The Ladakh region is lined with plains in between the mountain ranges and the mechanised units add a major punch to the increased boots on the ground. India has already deployed tanks in Sikkim.
two regiments of T-72 tanks have been deployed — the first in 2014 and another late last year. A third regiment will be moved in soon, forming a full brigade.
We need Many more T 90 tanks ; atleast a total of 3000
By 2020, India would have a total of 2,011 T-90 tanks working out to about 40 armoured regiments. There are also six additional regiments being raised for high-altitude conditions.
The Indian Army is upgrading about
1,600 T-72 tanks with night vision devices and the rest would comprise indigenous Arjun tank which is heavier than the T-90 and has a 120mm gun which fires APFSDS, HEAT, High Explosive (HE) and High Explosive Squash Head (HESH).
118 Arjun Mk-2 tanks, The tank developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is an upgraded version of the Mk-1 variant, 119 of which have been inducted in the army.
BMP-2 is the Indian Army’s main APC which has excellent mobility and is equipped with a 30 mm cannon and fires the ‘Konkurs’ missile which has a range of 4 Km. Further it has two thermo-baric missiles which range up to 6 Km. A decision has been taken to upgrade
1,600 BMP-2s with a 350 Horse Power (HP) engine.
The Indian Army currently also has
700 BMP-1 in active service. While we have covered few of the Anti Tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs), an important ATGM in service is Milan. Milan is a wire-guided ‘Semi-Automatic Command to Line of Sight (SACLOS) missile, which means the sight of the launch unit has to be aimed at the target to guide the missile.