Recently, major media in India have reported that Indian Prime Minister Modi took the "Arjun" main battle tank to hype "Made in India". This is because Modi put forward the "Made in India" plan when he took office in 2014. The "Arjun" main battle tank happens to be a tank independently developed by India.
, as the developer of the "Arjun" main battle tank-the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), also expressed his heartfelt words in time: "We are really proud to see Prime Minister Modi riding on the "Arjun" tank. We hope that the (Indian) Army can immediately order 118 "Arjun" MK1A tanks."
However, the Indian Army did not make a formal response to the DRDO's call for the purchase of 118 "Arjun" tanks.
What is going on here?
Actually, for India's domestically produced "Arjun" main battle tank, whoever knows it, only the Indian Army knows this bitterness best.
So far, the Indian army has been equipped with 124 domestically-made "Arjun" tanks (MK1 version) deployed in the Jaisalmer desert area near the border between India and Pakistan. However, this tank has been criticized for many times. After many "major upgrades", it has not been attracted by the Indian Army and increased its purchases. Instead, it has turned to the purchase of Russian-made T-72 and T-90 tanks.
The "Arjun" tank, which even the Indian Army looks down upon, only shows that its design is extremely bad.
one is overweight.
Speaking of being overweight, everyone should remember the fact that Indian military vehicles collapsed a bridge on the Sino-Indian border not long ago. The Sino-Indian border is a plateau and mountainous area, and the load-bearing capacity of many bridges is extremely limited; when the Chinese Type 15 light tank was on the plateau, Indian Prime Minister Modi personally took the domestically-made "Arjun" tank, so that the Indian Army was stuck in whether to continue to purchase Dilemma. You know, Modi was riding in an improved version of the "Arjun" tank-MK1A, with a total combat weight of 68.2 tons, which is much larger than the American M1A2SEP (63.2 tons) and the German Leopard 2A6 (62.5 tons). , Is the well-deserved world number one.
In contrast, China's 99A main battle tank has a total combat weight of only 55-58 tons, and the 15-type light tank is only about 30 tons. How can
fight on the plateau with such a heavy tank? It's strange not to break down.
The second is that the engine is "hot".
Everyone only knows that the engine of the Indian "Arjun" tank is a German product, and it has a high power-1400 horsepower, but few people know the ridge behind it.
India and MTU, a subsidiary of Germany's Daimler company, reached an agreement that year. The company provided the MB 838 engine as the engine of the "Arjun" tank and made improvements according to India's needs. It stands to reason that the MB 838 is indeed a good engine. The famous Leopard 1 tank uses this engine, but the problem is that the Leopard 1 main battle tank weighs only a little over 40 tons, but the "Arjun" tank The prototype weighs nearly 60 tons, and the engine with only 830 horsepower is obviously not enough. The German engineer who couldn't stand it privately suggested that India increase money and buy a better MB 873 engine, but India who wants to save money must use 838. No way, the German engineers could only forcibly increase the 838 horsepower to 1400 horsepower. This is the MB 838 Ka-501 V10 engine used by the "Arjun" tank.
However, forcibly increasing turbocharger work intensity to increase output comes at a price-tanks require high-precision components with stronger strength and heat resistance, but India ignored this in order to save money. As a result, in hot weather, the "Arjun" tank engine frequently overheated, and its power performance was even not as good as the original 838 engine.
three is the 120 main gun or rifled gun.
In today’s era where main battle tanks are almost all smoothbore guns, the Indian “Arjun” tank uses 120mm rifled guns. This brings two troubles: First, when launching a stable armor-piercing tail piercer, the rifling gives The high-speed spin will be applied to the tail fin, greatly slowing down the speed of the projectile and weakening its armor-piercing ability. In order to solve this problem, the armor-piercing projectile of the "Arqiong" tank needs to be specially designed with a set of airtight slip rings, so that the projectile and the projectile can be rotated independently, so that when the projectile is rotated at high speed in the barrel,The bullet core does not turn so fast. This is not easy and the cost is very high. The second is that when gun-launched missiles are launched, special designs are also required based on rifled guns.
In addition to the above three points, the main problem of the Indian "Aqiong" tank is the localization. Although it is called "domestic production", it is actually assembled, and it is a universal version, such as engine, automatic transmission system, track, The heat dissipation and cooling equipment are all German goods, the main guns are British goods, the artillery-launched missiles are Israeli goods, and the vehicle-mounted large-caliber machine guns are Russian goods... Now nearly half of the parts of the "Arjun" tank can only be imported.
It is said that the composite armor is made in India. As for the specific bulletproof capability, it is said to be comparable to the depleted uranium armor of the American M1A2 tank. Your product, your product! Since the development of
in 1972, the "Arjun" tank has been in a state of modification, and it has been almost half a century since it has spent a huge amount of more than 20.7 billion U.S. dollars, far surpassing the "Glorious" fighter made in India. (US$14.8 billion in research and development expenses), it can be called the most expensive product in the history of Indian military industry.
This time, Indian Prime Minister Modi came forward and personally took the "Arjun" tank to build momentum for "Made in India". It seems that the Indian Army’s silence is useless. In the end, it can only buy 118 vehicles and once again become a fool. .
According to Indian media reports, during the Naka conflict, the Armenian army used the Indian Swathi artillery reconnaissance radar to expose a large number of problems, with continuous failures, and the actual performance did not match the Indian propaganda. It was impossible to accurately detect incoming artillery shells, and the calculated ballistic trajectory also had large errors, which caused the Armenian army to baffle fighters many times and failed to eliminate the Azerbaijani artillery positions in time. It is reported that Armenia has launched a lawsuit against the Indian Ministry of Defense, demanding compensation for Armenia’s losses in the war. You know, in March this year, the Armenian military purchased four "Schwart" artillery positioning radars from India at a price of 40 million U.S. dollars, and they were officially delivered in September, just in time for the subsequent outbreak of the Naka military conflict. Actual combat is the best way to test weapons. Originally, this was an excellent "Made in India" propaganda opportunity. I didn't expect the real Indian manufacturing to be so vulnerable.
From now on, see who dares to buy weapons made in India, except of course the Indian army!
