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Delhi's 505 EME Workshop overhauls the first T-90

The first T-90 tank to be overhauled in India was flagged off last week in Delhi.
Two T-90 tanks were subjected to extensive accelerated user cum reliability trials by the Army and fed to 505 Army Base Workshop for overhaul in 2009. A team of three officers and 26 technicians trained in India and abroad completed the overhaul of the first tank in 214 days demonstrating the capability to undertake the complex task within the country. The overhaul carried out at a cost of Rs 4 Crores gives a life extension of about 15 years to the tank and saves the exchequer Rs 14 Crore.

Induction into the Indian Army started in Feb 2002 with 310 tanks in the first phase. Over the time the T-90 tanks will replace the 2400 odd T-72 tanks which currently form the mainstay of the armoured formations .
 
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Mahindra Satyam inks defence tech deal with Saab

Mahindra Satyam Ltd said on Tuesday that it won an IT outsourcing contract from Swedish defence and aerospace firm Saab to develop applications and technology solutions in India for the global defence and security market.

In a deal valued at around $300 million, Mahindra Satyam and Saab will jointly address the battlefield management system for the Indian army, the company said in a statement. The contract is spread over a period of five years.

Mahindra Satyam said that it has already initiated the setting up of a centre of excellence for network centric warfare (CoE-NCW) which will offer comprehensive skills and a repository of tools, systems, middleware, integration platforms and system showcases in the field of NCW.

The company through the CoE hopes to tap the high potential market for nationwide security, for which the Indian government has large investment plans. ''This relationship will jumpstart our foray in mission critical areas of defence. Our commitment in the domestic market will be reaffirmed by this collaboration and also set the stage to enter uncharted territories in the global arena,'' said C P Gurnani, chief executive of Mahindra Satyam.

The centre, which will be accessible to both the partners, is for mission critical applications and command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence solutions for global opportunities. The capabilities of the centre will also span areas of homeland security to provide end to end security solutions.

''We view this relationship with Mahindra Satyam as a strategic meeting of two highly skilled teams believing in technical and engineering excellence,'' said Åke Svensson, President and chief executive of Saab.

Mahindra Satyam, which counts Citigroup, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, Cisco Systems Inc and Nissan among its top five clients, has over 430 clients now. Over the last four months, the company gained over 32 new customers including some large clients.

Satyam was acquired by Pune based IT services firm Tech Mahindra in April, after the firm's defamed founder B Ramalinga Raju confessed to perpetrating India's biggest corporate fraud. Customer confidence took a knock after Raju's confession.

The company is attempting to regain contracts and enter into new strategic alliances to turn-around, even as its accounts are in the process of being re-stated.
 
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Mahindra Satyam inks defence tech deal with Saab

Mahindra Satyam Ltd said on Tuesday that it won an IT outsourcing contract from Swedish defence and aerospace firm Saab to develop applications and technology solutions in India for the global defence and security market.

In a deal valued at around $300 million, Mahindra Satyam and Saab will jointly address the battlefield management system for the Indian army, the company said in a statement. The contract is spread over a period of five years.

Mahindra Satyam said that it has already initiated the setting up of a centre of excellence for network centric warfare (CoE-NCW) which will offer comprehensive skills and a repository of tools, systems, middleware, integration platforms and system showcases in the field of NCW.

The company through the CoE hopes to tap the high potential market for nationwide security, for which the Indian government has large investment plans. ''This relationship will jumpstart our foray in mission critical areas of defence. Our commitment in the domestic market will be reaffirmed by this collaboration and also set the stage to enter uncharted territories in the global arena,'' said C P Gurnani, chief executive of Mahindra Satyam.

The centre, which will be accessible to both the partners, is for mission critical applications and command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence solutions for global opportunities. The capabilities of the centre will also span areas of homeland security to provide end to end security solutions.

''We view this relationship with Mahindra Satyam as a strategic meeting of two highly skilled teams believing in technical and engineering excellence,'' said Åke Svensson, President and chief executive of Saab.

Mahindra Satyam, which counts Citigroup, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, Cisco Systems Inc and Nissan among its top five clients, has over 430 clients now. Over the last four months, the company gained over 32 new customers including some large clients.

