IAF did eventually accept the Tejas and we are in for large scale deployments of the same, but Army is proving to be especially difficult.
And this obstinacy is going to cost us the race wrt to MBTs.
It must be the 3 man crew vs the 4 man crew thing that I think is why IA is treating Arjun like the unwanted step child.
Arjun should have been named Karna instead.
And as if on cue the army released the FRCV requirements(which fit T-14s down to a tee) after the T-14s were paraded around enough, even though the FMBT was in sort of a hiatus up until that point.
We are always tough on DRDO and what have you, but this slight was like if the IA spat on DRDO's face in broad daylight.
You can't help but feel sorry for our DPSUs and us the taxpayers.
How are we going to recoup our investment, time and faith in our indigenous capacity?
There has to be a far sighted approach to Arjun, we cannot just depend on the benevolence of the Russians, as they are proving to be especially exploitative in almost all areas.
IA should just stop dragging its feet, follow the Merkava model and induct Arjuns and continously improve it with iterations of Mk 1s, 2s and 3s.