Arjun-II MBT development l Updates & discussion.

[Dazzler]

300 mm in 2km is no good.Better import Israeli AFSPDS.

Actually it depends upon the angle of impact. For e.g. a sabot penetrating 300mm at 60 ° is by no means bad but considering the thick frontal armour of modern mbts around the world, its not even enough. It would barely penetrate the ERA that too till the explosion occurs.

 

[The_Sidewinder]

Actually it depends upon the angle of impact. For e.g. a sabot penetrating 300mm at 60 ° is by no means bad but considering the thick frontal armour of modern mbts around the world, its not even enough. It would barely penetrate the ERA that too till the explosion occurs.

Yeah 300 mm penatration is no good for todays head on engagement. Tank has to.manuver constantly to take advantage of weak sideon armour of enemy MBTs which may not be possible in most scenarios.

 

[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Defence
04-August, 2015 17:16 IST
Fate of DRDO Developed Arjun Tank

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully completed project for development of Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun in March 1995, with delivery of 12 Prototypes and 15 Pre Production Series (PPS) tanks.

Initial sanctioned cost of the project was Rs.15.50 Crore in 1974, which was revised to Rs.56.55 Crore in 1980. A realistic estimate could be done in 1987 to Rs.280.80 Crore and accordingly DRDO obtained a sanction based on firmed up General Staff Qualitative Requirement (GSQR-467) and revised scope of the project. Finally, the project was completed in March 1995 with the total revised cost of Rs.305.60 Crore.

Army has floated Request for Indent (RFI) for ‘Future Ready Combat Vehicle (FRCV)’ for a design competition to identify innovative design options which will form the base for a combat vehicle platform. It is also planned to subsequently develop other need-based variants on this platform, if found suitable.

These platforms are to meet the futuristic requirements of the Services beyond 2027 and are not in conflict with the current MBT Arjun Programme and its future orders.

Two Armoured Regiments of MBT Arjun Mk-I have been raised and operationalised. Out of total indented quantity of 124 Nos., 122 MBT Arjun Mk-I have been produced and inducted into Army. Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for quantity 118 Nos. For MBT Arjun Mk-II is in place

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri Raj Babbar and Shri Vijay Jawaharlal Darda in Rajya Sabha today.

 

[Hindustani78]

Army for modular design concept for tanks

New Delhi: August 11, 2015, DHNS

Indian Army will not drop its modular design concept for the next generation main battle tanks, notwithstanding the criticism from the industry.

The modular design, claims the Army, would allow subsequent development of 10 different variants of the tanks including light weight tanks, armoured recovery vehicles and trawls among others.

The Directorate-General of Mechanised Forces recently issued a request for information to the tank designers from all over the world to participate in designing the future ready combat vehicle that seeks to replace the ageing T-72 fleet.

Though the concept received criticism within the industry, the army defended the proposal. “The FRCV will be a combat vehicle platform which will form the base for developing a family of vehicles,” said a statement issued by the Army.

The RFI does not give out the detailed parameters of the FRCV. These will be given to the agencies shortlisted for the design competition. The brief description of the FRCV, given out as part of the RFI, is only to give a very rough idea of what the product is likely to be, it adds.

Indian Army began inducting the Russian origin T-72 tanks in the late 1970s. Since most of these tanks don’t have night vision and is based on outdated technology, a search is on for advanced main battle tanks as DRDO’s Arjun is not up to the mark.

The Indian Army currently relies on the modern T-90 tanks that came from Russia in the 1990s. The FRCV for a design competition to identify innovative design options, which will form the base for a combat vehicle platform. It is planned to subsequently develop other need-based variants on this platform, if found suitable.

“These platforms are to meet the futuristic requirements of the services beyond 2027 and are not in conflict with the current MBT Arjun Programme and its future orders,” Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in the Parliament.

Two armoured regiments of MBT Arjun Mk-I have been raised and operationalised. Out of total indented quantity of 124 Arjun Mk-I tanks, as many as 122 indigenous tanks have been produced and inducted into Army. However, these tanks are used mostly in the desert regions as the terrain in Punjab and Jammu are not suitable for using the Arjuns in an operational role.
The defence ministry has also agreed to procure 118 Arjun Mk-II, when it is finally ready.
DH News Service

 

[Water Car Engineer]

LASTEC has designed and developed a laser warning and countermeasure system for Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFVs). A LWS is capable of handling multiple type of laser threats and has an operational range of more than 6 km for laser designator type of laser threat. After detecting the laser threat along with its direction, it also has the capability to generate trigger signal to activate the grenade launcher for firing of smoke grenade in the direction of laser threat to obscure the platform under threat. Technology of the LWS has been transferred to BEL, Pune.

