Again I am wasting precious bandwidth asking you this, but let's give it a try , How can a " total disaster and crap" equipment beat T90 hands down ?? And this not a rumor or something someone said or someone with internal contacts knew, it's well documented and presented. Not only that the comparative trial was rigged in favor of T90 and even then it performed, if not poorly, on par with Arjun. IA is "Buying" equipment because of Kick-backs and they will not get any if they go local.
I agree that politicians are dumb but the information they get are not from dumb sources. Also if you say Mr.Manohar Parrikar then you are no judge of people. He is an IITian and head and shoulder above any army brass. Moreover we believe in our research agencies more than our armed forces. Note that we TRUST our armed forces with our lives but when it comes to technology we trust our research agencies. And when they say A is better than B with supporting raw data, no one can question them.
Our old DM did try to screw us over. It was not only him alone the entire govt. try to do the same. The aftermath of their action was visible in the last election. Also how is my blind patriotism affecting me ?? Both T90 and Arjun are in IA, both are more than capable of handling PA. It dose not matter if PA gets hit by T90 or Arjun, both are gonna hurt bad. Its just we Indians saying lets build a tank at home, cut the middle man.
One thing that is puzzling me, if Pakistanis know that Arjun is inferior to T90 and T90 is way too inferior to their mighty Al Khalid, then why are they getting panties in a twist when we say Arjun is better than T90 ?? They know our homegrown stuff is " total disaster and crap" and their AL Khalid, which is almost heavenly, immortal and Cheap all at the same time, can crush it by just showing up to the battle field, why are they worried about Arjun ??? Plus they do have 1 Pakistani = 10 Kafirs thing going !!