...sooo what the article says is that nothing that was assembled in India works?
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“...sooo what the article says is that nothing that was assembled in India works?”
If truth be told, it really isn’t India’s fault. World class tanks requires a combination of design talent and manufacturing capabilities that most countries simply don’t have. And getting those capabilities from scratch are incredibly difficult. And most countries with the capability would loathe to share their knowledge, as Russia has wisely chosen not to do with India in regards to the T-90.
America, Russia, and the EU can design and build great tanks because they have been in the business for the last 70 years.
The above 3 aside, only 2 other countries have competitive tank designs and the manufacturing competencies to crank them out by the thousands: China and Israel.
China did it after after decades of investment, espionage, and the good fortune of recruiting a bunch of Russian and Eastern European military scientists after the USSR collapsed.
Israel managed to do it all via their local talent pool. With such a small population, Israel’s Merkava tank is a pretty exceptional achievement.