India Took 35 Years to Make Its First Tank (And It Was a Total Disaster)

National Interest ^ | November 27, 2016 | Kyle Mizokami

[cloudmountain]

Top *10*? Seriously, how many other MBT's are out there that aren't made of just papier-mâché? Make it the top 3 and call it a day. The rest are just cannon-fodder.

Hey, that list was on GOOGLE. Aren't they the TRUTH-SAYERS of the world these days?

I WOULD go for the German tanks, myself. But, I'll go with what you wrote...top three.

[cloudmountain]

The statistics you published are ABSOLUTELY appalling.
CHINA has murdered almost EIGHT BILLION of its own? My God in heaven!
There WILL a reckoning one day for their murdering of God's youngest and most innocent of souls.

[sukhoi-30mki]

The problem with this article is it assumes that the Indian Army opposes the Arjun SOLELY for technical issues. The Indian Army standardized on the T-72 and its variants since the late 70s. So that means training combat crews, maintenance and logistics personnel ans developing supply systems, rail and road transport frameworks for a three-man-crewed medium-sized tank armed with a 125-mm smooth bore gun.

The Arjun project was reworked in the late 80s from being a medium-sized tank — when Pakistan was close to buying the M-1 Abrams — to turning into a four-man-crewed “Western style” tank with a 120-mm rifled bore gun. Any army would hate to have to extremely different weapon systems and associated training and logistics systems.

Long story short, the article has some shreds of truth but has no clue on the background and loses the plot as a result.

[sukhoi-30mki]

https://battlemachines.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/arjun-indias-first-mbt/

http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/2010/03/arjun-tank-outruns-outguns-russian-t-90.html

http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/2007/09/desert-duel-that-wasnt.html

The author of the last two blogs was a tank officer in the Indian Army.