Arjun Main Battle Tank (MBT)

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Honestly, that climbing wall looks easy - I have climbed climbing walls 10 times more difficult that this one.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

 

[black eagle]

My 1000th post....:clap::thumb:

 

[black eagle]

Arjun set for formal induction into Army

The indigenously-built Arjun tank will be formally inducted into 75 Armoured Regiment on Saturday. A programme will be held where the Arjun tank will replace Tank-55. South Zone's General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lt General S.K.Singh will be chief guest. The delays and failures in its development from 1990 to 2000 prompted the Indian Army to order vast number of T-90 tanks from Russia to meet the defence needs.

The tank comes with a 120 mm main rifled gun with indigenously developed APFSDS ammunition, a 7.62 mm co-axial machine gun, and a 12.7 mm machine gun. It is powered by a single MTU multi-fuel diesel engine rated at 1,400 hp, and can achieve a maximum speed of 70 km/hr (43 mph) and a cross-country speed of 40 km/h (25 mph). It has a four-man crew: commander, gunner, loader and driver.

Automatic fire detection and suppression, and NBC protection systems are provided. All-round anti-tank warhead protection by the newly developed Kanchan armour is claimed to be much higher than available in present third generation tanks.

Earlier, in March 2010, the Arjun was pitted against the T-90 in comparative trials and performed well. Subsequently, the Army placed an order for an additional 124 tanks on May 17, 2010.

I just wonder how many times will this tank get "formally inducted" into the army.....

 

[SHASH2K2]

My 1000th post....:clap::thumb:

congratulations . Hope to see more from you . Wish you have 5K posts very soon.

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

Arjun Tank inducted into 75 armoured regiment

JAISALMER: The indigenous Arjun tank was today formally inducted into the 75 Armoured Regiment at a ceremony here, over 37 years after the project was commissioned by the government.

"Lieutenant General A K Singh, general officer commanding in chief (GOC-in-C) of the southern command, inducted the tank. The ceremony also marked the passage of T 55 tanks from the inventory after forty years of reliable service," a defence spokesperson said.

He said that 45 Arjun tanks were inducted. The event also marked the 39th Raising day of the regiment, in which over 1000 retired officers and jawans took part.

75 Armoured Regiment is the only Indian armoured regiment to be raised on foreign soil during the 1971 Indo-Pak war at Gadra road (now in Pakistan)on 12 March 1972, he added.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Arjun-Tank-inducted-into-75-armoured-regiment/articleshow/7686973.cms

 

[sayareakd]

that is good news........... been waiting for this news for long time.

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

KUNAL BHAI this pics of ARJUN r for u...........

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

Images: The German-MTU Power-Pack of MBT Arjun !

 

[bengalraider]

@ sesha - hate to burst your bubble there mate! but that tank is not the Arjun MK2 . that is the old Arjun they always display during DEFEXPO at pragati maidan!

 

[sesha_maruthi27]

@ sesha - hate to burst your bubble there mate! but that tank is not the Arjun MK2 . that is the old Arjun they always display during DEFEXPO at pragati maidan!

Yaa thank u for telling me and I have changed the post from MK-II to ARJUN. Sorry for typing it as MK-II.

 

[amitkriit]

Who is this girl? Does she work with the armed forces?

 

[chex3009]

Who is this girl? Does she work with the armed forces?

She is Suman Sharma, writes defence stuff for DNA and and defence blog of her can be followed at http://chhindits.blogspot.com

 

[JBH22]

Who is this girl? Does she work with the armed forces?

Suman Sharma and i find most of her article crap