Satyam was acquired by Pune based IT services firm Tech Mahindra in April, after the firm's defamed founder B Ramalinga Raju confessed to perpetrating India's biggest corporate fraud. Customer confidence took a knock after Raju's confession.

The company is attempting to regain contracts and enter into new strategic alliances to turn-around, even as its accounts are in the process of being re-stated.

Is this deal, the first to be Inked following the new defense procurement plan(DPP) ?

It sounds a lot like it is.
 
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Army warms up to Akash missile

India’s long-criticised Akash anti-aircraft missile is now blazing towards success. Its counterparts in the DRDO’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, the Prithvi and Agni ballistic missiles, were on target from the start; the anti-tank Nag missile will also enter service shortly; the Trishul short-range anti-aircraft missile was abandoned unceremoniously. Now, after years of rejection from the military, the Akash is being accepted as a world-class missile.

The IAF’s order last year for two Akash squadrons — dismissed by sceptics as a face-saving burial for the Akash programme — has just been doubled with a fresh IAF order for 16 more launchers that will be stationed in northeast India. And now, Business Standard has accessed even better news for the Akash programme: the Indian Army is considering ordering several Akash squadrons for its ground forces.

The DRDO’s Chief Controller for R&D, Prahlada, has confirmed that the army is displaying fresh interest in the Akash. Asked for details, Prahlada told Business Standard, “I cannot say whether the army is interested in the Akash for its strike corps, or for another role. In any case, the Akash is a mobile system that is suitable for various roles.”

But protecting fast-moving tank columns from enemy fighters is what the Akash does best. For years the DRDO laboured to fit the entire Akash system — including radars, missile launchers and command centres — into T-72 tanks. This provided the Akash with the cross-country mobility to advance deep into enemy territory along with Indian Army strike corps, shooting down enemy fighters at ranges as far out as 25 kilometres.

Planned as a replacement for the army’s obsolescent Russian SAM-6 Kvadrat, the heart of an Akash missile battery is the Hyderabad-developed Rajendra phased-array radar that tracks up to 64 enemy fighter aircraft simultaneously, in a radius of 60 kilometres. The mobile command centre selects up to four of the most threatening air targets, and two Akash missiles are fired at each from the T-72 based Akash launchers, which move alongside. The Rajendra radar continuously guides the missiles, eventually “flying” them smack into the enemy fighters.

Theoretically, a “ripple” of two Akash missiles has a 99 per cent chance of shooting down a modern fighter aircraft. Practically, however, in 9 live Akash trials so far, all 9 missiles that were fired hit their targets. Videos of the firing trials, witnessed by Business Standard, show the Akash missiles smashing their targets into tiny fragments at ranges beyond 20 kilometres.

The DRDO has taken 20 years to develop the cross-country mobile, tank-mounted version of the Akash missile system that the army is now interested in. Criticism of this delay has been vocal, but the DRDO counters by pointing to the quality of its product: the Akash, says the DRDO, is the only system of its kind available globally.

A top DRDO scientist at the missile complex in Hyderabad points out, “Western countries like France, which make missiles in the technological league of the Akash, don’t mount the entire system on a tank, something that the Indian Army insists on. Only the Russians build tank-mounted missile systems, but their missile technology is far inferior to that of the Akash. All that the Russians can offer today is the next generation of the Kvadrat.”

The defence PSU, Bharat Electronics Limited, is the nodal production agency for the Akash missile system, supported by a broad consortium of Indian public and private sector manufacturers who contribute components and sub-systems. Bharat Dynamics Limited manufactures the solid-fuel, two-stage, ramjet Akash missile itself.

Army warms up to Akash missile IDRW.ORG

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Indian tank fights doubts over performance

