[C19fan]

Poor India. Two recent article bashing India's attempts to build indigenous major weapons systems. The Arjun looks like a knockoff of the first generation German Leopard II tank. Pakistan seems to do a much better job with indigenous weapons. One reason is they partner with China instead of trying to go it alone.

[BenLurkin]

“Spanning two centuries”.

1999 to 2001?

[freedumb2003]

Maybe it is me, but if I was Pakistan I wold not be very afraid of the Ghandi Tank. ;)

[2banana]

Wonder how is the tank’s software?

Hahaha!

[ptsal]

...This seems to beg the question about China's skillful approach to gathering technology and manufacturing know-how...

[cloudmountain]

Poor India. Two recent article bashing India's attempts to build indigenous major weapons systems. The Arjun looks like a knockoff of the first generation German Leopard II tank. Pakistan seems to do a much better job with indigenous weapons. One reason is they partner with China instead of trying to go it alone.

Why don't they just GOOGLE "BEST TANKS IN THE WORLD" and they will know where to send their money.
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/top_10_main_battle_tanks.htm

FWIW: Neither India nor Pakistan is on that list.

[M1903A1]

The Indian 1A1 rifle was a debacle as well...in part because FN (rightly) suspected design piracy was their intent, and sold them some “sample” FALs made from out-of-spec parts. None the wiser, the Indians reverse-engineered them and some sample L1A1s to create “their” design.

When they couldn’t make their hybrid rifle work (because everything was WAY out of spec), they had to approach FN and Enfield for help—and not only had to make a public apology, plus pay restitution/license fees...but they also had to buy a quantity of FN/L1A1 rifles as well.

[\/\/ayne]

Why don’t you just buy your tanks from US, India?

[chajin]

It was a tankless job, but someone had to do it.

[Gamecock]

[PLMerite]

Looks like it came out of a video game. An old one.

MkII:

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

[pabianice]

Sounds like our B-36.

[TBP]

Typical.

[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.