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It is always a question of what we want and what we get. For example, some in Indian Army want T-14 Armata. But at max, Russia will sell downgraded export version T-14S. Similarly, Poland may want M1A2 Sepv3, but at max US will sell them something similar to M1A2T that they sold to Taiwan.

The Polish Army already has upgraded Leo2A4. It would make more sense to go for Leo2A7, for training and logistical commonality. Also, US is in the process of itself inducting M1A2 sepv3. So at maximum they will offer Poland is something similar to M1A2 T (which they are selling to Taiwan)...

It would be very interesting if Ukraine wants to sell its Kharkov factory. May be Kalyani group can purchase it and bring it to India like it did with the Norincum factory from Austria.

Tank vs Anti-tank weapons debate has been going on since WW2. Yet most major countries field tanks today. In Indian context, we do possess a large inventory of Milan, Konkurs ATGM. We are also planning to induct Spice and Nag. However, these cannot be substitute for tanks. This is due to the...

They also showed a fire support vehicle which is very similar to Stryker MGS. (lower one is the Stryker MGS).

Not Armata copy, because Armata has unmanned turret. Here crew can be seen sticking out of the turret hatches. It anything, the frontal profile seems to be heavily inspired by Abrams. However, the turret seems small in length compared to abrams. Also has side mounted ATGM launchers, which is not...

No need for renewed discussion. All these related discussion have already been done on DFI on a separate thread, whose link is given as: https://defenceforumindia.com/threads/tank-guns-and-ammunition.39363/

No matter how many times you repeat the same thing, you are wrong. Rifled guns were the primary tank gun canon for a long time, until the smoothbore gun first came in the 60s. Also, rifled guns can fire accurately for a large distance in a relatively flatter trajectory, since the the shell is...

At least read my full post, if you intend to reply to it. I did talk about smoothbore gun and its advantages against rifled gun w.r.t firing APFSDS round. This is not advertised by me . This is widely advertised by the British themselves since GW1. Anything in war can be attributed to luck...

He is right. Rifled guns are inherently more accurate than smoothbore guns and can also hit longer ranges. Till date the longest tank kill is attributed to Challenger 1 of UK, which scored a 5 km+ kill on a Iraqi T-72 during Gulf War 1. However, modern smoothbore guns in combination with...

They can have any arrangement of the reactive elements and metal plates in their ERA. That depends on the user requirement. IF IA wants 10 layer ERA, with such arrangement. DRDO can come up with it. We already have the reactive elements (line charges) as well as HHS to form the metal layer. this...

South Korea has offered Poland a version of their MBT called K-2PL, with offer of TOT. This can be of interest to us, since they are also offering K-2 to India under FRCV program (though no one knows its current status or future). Also the armour layout is interesting considering our own GNMBT...

It seems from the image of the desert camo tank, that the chassis is modified from a ICV. They have removed the passenger compartment altogether, placed the engine in the rear. The overall chassis length reduced as a process and it resembles a tank. But it is definitely a modified ICV chassis...

Chinese made a similar light tank Type 15 or VT-5 armed with a 105 mm gun. Weight is around 33-36 tons. This is designed as a tank from the begining rather than an ICV hull mated with a modified tank turret like the GDLS MPF. Hence, it is more compact with likely better frontal protection, but...

for people expressing doubts regarding russian armour technology: Jane's International Defence Review 7/2007, pg. 15: "IMPENETRABLE RUSSIAN TANK ARMOUR STANDS UP TO EXAMINATION" By Richard M. Ogorkiewicz Claims by NATO testers in the 1990s that the armour of Soviet Cold War tanks was...

a very old article regarding german tank during ww2 The development of the Panther main battle tank June 1941: The German invasion of the Soviet Union ("Operation Barbarossa"). The initial phase of the war was determined by significant military successes of the Wehrmacht. At that time the...

Merkava 4 has a peculiar turret design.Mayebe someone here can give it's approx armour protection and also it's advantages/disadvantages compared to a coventional turret design like leoa6,m1a2,challenger2 and arjun mbt.

Re: Arjun Main Battle Tank (MBT) What i said was as soon as army demands a smoothbore gun drdo can manufacture one and there are no technological barriers to that.Also the whole point of developing arjun mbt was to acheive self reliance in the field of tank production which includes...

Re: Arjun Main Battle Tank (MBT) you are full of bs as i have read many of your posts and there is zero amount of worthwhile information in it as most of it is not backed by credible sources.also i don't know which part you don't agree.regarding sagger atgm information can be obtained from...