The Indian army will take at least 124 of the controversial Indian-made Arjun tanks by April, according to media reports.But the army still doubts its performance as the country’s proposed main battle tank to replace hundreds of Russian-made T-90 tanks.W. Selvamurthy, head of research and development at the Defense Research and Development Organization, made the announcement, saying many of the tanks are already being manufactured and getting readied for delivery.
“All of them will get inducted into the armed forces in March and April,” Selvamurthy said in a report in the Times of India newspaper. “Other organizations are also giving us orders.”He was speaking at the valedictory function of a training course at the Defense Institute of Advanced Technology at Girinagar, near the city of Pune.The DRDO project manages the Arjun, which has been designed and is being made by Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment at Avadi, in the state of Tamil Nadu.
But the project has been 35 years in the making, and getting the first batch operational has been a battle in itself, lasting a decade, according to a report in the Hindustan Times newspaper last May.Around 45 examples are already being used by the army, said the report. Yet the vehicle faces extensive comparative trials with the T-90s to see just how much the military can depend on it.The Hindustan Times article said the Arjun was plagued with a number of major problems concerning its fire control system, suspension and poor mobility due to its excessive weight, coming in at just under 60 tons. The T-90s weigh in at around 45 tons.
Performance issues rose as early as 2000 prompting the army to begin ordering the T-90s instead of waiting for improvements to, and delivery of, Arjun tanks.More than 390 T-90s were ordered in 2001, and last November another 347 were ordered. Also, as part of the deal, the Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory in India has begun the licensed manufacture of another 1,000 T-90S tanks. The army is also upgrading nearly 700 T-72 tanks.
In July 2008 the army said it needs nearly 1,800 dependable tanks to replace the older Russian T-55 and T-72 tanks. This will be met through the progressive induction of 1,657 Russian-origin T-90S tanks and 124 Arjuns.The Arjun measures just under 33 feet long and 12 feet wide. Armor is a Kanchan steel-composite sandwich development. A 1,400hp diesel engine gives it an operational range of 280 miles with a speed of 45 mph on roads and 25 mph cross-country.
The 120mm rifled main turret gun can fire the LAHAT anti-tank missile. Secondary armaments are a MAG 7.62mm Tk715 coaxial machine gun and an HCB 12.7mm AA machine gun.Indian media reported in May 2008 that the tank was found to have low accuracy, frequent breakdown of power packs and problems with the gun barrel. Details of failures during trials were embarrassingly noted in question-and-answer times by ministers and elected representatives in the nation’s parliament, the Lok Sabha.
The DRDO said it needs to have up to 300 rolling off the production line in order to see where all the performance issues lie. It wants the army to eventually take at least 500 tanks before any serious upgrades can be considered.The Arjun tank is named after one of the main characters of the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata. The discussion of life and karma is the longest epic poem in the world, being roughly 10 times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined.
The Arjun news comes just after the end of a joint exercise by the Singapore armed Forces and the Indian army in Devlali, India. Soldiers from the 23rd and 24th Battalion, Singapore Artillery, and the Indian army’s 283 Field Regiment took part.The exercise, which included live firing of the SAF’s FH-88 Howitzer guns and 155mm Battery guns from the Indian army, was the fifth in the Agni Warrior series. It began on Oct. 9 and ended Oct. 26.

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India acquires upgraded $1.1 bln Israeli air defences
Updated at: 2300 PST, Monday, November 09, 2009


NEW DELHI: Israel has signed a $1.1 billion contract to supply an upgraded tactical air defence system to India, with delivery expected by 2017, an Israeli official said on Monday.

The sale of the Barak-8 systems came as India's army chief, General Deepak Kapoor, held high-level talks in Israel, India's biggest defence supplier.

Made by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., the Barak-8 is designed for use aboard ships and can shoot down incoming missiles, planes and drones. The most advanced version can be also deployed on land, the Israeli official said.

India has already acquired an earlier generation of the Barak system, the official said.

The Barak-8 contract was signed in April, and delivery of the systems will take place "over the next six to eight years".

The Indian embassy in Tel Aviv had no immediate comment.

India acquires upgraded $1.1 bln Israeli air defences
 
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The hills have eyes

No room to blink on Indo-Pak border as Taliban threat looms

By Syed Nazakat/Rak ki Haveli Post, LoC

In a mud-and-thatch-roof bunker on the mountain, Indian soldiers are getting ready for night patrol. A havildar peers over the sandbags of the machinegun pit. A Pakistani bunker can be seen on a hilltop. A muddy stretch of farmland lies divided into many fields. A few yards away is a Pakistani village where the only concrete building is the mosque. Soldiers at the bunker cannot see beyond the Haji Peer Pass of Pakistan.

