Bharat Rakshak

Nice indeed , Flanker fuselage dwarf every thing out there , they are planning to completely shut off military aircraft production at Irkut and will be moving to only manufacturing MS-21 there. I have never heard of this before. Yak-130 production was supposed to be taken somewhere else, but not Fl...

why they dont use that kind of round. Is there any reason? I think we are going to now with Arjun right? A few decades ago, HESH was quite flexible. It could be used against bunkers but also vehicles, even against tanks. British Army appreciated this. However, as tanks began to mount composite armo...

what made the NATO tank designers shift from 105mm to 120mm? Heavier protection in T-64/72/80, especially T-64/80 in the eyes of NATO officials. what advantage does a 120mm give? More power. the muzzle velocity of a next-gen 105mm could have been made same as the eventual 120mm. Probably, but 120mm...

Only contradicting rumors. In general, the long rod APFSDS are developed, but needed an autoloader upgrade, while the last batches of T-90A are still without. As you said information is hard to find. Latest I heard was that several rounds were being developed, some fitted autoloader and others did ...

The Al-Khalid & Chinese tanks use a 1200 hp engine exactly for this reason. Better power to weight ratio keeping hot and high operations in mind. No, they use it because its supplied by Ukraine, who helped in the design process and had the engine in production. 6TD is designed for T-64/80 and w...

yet another deficiency.... Army wants new thermal imager based panoramic commander's night vision sight for T-90 tanks This intepretation is completely wrong. Commander cannot complain about his thermal sight simply because T-90 nor Arjun has one available for him, as he will look through the gunne...

Any idea as to how many T72s have been converted to the T72-M1 Ajeya standard?

What are the characteristics of this upgrade?

license production was intentionally kept out of that list. The original message referred to countries that made their own guns, thus it would apply. South Korean K2 gun is based on a 120mm L55 but not license production. Everything the German gun can do, Gandiva can (at least on paper) Its not onl...

We already have a phenomenal gun in the Arjun... one of only two rifled guns in use... developing a modern tank gun is something that neither US or isreal have done, both going for the German gun... so be proud of what we've achieved. UK is thinking about mounting Rheinmetall 120mm smoothbore in th...

I believe the country could be Ecuador, maybe to add to it's fleet of 25 Leopard-1 tanks and retire it's very old fleet of the French AMX-13. It is unlikely that Ecuador or Peru can afford a tank like Arjun, which is only being inducted now and has a number of foreign components that raise price. T...

If thats true it could be Peru, they are evaluating a replacement for T-55. One candidate is PT-91.

Igorr The conclusion: the shorten burrel with 5.56/5.45 mm is bad idea. I should never go to fight with shorten barrel, low caliber weapon. You need at least 7.62 mm to be sure for your shorten barrel weapon effectiveness. I can offer 7.62x39 mm AK-104 for you. It's exellent weapon. Apropos, the US ...