Flaws in T 90 Main Battle Tanks troubles Indian Army

India Defence ^ | 6/13/2006 | Asia Age

[managusta]

The Indian Army....ripped off by both the Russians and the French.

The visual of the T-90 stopping and the crew leaping out unrolling 20 yards of string to fire the main armament, then rolling up the extended firing device while piling into the tank exceeds any film sequence featuring the Keystone cops.

FYI a crore is 10 million.

[EricT.]

The problems include critical flaws in its fire control system, availability of ammunition and, what military officers said, was avoidable overuse during training exercises, rendering many tanks in need of overhaul.

The main problem is that the M1A Abrams tanks can kill them day or night, through sand dunes, while in motion, outside of the T-90's range of fire.

[Mike Darancette]

In T-90 the "T" stands for target.

[GSlob]

Well, slapping a few Peltier junction plates on that thermal imaging camera would cool its innards while heating the external surface even more. At a surplus place one Peltier plate is about $15. Say, they need 20 of them [10 would do, but say 20]. $300 plus thermal insulation and few wires. Where are you, Asok the Intern?

[Redleg1963]

It's because the T-90, as with all the T models are POS!

If ya got a lot of em, like the Russians did in WWII with the T-34, and you have a nation to supply you with parts, like the US did with lend lease, then you're ok.

Otherwise, go with the suicide bomber....the MSM loves the suicide bombers!

[SFC Chromey]

...appears little better than the already proven T-72, also currently in service with the Indian Army.

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Um yeah, we can kill that one too. Want proof? ;)

[U S Army EOD]

Perhaps these tanks are designed like the Italian tanks were in WWII with high survivability. The Italian tanks would usually break down before they got to the battle therefore ensuring they would not be destroyed unless you burned the maintenance facility down.

[Scotsman will be Free]

You forgot a main component of WWII Italian tanks. They were the only tanks in the war equipped with backup lights.

[Pro-Bush]

Battle proven: M1A1 Abrams

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Yes, but I'm sure they were very stylish.

[U S Army EOD]

I swear this is no feces, but when I was in Germany working in an MI unit in 1977, the Germans decided to build a tank factory in Italy. They were building the Lion tank which was the export version of the Leopard. They had a big ceremony when the plant was finished and had German minister of defense to make a speech. When he was talking about the difference between the Lion and the Leopard, he said the transmission was put it backwards. It caused an international incident.

[EricT.]

I am convinced that seeing what our tanks did to those Soviet tanks in Gulf War I caused alot of the Soviet hierachy to collectively crap their pants. They surely had battle plans laid out that involved large scale armored invasions of western Europe. Watching our Abrams tanks single handedly gang-raping whole units of their best equipment must have disabused them of that idea. Probably no coincidence that the Soviet Union fell just a couple years after that.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

"temperatures inside the MBT routinely average between 55ºC and 60ºC."

That'd fry your brains out. About 135-140 degrees F

[Ceebass]

You forgot a main component of WWII Italian tanks. They were the only tanks in the war equipped with backup lights.

I heard it was rear view mirrors

[U S Army EOD]

M1 ABRAMS TANK was one of the first computer games that came out. It did pretty good against the Russian equipment and I used to think that it would sure be nice if this was real life. Actually, in real life, it performed much better than the game showed that I wouldn't believe.

[JohnBovenmyer]

prone to malfunctioning in the extreme heat of the Rajasthan desert region, where temperatures inside the MBT routinely average between 55ºC and 60ºC.

But they looked great in Siberia.

[wolficatZ]

Here they come!

[BlazingArizona]

The visual of the T-90 stopping and the crew leaping out unrolling 20 yards of string to fire the main armament, then rolling up the extended firing device while piling into the tank exceeds any film sequence featuring the Keystone cops.

Has anyone taped their calls to Tech Support?

[Nathan Zachary]

The visual of the T-90 stopping and the crew leaping out unrolling 20 yards of string to fire the main armament, then rolling up the extended firing device while piling into the tank exceeds any film sequence featuring the Keystone cops.

LoL! What a sight that must be

The French made white flag deployment device works flawlessly however.

[Calvin Locke]

Did you see the piece about the US finding a WWI French tank in a Afghanistan junk yard? The second known surviving unit.

Sent to the US for restoration for the tank museum. Something like a then state of the technology 30hp Renault engine, iirc.