It’s dark. The unit commander and eight soldiers set out on foot to patrol the border fence. “While on patrol don’t talk, don’t use torch, and don’t mess around,” he orders. Some soldiers use night-vision goggles, others their bare eyes. Pakistani snipers wearing night-vision glasses can see the glow of a cigarette a mile away. “They will watch as you lift the cigarette to your mouth and figure out where your head is. Then you are gone,” says the officer.

High on these mountains near the Line of Control in Jammu’s Poonch sector, the Army keeps round-the-clock vigil, braving daily confrontations with infiltrators, and the biting cold at night. A barbed wire fence that snakes through the mountains divides India and Pakistan. At some places, the mountain base belongs to India, with the peak in Pakistan’s control.

The patrol party takes a steep, slippery, narrow path cleared of mines towards the fence. Erected along steep mountainsides, the double-row concertina wire fence, 12ft high and 4-9ft wide, is connected to a network of thermal imaging devices and alarm systems. Sharp-edged metal tape and glass pieces on the ground make infiltration difficult; in some places the fence is electrified.

On the Jammu border, the Army uses dogs, which recognise soldiers and civilians and bark at intruders. “No fence in the world can prevent movement unless there is surveillance,” says Lt Col A.K. Gopi. The brief to his unit is to be vigilant 24x7.

Forward posts on both sides of the border have names laced with humour and hatred. Indian soldiers at Rak Ki Haveli Post call Pakistan’s post a ‘*** post’ because, as an officer said, they consider Pakistani soldiers tamed like a ***. Every border sector is divided into grids so that officers can be held accountable for movements in their designated areas. There are four to seven forward posts—each with five to eight soldiers—every kilometre.

Army sources say infiltration attempts have risen over the past year. An officer says infiltrators were trying to enter in small groups, using GPS, cutters, insulators and folding ladders. A 50m tunnel was found at Chapriyal on the Jammu border. “This is a kind of cat-and-mouse fight. The more difficult you make the fence to cross the more new ways they [militants] try to find to sneak in,” says a soldier. Besides, the passes and folds in the mountains help the infiltrators.

But senior military officers say the fence has reduced infiltration by 80 per cent. “Militants have become so desperate that, despite knowing it is almost impossible to cross the fence, they try it, only to get arrested or killed at the border or somewhere in the state. The average life of a militant once he enters the valley is less than a year,” says Lt Col Gopi.

With the fighting between the Pakistan army and the Taliban rages, vigil is the word for the Indian Army. As the patrolling team returns to the bunker, a whistle goes off. It’s the turn of another team of soldiers to go out patrolling.
 
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Army looks for advanced armoured personnel carriers IDRW.ORG

Dazzled by American eight-wheeled Stryker combat vehicles during last month’s `Yudh Abhyas’ Indo-US wargames, the Army has launched

its own hunt for armoured personal carriers (APCs).

A global RFI (request for information) has been issued by Army’s additional directorate general of weapons and equipment for procuring the wheeled APCs. The plan is to acquire at least 100 APCs, to be followed by indigenous production after transfer of technology to an Indian firm.

At present, Army operates over 1,500 APCs or infantry combat vehicles called BMP-I and BMP-II, which can carry around 10 soldiers each, in its 26 mechanised infantry battalions.

It wants the new APCs to be `air-portable’ in IAF’s heavy-lift aircraft and `sea-portable’ in Navy’s amphibious `landing ship tanks’, apart from having advanced weaponry, night-fighting capabilities and NBC (nuclear, chemical and biological) protection.

Army’s hunt for advanced APCs comes soon after the Yudh Abhyas wargames at Babina during which US, eager to grab a major chunk of the lucrative Indian arms market, showcased its high-tech weaponry like the Stryker APCs as well as the Javelin anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs).

Incidentally, as reported earlier, this was the largest overseas deployment of the Strykers after Iraq and Afghanistan, coming as the American soldiers did with 17 Stryker APCs.

Costing around $1.5 million apiece, the Strykers come equipped with advanced weapons, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) protection and C4I (command, control, communications, computers and intelligence) systems.
 
