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    TATA’s Kestral 8×8 Armored Fighting Vehicle to be tested by Indian Army

    5000 is a huge number as far as IA is concerned. The number of total tracked IFVs in service are nearly 1800, which includes every variant available right now. FICV project was expected to be ~2600 units, both tracked and wheeled including their variants. Let me explain with an analogy, not the...
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    TATA’s Kestral 8×8 Armored Fighting Vehicle to be tested by Indian Army

    Could be as there are other applications for Kestrel as jackprince stated but replacing BMP-2 is probably not one of them. Indian mech forces right now are a threat based force and expansion is only viable if you are moving from threat based to capability based force levels, something I don't...
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    TATA’s Kestral 8×8 Armored Fighting Vehicle to be tested by Indian Army

    That was a very well written article. It had all the info you would have spent hours searching for. But it was about mostly American plans and logistics and has almost nothing for India.
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    TATA’s Kestral 8×8 Armored Fighting Vehicle to be tested by Indian Army

    @Neeraj Mathur ,@Immanuel , @jackprince Current strength of AIFV and APC in IA. AIFV : BMP-1 = 350+ BMP-2K = 125+ (362 more on order) BMP-2 = 980+ (~1500 including all variants in 2015) APC : OT 64/62 = 157 Recce: BRDM = 110
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    TATA’s Kestral 8×8 Armored Fighting Vehicle to be tested by Indian Army

    5000 How did you came up with this figure and why would IA sacrifice the mobility of tracks for wheels? @jackprince , there are not that many IFV or APCs in IA.
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    TATA’s Kestral 8×8 Armored Fighting Vehicle to be tested by Indian Army

    That sounds like a very expensive and unnecessary proposition. Mechanization and motorization levels of IA are at a optimum level right now.
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