mr. archangel quantity has its own importance. if a war broke out than IA has also need quantity. Advancement of a tank is not sufficient. As the india is under threat from china which has quantity. I saw a program on DISCOVERY(GREATEST EVER) in which experts are saying in ww2 if nazi focus on quantity not on tech then the history change its way. At 1942 panther is the best tank in world but still it defeated from a simple tech tank m4 sherman. because americans had the quantity of this tank.
panther
power 700 hp
wt 45 ton
top speed 46 kmph
m4 sherman
power 400 hp
wt 30 ton
top speed 34 kmph
your facts are a little mixed up.
German tanks were feared for reason.
fact was their armour was was in-penetrable to all allied tanks.
Both the Panther and Tiger tanks , could stop whole allied or soviet advances.
Their downfall came form the skies , when allies and soviet fighter bombers made short work of German tank formations.
On top of that the German tanks had a added handicap of having chronic shortage on fuel , towards the end, the tanks were left on the side of the road because there simply rant out of fuel.
Also the soviet and Allied air wings , had already decimated all German Industrial capacity at this point. Factories , refiner'y and power stations all gone.This was part of the real reason for the sever shortage e of German tanks
German tanks may have been complicated and took time to build.
But they were nearly unrivalled on the battlefield , with only a few soviet tanks actually showing any real resistance. The Germans had the Panthr and the Tiger and towards the end the King Tiger. In the end it took the combined might of the soviet and allied forces , years of bombing missions which reduced Germany to near rubble , chronic shortage of supplies , and an idiot leader(had Rommel managed to overthrow Hitler we would be living in very different world, not that i would prefer said world.) to bring down Germany.
That alone will tell you of the quality of German war machines
Despite all this at the end of the war it was determined that given the limited number of German tanks , it was determined for the Germans to have wont the tank war , each German tank had to take out 24 allied tanks.
Actual Ratio was for every 1 German tank it was 21 allied tanks.
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And for crying out loud , this is not a Quality versus Quantity argument.
At the end of the day quality is supposed to cost more
and quantity cost less.
But Quality is also supposed to be superior to Quantity.
That is the basic principle behind that argument.
Arjun costs just as much , if not less then the T-90. We can actually have more Arjuns if we wanted.
On top of that the T-90 is an imported tank , we can only have as much as buy.
But we can build as many Arjuns as we can afford.
We are actually importing a tank that costs more and is as good, if not inferior to a tank that we our selves have built in India ,
all because Arjun happens to be 5 years late and T-90 is 10 tonne's lighter .
That is the reality of the Situation , there is nothing stopping us from getting more Arjuns , nothing is making the Arjun more difficult to make.
I am not saying it makes all the sense in the world , but that is the Situation, deal with it.
The Arjun production presently can produce about one Arjun Tank regiment (62 tanks) a year.
This is with one production line
One more can be set up if more ordered are given
Making it 124 tanks a year.
with a night shift you can at least double that figure.
Currently Arjun only costs slightly more than the T-90 , with more orders the price can be reduced.
