What does this even mean?Sanku wrote:
Also the T 90 line is a ready line from Russia
Saar this is the current scenario: Mk2 (will be once it is finalised) > Mk1 > T90 > = T72 > T55
The fact that DRDO / IA 'agree' that a move to Mk2 is required (of course it is - that is how technology augmentation works) means little to the existing connundrum. IA (and you) seem to be conspicuously silent on the fact that Mk1 has been superior to T-90 and yet we are wasting precious resources inducting 1650 of the T90s and only asking for 124 of the Mk1s.
Of course the 'logic' of waiting for a 'better' tank in the future can be extended to a Mk3 or a Mk4 or a Mk(n) version sometime in the 'future'. why should Mk2 be the 'gold standard' that should be inducted by the IA? Let us continue to induct T-90s and keep asking DRDO for better and better future variants. Afterall T90 comes with a 'ready line from Russia' and they have a history of R&D in tank building.