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I agree GFP only looks at numbers and i was not talking of power here, i was only wonder how we had so many and even more than US!! That was the only surprise but since you bring in the argument of nations vs nation their over all catogrisiation in their home page puts India at number 4 and that is not because of numbers but takeing into account all the other factors.You should not forget the technical aspect. Not all Indian tanks are T-90s or Arjuns (and even they aren't the best). Just a short time ago India has bought new ammunition for their T-72s and T-90s from Russia.
Current Russian export APFSDS has a total length below 60 cm (probably 57 cm) and a muzzle velocity of ~1,700 m/s... how do you compare this to modern ammunition from France, Germany and the U.S.?
Germany has APFSDS with a total length of 75 cm and a muzzle velocity of 1,750 m/s, French tanks use 69 cm long APFSDS with a muzzle velocity of 1,790 m/s and the U.S. Army has 89 cm long APFSDS with a muzzle velocity of only 1,555 m/s. The Arjun has an APFSDS with a length of only 48-49 cm and a muzzle velocity of only 1,650 m/s...
In WW2 better armour and ammunition were the reasons why some heavy tank units exceeded a 10:1 kill-death-ratio in Russia.
Do you think that the potency of the armies can easily be compared on sole number with already such huge differences in ammunition technology only?
India, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, North Korea etc. are on the top places, even though they only have a small number of up-to-date weapon systems (or sometimes even not a single one), but because they have much.
Indian anti-tank weapons include 84 mm and 106 mm recoilless weapons with single shaped charge warhead (penetration ~400 mm) and RPG-7s with single charge warhead (penetration ~300 mm)... is this comparable to the PzF-3IT (penetration ~900 mm + ERA) or the ERYX missile (penetration ~900 mm + ERA)? I doubt so.
To compare India with North Korea or Egypt is silly, they have no technology and are stagnant while India is growing rapidly and evolving. India has 5000MBTs and 1000 of them are new T-90s and will have new Arjuns variants and 4000 T-72s will be upgraded with modern warfare suits compared to just 420 from France or UK even with a 3 hit probability they can not make it. This cant be put in the game box as North Korea or Egypt whose stuff are Vintage and have not been upgraded.
As for rounds even then the numbers are totally against UK or France and UK till recently had rifiled bores so bring in American rounds is not fare against UK or France. Russian HE rounds are adapted for armor piercing and in a short battle 5000 tanks will finish 450 tanks any day. Your argument is vain in this issue and even with Air support IAF has 200 new Su-30MKIs, 60 upgraded Mig-29upg, 55 Mirage-2000 with 400 more Soviet models with Israeli radars on them for shear number dominance and in the coming years will have 200 Rafale and 200 LCA.
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