unlike what one member was saying , the suspension is indigenous rather than german, and its been drastically improved on this variant, for supreme ride comfort and stability.....the hunter capability being included for night time is another huge edge....the aps is not confirmed...thought my Cvrde source did say that they're partial to the trophy, as it had performed the best, in trials, as against the arena and the leds-150..though the latter was very close...What i think is that, the aps will be procured for retrofitting on these babies , through a seperate tender once induction is underway......
finally, the kanchan armour alone, was able to withstand point blank hits from the best russian and israeli ammo we could lay hands on.....its been beefed up since then....Add that to the era (and the armour plating IS era) ...and i'd be very surprised if even a nato standard long rod penetrator gets through this one.......I'm not trying to troll here, but this tank takes it away on sheer armour...it could well be one of the best protected mbts on the planet.......way more that what the ruskie legacy tanks have......they are designed with a different doctrine....they ditched the whole heavy tank concept after the iosef stalin series....havent even had anything heavy in inventory since the 70s...their idea was to overwhelm through numbers....and it gave nato sleepless night, thinking about the sheer weight of numbers they's encounter. The western design concept is built around superior tanks..with a higher profile , for being able to decline the gun enough to fire from behind cover....the arjun mk2 will go toe to toe with any western mbt in service today