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In Arjuns case larger mantel has allowed them to add more armour behind it. Which is another way of solving the week zone issue. Offcourse you wont agree but thats not left to you.

The Scientists in the Discovery Documentary say the Arjun is protected in a 60deg frontal arc.

Oops, yup my bad got it confused with the new Leopard.

No, That pic inside the link is a German tank. The Arjun Mk-2 is already out and it does not look like that. The drawing is Arjun Mk-1, what else could it be??? :confused:

Evolution through trial and error is the only way there is and no other way, we cant create anything out of nothing. So Arjun is the something we need and evolution does not mean the basic platform has to be the same, the whole platform can be redesigned from what scientists learn from the older...

Amazing..

Anyway haven't read your view of Arjun Mk-2 yet, dare i ask whats your POV of it?

Who would think of it? The people who have the money and the goal will have to think ways of doing stuff new, that is not the surprise. India being very poor in the past has always some how caught up right from nuclear weapons to space technology. Arjun Mk1 is not an excellent tank but it is a...

Its not just Money, best infrastructure, best brains from all over the world and years and years of data along with an excellent R&D ancillary units. That is exactly why it is wrong to set US as an standard for anything because they will always be way way ahead of even europe for example no...

I read this some time back during General V.P.Maliks tenure they removed the AC units in tanks. I remember reading this quite some time back in BR may be in 1999?

APU reduces stealth. It shows up in thermal and also sound can be isolated.

It still works out cheaper than a APU, running an APU dispenses thermal signature in the exhaust as well. Trees are very scanty in a desert terrain as well and so not much foliage for cover. Tanks do hide behind camo but in war situations or during exercise a tank wont be hideing for long...

Auxiliary power unit is just a big battery with another smaller engine and it does not run it for hours on end and takes up more resources. Tanks spend a very long time parked in the desert during combat or exercise where the temperature can climb up to 50 degs inside a tank.

To run the AC they should run the engine even on idle which would consume a lot of fuel, So it will end up being more bad than good, most of the tanks service it will be parked some where in the desert and no one can afford to run the engine during that time, unless your the yanks invading an...

oma Its the same as saying what if the automatic machine gun gets jammed compared to the bolt action rifle. In the end the machine has farless provability of failure.

Anyone saw this old documentary, nice to see the Arjun on it.

Wrong as usual, whats new. :rolleyes: There is probably enough slope in the armor cavity from the angle you drew. That is more than a 60 deg angles and that angle the armor will be very thick for incomeing rounds. Also in case of war there is room for improvement in the turret, the tool boxes...

Didnt i already prove your comparison with that Chinese tank was biased and wrong? Either way you bring in great points, unless i really talk with a tank designer in HVF i would not know why many tanks around the world face similar design flaws.