In recent years, with the highly developed international level of science and technology, countries have increasingly paid attention to the development of their own military forces. Among them, main battle tanks have received more and more attention from various countries due to their excellent performance on the battlefield. Some military powers have invested huge energy and financial resources to develop advanced main battle tanks. It is reported that India is currently improving their domestically produced main battle tanks and has achieved success.
On November 14, according to the Indian ANI news website, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on board an improved domestically-made "Arjun" tank when inspecting the troops.
"Arjun" tank
It is understood that India initially decided to develop this "Arjun" tank in 1973. It once claimed that the "Arjun" tank was one of the three most advanced tanks in the world. The first grant was allocated. It is 155 million rupees and is expected to enter service in 1990. However, due to various reasons such as India's technological level and manufacturing capacity, the development plan for this tank has been overdue. In the end, after more than 20 years of research and development for this tank in India, the development cost was 20 times higher than the first allocation. After Rs 2.920 billion, it was finally successfully developed.
"Arjun" tank
The Indian Army said that according to their tests, this tank sample has the driver's head when the turret rotates when the driver opens the window; when the gun is in the front direction, the driver cannot get in and out of the cockpit; It takes 15 seconds to load a ready-to-launch projectile, and it takes longer to load a non-launched projectile; the artillery must be adjusted to a certain elevation angle when loading the projectile, otherwise the projectile cannot be loaded; the prototype turret structure is unreasonable and easy to jam; the tank is too heavy to seriously affect The mobility of tanks has caused difficulties in railway transportation and exceeded bridge safety standards, which made them very dissatisfied.
"Arjun" tank
In recent years, India finally noticed how backward their tank is, so the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) improved this tank. At the beginning of 2019, India said that this tank has 19 "major improvements", including the installation of explosive reactive armor, thermal imaging sights, navigation systems, etc. The improved "Aqiong" tank weighs 68 tons in combat! These "significant improvements" mentioned by India are originally functions of main battle tanks, and are functions of every tank currently in service. That is to say, India, which has always been in a position of extremely backward technological level, but always thinks that it is very powerful, stupidly thinks that other countries are similar to them, will think these things are "significant improvements."
After the completion of these transformations, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of India is very confident in this tank. They threatened to get an order for 118 MK1A version "Arjun" tanks soon, which is currently the most advanced. The "Arjun" tank model. And when Prime Minister Modi was riding this tank, he said triumphantly: “We are really proud to see Prime Minister Modi riding on the'Arjun' tank. We hope that the (Indian) Army can immediately order the other two regiments. 'Arjun' MK1A tank". Although
had long expected confidence in India, it still makes people feel the urge to laugh. Here I will no longer evaluate other aspects of this tank, only talk about the weight of this tank. Although the
heavy main battle tank has certain weight requirements and needs to be loaded with many advanced systems, the heavier the better. On the contrary, the weight of this tank needs to be kept within a certain range, because if it is too heavy, it may be the same as the sample of this tank, which will affect the maneuverability of the tank and cause railway transportation difficulties and exceed the bridge safety standards.
To sum up, the so-called improvement of this tank may just be the Indian R&D organization, without considering other factors, adding many systems purchased from abroad at will. Then they eagerly announced to the world that their tanks have been transformed and the Army will buy them soon! (Maple Leaf)
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