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80% foreign components? Please back this claim

After Choppergate, nothing seems impossible

Oh no Sir. Arjun was being rejected by vested interests and not because it was not a good system. The DRDO stood up to that and forced a face off and proved its worth against the T90. If india has to move on the path of locally produced weapons systems, all round adaptation is required.

Not be railway system but the carriages. Better bridge network. Making new railway carriages is not going to be a daunting task. If India has to look to indegenize, then every system has to adapt to this effort. Otherwise we will be stuck in the vicious cycle of imports. Arjun has...

There is nothing that can't be worked with. Logistics can be developed/managed

It's for the Punjab region only where they said the tank will not be suitable for the bridges. Solution is also given for that in the form of iron bridges made by DRDO

A technical thread should remain just that. No name calling, no nationality bashing and those with lesser knowledge, should cut out jingoism and watch the ones more knowledgeable slug it out. It helps increasing knowledge :D

For me what matters at the end of the day is not to have reported posts for use of profanity and personal attacks. So make sure that does not happen. Otherwise, p2p is entitled to his opinion. He is a "STAR MEMBER" and well respected by both critics as well as fans. I dont want to see reported...

Indian engine and transmission? That is a major breakthrough. But then it would also mean fresh round of tests to be accepted by the IA.

Can't we have 125mm gun on it?? The thing that changes is from tracked movement to a cushioned. I think it can be armored, I think in the plains a hovercraft would provide good speed too as well as move over water bodies without having to wait for any bridge making and slowing movement down.

Kunal yes we have our engineers and good bridge making capability for armour movement but we are talking about crossing canals etc at a fair clip and toying with the idea of how useful a hovercraft would be.

Kunal, but what about the canals that they use as defence? If India was to take decision to split pak in half in any future war (not considering other factors like nuke threshold of pak) then something like a hovercraft would be a good thing. The soviets built massive hovercrafts with guided...

Pretty good idea. To take it further I wonder if there is a hovertank as such already in existence and if not has anyone toyed with the idea?

Great news for DRDO. Congrats to them. Looks like finally the Arjun will finally get the credit it deserved. But just putting in my conspiracy theory in, it may also be part of a plan to put pressure on Russia to transfer key techs on the T-90 which they are yet to part with. So if they want...

if true, it could turn out to be a great thing for DRDO.

Tell me something. The Challenger also has a riflebore and is considered a good tank. So why the hole noise about smoothbore vs riflebore?

Welcome e Zraver and Texasjohn. A I think the DRDO is moving over to smoothbore rifle for the Arjun.