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Indian to get anti-tank missiles from US

India is negotiating with the Untied States to acquire state of the art Javelin anti-tank missile worth several million dollars for large-scale induction. Earlier, India was planning to purchase the Israeli anti-tank missile, Spike. But the missile failed at the trials in Rajasthan deserts. Sources here said the negotiations with the Americans were at advances stage. Both sides may seal the deal by the end of this month coinciding the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington. Media reports suggest that the induction of Javelin could affect India’s indigenously developed Nag anti-tank missiles, which were cleared for production this July after two decades of trials and research. The Indian Army has ordered 443 Nag missiles and 13 missile carriers. Since the Nag was on the drawing board for several years, the army started desperately looking for new generation anti-tank missiles to penetrate modern day tanks, reports said. The Indian Army currently has old Milan missiles, a European product, and the Russian Konkours, both of which are manufactured in India under licence at the Bharat Dynamics Limited.

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Indian Army chief's visit to Germany to boost defence ties news

New Delhi: Indian Army chief of general staff, General Deepak Kapoor, will make a three-day visit to Germany, starting Wednesday, in a bid to strengthen defence relations between the two countries.

Gen Kapoor, currently on a four-day visit to Israel, will arrive in Germany at a time when a new coalition government under the leadership of chancellor, Angela Merkel, has just taken over the reins of power.

As part of his visit, Gen Kapoor will hold parleys with Germany's top military leadership and discuss ways of extending cooperation between the armed forces of both the countries.

Defence relations between the two countries have been increasing in the recent past and India was also one of the organising partners in the Berlin Air Show in 2008.

The two countries have also signed a bilateral Defence Cooperation Agreement in 2006
 
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Lt Gen SR Ghosh to be GOC-in-C of Western Command - Chandigarh - City - The Times of India

CHANDIGARH: Lt Gen Shankar Rajan Ghosh would be the next GOC-in-C of the Western Command headquartwered at Chandimandir. Gen Ghosh will take over
the reign of Indian Army’s one of the most prestigious commands on December 1.

Born at Mathura on May 22, 1952, Gen Ghosh was educated at St Joseph’s Collage, Nainital, after which he joined the National Defence Academy. He was commissioned on November 14, 1971, and immediately participated in the Indo-Pak War in Jammu and Kashmir.

He has held very challenging and selective appointments, both in staff and command. His staff appointments include brigade major of a mountain brigade, military operation directorate at Army HQs, director manpower planning at Army HQs, brigadier general staff at Indian Military Academy, defence and military attache at Embassy of India, USA and additional DG, manpower, (planning and policy) at Army HQs.

He is a graduate of Staff College and Higher Command course. His commands include a brigade in active sector on line of control where he was awarded Sena Medal, GOC of a division in strike corps and GOC of a strike corps.

Ghosh would replace Lt Gen TK Sapru, who will retire on November 30 after putting in 40 years of glorious service in the Indian Army.
 
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Army to deploy more troops along Arunachal border: Report

New Delhi: Apparently, in view of the growing importance of Arunachal in the Sino-Indian relationship, India is beefing up its defences along the China border in Arunachal Pradesh, reports claim on Thursday.

Although New Delhi has not made vocal its concerns regarding China’s military build up near international borders, the report says, it wants to leave nothing to chance.

As per reports published in a leading daily, the government is fast moving to deploy more troops along sensitive borders adjoining China especially in Arunachal Pradesh.

The government is speeding up the process to deploy Indian Army’s 15,000 troops strong 56th division in Arunachal Pradesh within a month.

However, on the diplomatic front, New Delhi has constantly downplayed concerns and fears that there was some thing seriously wrong between the two nuclear-powered states and that the Sino-India ties were souring slowly.


This line of thought gained more prominence after the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jibao last month.

As per the report, the Indian Army has also forwarded a Request for Information (RFI) for acquiring 300 lightweight tanks for deployment in the Northeastern states and in Jammu & Kashmir.

Indian Army will also deploy its second division in Arunachal Pradesh in the next 12-18 months.

The RFI send by the Indian Army has made special request for providing light tanks capable of destroying bunkers and soft-skin vehicles up to 3,000m away and equipped with armour-piercing anti-tank guided missiles and anti-aircraft machine guns.

The RFI also stipulates these tanks should “have protection against nuclear, chemical and biological warfare”.

India has recently operationalised three airfields along the 646 km Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, which were not used since the 1962 war with China.

Besides, the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police have also stepped up surveillance and patrolling along the LAC.
 
