Anything less than 1000+ ATAGS ordered makes the entire effort a waste of time. All this energy and cost just for ~150 guns for whatever niche role the IA seems it suitable for?ramana wrote:ATAGS has its uses and is not a waste of time.
Only for the critics.
This is firmly Arjun 2.0, the excuses used against it are almost identical (weight, cost per unit etc) and now they’ve opened the door to imports again expect the hit pieces to start flowing, Arjun went from a decent system to the world’s worst tank as declared by many articles/blogs explicitly.
The cynics were told the ATAGS had turned the corner and things were changing, and yet I could’ve predicted this exact outcome 7 years back when ATAGS was just on the drawing board.
On top of all this the bigger picture is they are putting ATAGS to the side and looking for their favoured imported toys but this is just an RFI, the RFI—>RFP—>contract—> delivery circus is easily another 10 years lost so the 1980s era arty plans are still just a pipe dream.
All Indian generals seem interested in doing for all 3 services is floating these RFIs, I can only speculate as to who benefits from that…..