, especially if it can fire on move. Assume so as it can change targets after launch,
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Chinese, Russian & German.

Hj12, 9m123 Khrizantema (aforementioned bmp3 missile) & pars 3.

First two are inducted, but 2nd Gen.

Hj10 series in general seem to be hellfire copies. So laser & radar beam. Hj12 manpad with softlaunch but only laser lock is in development.

9m123 has advantage of being supersonic at 400m/s (Mach 1.2) Vs nag 230. 6-7km range.
It is technically 2nd Gen but has laser & radar beam riding so harder to jam. Makes bmp3 very vulnerable as article points out.


Takes 3-6s for bmp3 to hit target, good gunner can hit tank shell in half.


Pars has 7km range, 290m/s (Mach 1 is 340) otherwise mediocre. French German project may not be completed for awhile. Also only air or helo launched. They will probably be better off buying Nag.


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Conclusion : USA Israel may be ahead of curve but, Nag even in current form outdoes both. If we can get namica in numbers by 2022 with few more km range


we will have best tank destroyer force

 

[SingaporeGuy]

Pointless.

The most logical thing is to fire an anti tank missile on the arjun to test it

 

[Kal Muah]

Pointless.

The most logical thing is to fire an anti tank missile on the arjun to test it

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