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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 |
Unfazed by tantrums thrown by certain Indian Army officials, Indian defence establishment is looking forward minimum orders for 500 Arjun Tanks for project break even. Since the recent Summer trials were successful with DRDO outsmarting elements in Indian Army by placing a black box inside the tank to evade sabotage. The winter trials showed that the rest of the Indian Defence Establishment not agreeing with the Army reports on the Arjun Tanks.
Some of the state-of-the-art technologies incorporated in the ‘Arjun’ are modern integrated fire control system with Fire Control Computer and MRS, Hydro-pneumatic suspension, Kanchan Armour, highly lethal and accurate FSAPDS ammunition and NBC protection.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 |
The summer trials of NAG Anti-Tank missile will be carried out by the Indian Army by this July end. These trials will be the final trials to decide the induction of the missiles. The third generation, hit-to-kill anti-tank missile may be inducted into the Army by the year-end or early next year depending upon the completion of the user trials. The user trials will involve missiles would be fired against static and moving targets. NAG Missile has a range of 4 kilometers.
NAG missile is equipped with imaging infrared seeker (IIR), lock-on-before launch (LOBL) capability with the seeker tracking the target prior its launch. The missile,can be operated day or night and has top-attack capability.
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
The Accelerated User Cum Reliability Test (AUCRT) of Indian Army’s preparedness with Arjun tank is already over. On the tank’s part, the DRDO ensured the text book performance. The Arjun Tank performed in the searing heat of Rajasthan sands. The transmission gear which created a temporary hitch the winter trials, performed smoothly.
The trials are for checking the Indian Army’s preparation for inducting Arjun Tank and not judging the tank itself. However, the Indian Army projects that it’s more of Arjun Tank evaluation and not about Army’s preparedness.
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 |
Within the framework of his visit to Russia, the military delegation of the Indian armed forces headed by the chief of Army staff General Deepak Kapoor, met with Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces Colonel-General Aleksey Maslov. They discussed on military cooperation, as well as problems and prospects of building and development of the land forces of both nations.
In particular, the Russian Army chief decided to regularly exchange experience in the training of mountain warfare units. Already this year it has been planned to send ten soldiers from the Russian motorized infantry brigades (mountain) highland training centre for training in mountain-infantry units of India (Jammu and Kashmir). Russian and Indian generals discussed the possibility of a joint Russian-Indian Army exercises on peacekeeping under UN auspices, exchanged views on the problems of Russian weapons and military equipment, in use with Indian Army.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008 |
Nishant Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by DRDO for Indian Army was successfully flight tested near Kolar on 20th June 2008. The State of Art UAV is developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Bangalore jointly with DEAL, Dehradun; RDE(E), Pune and ADRDE, Agra.
Nishant is one of the few UAVs in the World in its weight class capable of being catapult launch and recovered by using parachute thus eliminating need for runway as in the case of conventional take off and landing with wheels.
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 |
Somewhere down the harsh heat of Thar deserts, one of the Defence Research and Development Organisations (DRDO) prestigious projects, the Arjun Tank, ably performs one of the stringiest of testing with Indian Army’s 43rd armour. The DRDO representatives invite as many Indian Army Armor officers to test drive it in between the tests.
South Block, New Delhi, the nation’s capital, top DRDO officials give a high pitch, power packed presentations to the defence officials.
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 |
The surface-to-surface Ballistic Missile Prithvi-II was successfully launched from ITR, Chandipur, Balasore off Orissa coast at 10:26 this morning. Prithvi – II has achieved a range of 350 Kms with a flight duration of 483 seconds reaching a peak altitude of 43.5 kms. Prithvi-II is inducted into Army and today’s launch was carried out as part of Army training.
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 |
As time has gone by, the quality of the leadership has deteriorated. It has become a 1 million plus army and it does not has the culture to make its own weapons and fight. The kargil War showed the will of the young Indian soldiers to fight and win a war, the war has exposed to the paralysis of the Indian Army (IA) leadership. The Army General had to be criticised to come back from his arms shopping trip. Estimated 700,000 Indian Army personnel deployed in mountainous Kashmir and they did not have high altitude clothing.
Indian Army leadership has taken up complaining about anything and anything around it when it comes to indigenisation of critical arms and equipment. These equipment happens to be high value and puts considerable strain on foreign exchange. This equipments also represent lucrative arms market where abnormal influences exist. (more…)
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Monday, May 5th, 2008 |
Minister of State Defence Production Rao Inderjit Singh revealed in the parliament that the government is closely monitoring the Arjun Tank AUCRT trials. This comes shortly after the talk of sabotage of Arjun Tanks during the winter trials. As per an unbelievable Indian Army report to parliament showed defects in Arjun Tank that virtually means that the entire tank is faulty. This led to the assumption that sabotage is suspected.
As per the Army the defects are Failure of power packs, Low accuracy and consistency, Failure of Hydropneumatic Suspension Units, Shearing of Top Rollers, Chipping of Gun Barrels. If there is a sabotage from within the army and this kind of report was presented to the parliament, it means some one bit more than he can chew. For example the engine failure claim has not been believed by any one and the cause was said to be the gear box.
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008 |
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Indian Army are conducting a bilateral armour exercise, codenamed Bold Kurukshetra, from 25 Mar to 5 May 08 in central India. This is the fourth in the Bold Kurukshetra series of annual exercises between the two countries.
The exercise involves the SAF soldiers from the 41st Battalion, Singapore Armoured Regiment and Headquarters, 4th Singapore Armoured Brigade. As part of the exercise, the two armies conducted joint planning and training, and executed integrated manoeuvres and live-firing. For the first time, the SAF has deployed its BIONIX I Infantry Fighting Vehicle and the BRONCO All-Terrain Tracked Carrier for this exercise series.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008 |
Indian Army has a new claim against the Arjun Tank. It claims that the engine of the Arjun Tank has failed four times. Before I get into the details further, its necessary that the background of this new claim has to be told.
Last year, Combat Vehicle Research Development Establishment (CVRDE, a unit of Defence Research and Development Organisation) was ready for a comparative trial between Indian Army’s imported T-90S and the license produced T-72 versus the home grown Arjun Tank as asked by army. The Indian Army officials realizing that the national media is scrutinizing the tanks performance, pulled out of the trials and went for a “accelerated usage cum reliability trial” (AUCRT).
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