I hope you know that we make 96% of T-90 in house.bharathp wrote:my 2 cents -
…. if it was ahome grown machine, we would have the in house skills to make improvements without having to pay an arm and a leg and keep the 2000 strong force on stand by while we run around trying to get it fixed by OEM
that said, our own ammo production doesnt really inspire much confidence.
I really hope every incident like this leads to improvement in the entire cycle from manufacturing, to user training to maintenance procedures.
The fact that one retired colonel, who is Dalal of foreign maal wrote against T-90 is enough to look deeper into it to see if we got a good deal. (And disclaimer before I go ahead- I am all for Arjun and it is a far better tank than T-90)-
1. T-90 was designed by Russia for India. Just like su30mki was made for us after ussr breakup, this was made for us based on our requirement. That’s why perhaps we own 90% of T-90 ever made (including in Russia).
2. It is still better than anything tsp or Chicom can throw at us bar the latest entry (and t90 was bought before that).
3. It is 1/3 rd the price of Arjun’s and we make 96% of the part in house. For Arjun, we had to import at least 70% of it by cost. Even though Arjun design is ours.
4. It should be within our means to rectify and upgrade T-90 on our own based on experience gained from
Arjun. Both should be /are happening. Upgrade we hear about, trouble shooting I doubt we are running to mother Russia, we must be doing or should be doing on our own.
5.Russian armor has not fared great against atgm, we don’t know how Arjun would have fared, Mavreka, heavier than Arjun has not done great against atgm (though Israeli used better combined tactics where atgm shots were difficult to make).
Can we stop dishing T-90 please. Almost 99% of Russian armor in the current conflict is not t-90.