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From licensed assembly to joint production: India wants to produce Russian tanks T-90C

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India is interested in continuing the licensed production of Russian T-90C tanks. This came in a statement by Chief Executive of the Russian-Indian tank contract, General Director of "Uralvagonzavod" scientific industrial corporation Oleg Siyenko at the IDEX-2013 arms fair. On Monday, a Russian T-90C tank participated in a dynamic demonstration of technical equipment at the exhibition in Abu-Dhabi, and earned a lot of praise from experts.

On the basis of total characteristics, today the T-90C tank is the best tank on the international market. According to Siyenko, "there are hundreds of already manufactured tanks". This tank is produced on the base of the Russian license at a tank factory in the city of Avadi, in the state of Tamil Nadu. Today, the T-90C tank is the main striking force of the Indian army. India is interested in transition from the currently existing large-unit assembly to complete localization of production and subsequent modernization of the previously jointly manufactured machines. According to estimations of experts, in 2014-2019, India can additionally purchase about 600 new, modernized T-90C tanks and start their complete licensed production on the spot.

Today, India sticks to the same pattern at other enterprises producing various military equipment under Russian licenses. Indian Corporation "Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd" produces one of the world's best fighters Su-30 MKI under the Russian license. Today, together with India we manufacture a prospective fifth generation fighter - FGFA (Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft). It is for several years now that the Russian-Indian BrahMos joint venture, named in honor of the Russian Moscow River and the Indian Brahmaputra, produces the fastest BrahMos cruise missiles.

Meanwhile, Russian designers are working at a new tank of the fifth generation. It requires radically different engineering and technical solutions, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko says.

“This tank will be controlled remotely. This project will be the first step on the way to a fully «unmanned» weapon, to so-called combat robots, about which science fiction authors wrote last century”.


And who knows, maybe, this tank can also be created by a joint effort of Russian and Indian gunsmiths.


From licensed assembly to joint production: India wants to produce Russian tanks T-90C: Voice of Russia
 
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Jog on Russia- the Arjun MK.2 and its derivatives are more than sufficient for the IA in the future.



+ (it just depends whether the IA is looking for a MBT for the plains of THAR or a lighter (T-90 class) tank for the North and NE.
 
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Main priority is to acquire 500-800 advanced light tanks to strengthen our defenses in North East. More in the class of Polish Anders.

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good news. t 90 tanks are among the finest tanks.
 
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Jog on Russia- the Arjun MK.2 and its derivatives are more than sufficient for the IA in the future.



+ (it just depends whether the IA is looking for a MBT for the plains of THAR or a lighter (T-90 class) tank for the North and NE.
Dont know dude IA is looking for light tank around 45 ton. Mk2 I heard is again crossing close to 60 tonne. If DRDO is not successful to reduce weight i doubt IA will procure it.
 
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The IA know better than us what they want. So let them make T 90 Cs in India but I ask myself why we did not opt for the MS variant which has been offered to us during the Defense Expo last year ????
 
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The IA know better than us what they want. So let them make T 90 Cs in India but I ask myself why we did not opt for the MS variant which has been offered to us during the Defense Expo last year ????

I'm pretty sure there is some mis=reporting going on here. The current standard T-90 the IA is inducting is the T-90Sand it was reported the IA had signed a contract to retro-fit the MS package so the entire 90S fleet would be T-90MS. I don't know where "C" has come into it!
 
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I'm pretty sure there is some mis=reporting going on here. The current standard T-90 the IA is inducting is the T-90Sand it was reported the IA had signed a contract to retro-fit the MS package so the entire 90S fleet would be T-90MS. I don't know where "C" has come into it!

Ofcourse IA is going for MS version only n BTW T-90S is actually the export version of T-90A. Sometimes called T-90C (Cyrillic letter es looks like a Latin c).

hope that clears the misconception a bit...:)
 
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