Arjun And Bhishma In Action

[5ever]

^ Should be made into a rule on these forums.

 

[ApparentRaceTraitor]

Definitely, all forums must have a grammar nazi mod.

 

[Zabaniyah]

1. Abram: Its a series of Tank, There are 5 major variant. It is tried and tested platform. It was told that during evaluation in Pakistan, it couldn't hit the bulls eye. But that was 80's, Now it is 2011. Things have changed a lot between then and now.

They rejected it because it was way too heavy. The M1 Abrams was a war in a can and still is. Also, that powerful gas turbine engine is one serious gas guzzler

Personally, I'd prefer the M1's half brother, the Leopard 2

But then, success depends on the crew. A combination of the appropriate tank, weapons, features, ammo and along with a good tank crew can make a huge difference. The Arab-Israeli wars and the Gulf War are just some of the examples.

Doesn't matter too much if one's using a T-90 or an M1.

 

[Roybot]

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[pari.mehta]

Livefist

zOMG DIGI CAM !!!!!

I will be posting longer on the Arjun, but I know a lot of you wanted to know what they looked like in deployment. (Note the large pixellated digi-camo). For now, let me tell you what 21 Corps commander Lt Gen Sanjiv Langer said when I asked him if the regiment under his formation was happy with the Arjun: "It is not our job to be happy. We have objectives, and we have to make do. Nothing is everything you want it to be. I can say that the Arjun has matured. It has gone beyond the point of being in incessant trials. It is inducted and operational now, as you saw in the exercise. But what we are really waiting for is the Arjun Mk.2."

Here's the sobering point though: this week, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 1971 war. It was a year after this war that the Arjun project began -- started specifically to give India a home-built battle tank it could manufacture in large numbers so that there would never again be a deficit of armour. With 124 Arjuns with the Army, and another 124 of the Mk.2 in the pipeline, we're talking a total of 248 tanks -- embarrassingly less than the intended figure of at least 2,000 that had initially been hoped for. That's rough going. Let's hope the Mk.2 is everything the Arjun was not. And more.