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MoD puts on hold dealings with 7 firms IDRW.ORG

MoD puts on hold dealings with 7 firms

The defence ministry has decided to keep all dealings with the seven companies blacklisted in connection with the corruption scandal


against former Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) chairman Sudipto Ghosh “on hold” till the CBI probe into the case is completed.

As reported by TOI earlier, four of the seven companies are foreign: Israeli Military Industries (IMI), Singapore Technologies, Media Architects (Singapore) and BVT Poland. The other three are HYT Engineering, T S Kishan and Company, and R K Machine Tools.

In effect, after consulting the law ministry and the Central Vigilance Commission, MoD has ruled out leniency to any tainted firm even if the acquisition plans of the armed forces are badly affected.

The decision, for instance, has hit the Rs 1,200-crore OFB-IMI project to set up an ordnance complex of five plants at Nalanda in Bihar to manufacture propellant charges for heavy calibre artillery ammunition for Bofors howitzers and other guns.

Moreover, the Pegasus howitzer of Singapore Technologies, one of the biggest aerospace and land systems company in Asia, was the leading contender to bag the Army order for 140 air-mobile ultra-light howitzers for around Rs 2,900 crore.

The firm was also a contender in the Rs 8,000-crore project to buy 400 155mm/52-calibre towed artillery guns as well as indigenous manufacture of another 1,100 howitzers after transfer of technology.

Under the new MoD orders, even if a contract has been concluded and executed, then action will be taken against the companies on completion of the CBI probe.

“No tender will be awarded to the companies mentioned in the FIR, unless the CBI investigation clears them totally. Contracts that have been entered into or are being executed shall remain on hold,” said an official.

“If the tender process has not begun, there will be no dealing with companies mentioned in an FIR till finalisation of investigation,” he added.
 
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Indian Army may go for Tank-EX to avoid Arjun MBT


Indian Army after years of testing Arjun MBT and refusing to induct them under various grounds and even openly complaining to MOD of the so called defects it had found. Army is finding it harder to refuse to induct more than 126 tanks which it has ordered, 126 Arjun MBT production is almost complete and last batch will be supplied by mid next year and Indian army still not put any further orders for the tanks yet and If fresh orders are not placed soon production line will go dry and engineers and machinery will have to be shifted to work on T-90s Tanks which is under license local production from Russian for 1000 tanks to be inducted in next decade or so , But the constant pressure from MOD and DRDO on Indian Army to put fresh orders for the Tanks might put into lime light another in house tank development which has been going on in DRDO ,Tank-EX an in house development which DRDO carried out and the first prototype which shown to public in 2002 is a modified low silhouette chassis of in-service T-72 tank and a re-engineered Arjun MBT turret. Two Tank-EX Prototype have been build by DRDO and have been given to Army for trials, Tank-EX is more of a hybrid between the Arjun tank and the T-72M1, with armor and firepower characteristics used from both models. The Tank -Ex at 47 tons is heavier than the T-72M1 (41 tons) and much lighter than the Arjun MBT, which is 58.5 tons. What started off has an upgrade package for the large older T-72 tank fleet, turnout to be new different new MBT, but on 5 July 2008 Indian Army’s Director General of Mechanised Forces (DGMF) Gen. Dalip Bhardwaj rejected Tank-EX on grounds which were never made public, While Indian army has been dragging its feet over issuing fresh order of Arjun Tank. On other hand DRDO has been trying every trick in the book to get further orders, Arjun MBT has been tested and vouched by an International Tank Maker (IDF Ordnance and IMI)of its superior quality and Battlefield and combat readiness, DRDO also slated that Colombia has shown interest in buying India’s indigenous Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun. Recently Army has asked DRDO if modified chassis of T-90s can be integrated with Arjun MBT Turret or new improved Tank-EX can be build using the original design while DRDO thinks it is a tactics which army is using to further delay order for Arjun MBT and Army has been also looking for co-development of Next Russian MBT to kill Arjun Project for once it for all, Armies tactics are not have succeeded yet but round of talks are been held in MOD with army generals to clear their proposals. Who will win this battle of MBT is still to be seen, we can only hope in house R&D is not wasted and utilized in proper way whichever way it comes


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Indian Army may go for Tank-EX to avoid Arjun MBT IDRW.ORG



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