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The Mk2 prototype is 67.5 tonnes with a mine trawl. The plan is to bring it down to 62.5 tonnes before production starts. Anyway, the program is moot in line of what the Army needs and that's already been established with the start of the FMBT program. The future will be a 50 tonne FMBT...

PA too. :P

Saraswat's words are not clear enough to indicate if he was referring to a heavier tank to a lighter tank as a whole or was he comparing the Arjun Mk2 to the latest T-90MS. We know that Arjun is as mobile as the T-90 in deserts. However there is no scope for improvement on Arjun without a new...

During war, there are weapons which work and weapons which won't work. There are somethings the user itself wouldn't want to work with because there are greater chances such systems would fall into the latter category. It won't be DRDO Chief's head which will roll for failure in a war, it...

Not just for bridges. Saraswat was talking about how the greater weight of the Arjun affects its mobility compared to the lighter tanks the IA uses.

DRDO has decided to accept the Army's position that the Arjun is unnecessarily heavy and they need a lighter tank instead.

Offered that advice months ago.

Or even the country.

Things are still not clear with regards to FMBT. There is a chance, the Arjun Mk3 would be the FMBT. But DRDO chief recently said the FMBT will weigh 50 tonnes. That would make it a new tank by itself. You can say this has more credibility than Ajai Shukla's report. FMBT to focus on...

Hmm, not much news about the Mk2. Must be the trials delaying news.

This is confusing. Putin did not cancel Armata UCP program. It is going as scheduled and is perhaps already into construction phase. India's FMBT program is different and according to Ajai Shukla's article, it won't be taking off. An Arjun Mk3/Mk4 will definitely be more successful than a...

Such a thing we will never know for at least another 20 years as long as somebody does not release a book from within the design bureau. Only T-90 from what we know. Yes, but that counts for nothing because we won't have information in the civilian domain regarding it. Another...

I suppose, but I was pointing out what stands today.

It only means the author made a mistake with his English. Arjun does not have a deep water snorkeling capability and it is most probably not a requirement either. Arjun has only demonstrated medium water fording capability.

Anybody would prefer not to use fording or snorkeling during war. Snorkeling is like the last option, in a no other choice situation.

Fording is done in 1.4m or 4.5 feet of water, for tanks. This is fording, Snorkeling, done in 15 feet of water or 5m. They are both entirely different procedures. In snorkeling the tank is fully submerged in water with only the air pipes sticking out. Arjun has never demonstrated snorkeling.

He said something about Indian Army demonstrating Arjun's ability to be fully submerged in 6 feet of water. Not the exact words..

Then that's going to be a mighty small pond if 2 feet of water displaced a weight of 60 tons. I would rather go around it. :P Anyway, he is perpetually confused. He confused the terms fording at 6 feet and deep water snorkeling at 15 feet. The latter does not exist on the Arjun.

How can an 8 feet high tank be "fully submerged" in 6 feet deep water? Everything says defies physics or other natural laws.

Titanium has very good heat dissipation capability. Apart from that Boron Carbide is a very old composite. My friend made some and I had these composites at home for quite sometime. I think every Tom, Dick and Harry with an aeronautics degree knows about it. Very good at breaking walnuts and...