The laser warning sensors detects the laser radiation processes, determine the PRF and edge matching signals. It comprises of opto-electronic front end, signal processing and conditioning, embedded module for PRF decoding, and edge matching signal.

The master controller receive inputs from multiple laser warning sensors, processes the information and feeds the desired commands to the decoy laser. The master controller comprises of hardware and software module to interface with the laser sensor units and the decoy laser.

Decoy laser is a high energy laser source that takes command from laser warning system and generate a pulsed laser radiation synchronised with the PRF generated by the laser warning system. It is used to illuminate a dummy target to misguide the laser guided bomb on to the dummy target.


A homemade LWS has been developed. The APS is still under development.


Current Arjun Mark 2 uses an Israeli origin system.

 

[masud]

after seeing the DRDO,S capability not only arjun but also others home made products, i would like to see RUSSIAN T-14 ARMAT replacing the old t-72 (vishma).

I WOULD LOVE TO CALL THIS " KARNA "..................

 

[Echo_419]

after seeing the DRDO,S capability not only arjun but also others home made products, i would like to see RUSSIAN T-14 ARMAT replacing the old t-72 (vishma).

I WOULD LOVE TO CALL THIS " KARNA "..................

Better to invest in Arjun

 

[masud]

Better to invest in Arjun

Designed March 1974–present

 

[Nilgiri]

after seeing the DRDO,S capability not only arjun but also others home made products, i would like to see RUSSIAN T-14 ARMAT replacing the old t-72 (vishma).

I WOULD LOVE TO CALL THIS " KARNA "..................

Better to call it Karma

 

[Maarkhoor]

Now seriously its time for Indian to re-think about Arjun and Tejas both failed projects even after thirty + years DRDO failed to deliver near perfect production its better to aquire off the shlef itmes instead of loosing time and money just to save the name of DRDO.

 

[Echo_419]

Designed March 1974–present

I still insist that we should invest in our domestic industry & focus on developing world class Industry.if we are to become a great power once again we need to start investing in our domestic Industry

Now seriously its time for Indian to re-think about Arjun and Tejas both failed projects even after thirty + years DRDO failed to deliver near perfect production its better to aquire off the shlef itmes instead of loosing time and money just to save the name of DRDO.

You should refrain from commenting on matters which you know nothing off

 

[Maarkhoor]

I still insist that we should invest in our domestic industry & focus on developing world class Industry.if we are to become a great power once again we need to start investing in our domestic Industry



You should refrain from commenting on matters which you know nothing off

I know many thing and i know certainly Tejas and Arjun are failed projects. Truth is bitter.

 

[Beta-Fighter]

I know many thing and i know certainly Tejas and Arjun are failed projects. Truth is bitter.

thanks for letting us know , ... now have good sleeping thinking that India inducting failed ones in the army and AF.

BTW, did you know Indian recoilless gun can blow up pak tanks, lol it happened 65...

 

[Argon Prime]

thanks for letting us know , ... now have good sleeping thinking that India inducting failed ones in the army and AF.

BTW, did you know Indian recoilless gun can blow up pak tanks, lol it happened 65...

Only if one could out maneuver those tanks and get to their flanks,then the rcl guns should not have much trouble,making quick work of them tanks,cause most Pakistani tanks have got little to no side armor protection.But if you go head on against those beasts,then you would become road kill.

 

[Hindustani78]

CVRDE Director P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist - The Economic Times

By PTI | 19 Sep, 2015, 03.14PM IST

CHENNAI: Director of Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment, Avadi, P Sivakumar has been elevated as "Distinguished Scientist" with immediate effect by the Defence Ministry in recognition to his services.

"Sivakumar has been promoted as Distinguished Scientist in recognition of his dedication and diligence in self-reliance effort for defence combat vehicle systems and sub-systems", an official release said.

He was involved in development of various products, including the Arjun MBT Mark-II, Carrier Command Post Tracked Vehicle, unmanned ground vehicles.

Sivakumar was also a fellow of National Academy of Engineering, the release said.