1/2/2024 0 Comments Drdo future main battle tank![]() These orders for just 246 Arjuns are insignificant, complains a senior DRDO official, given that the army fields about 4000 tanks. The army has committed to buying 118 Arjun Mark II tanks after trials are successfully concluded. And a Mark II version of the Arjun is undergoing trials in Rajasthan. Two Arjun regiments, consisting of 128 tanks, are already in frontline service. Now, by consensus between the DRDO and the DGMF, the future of indigenous tank building is to flow from the Arjun. ![]() On Dec 06, 2010, Defence Minister AK Antony had informed parliament that the "FMBT is likely to be developed by the year 2020." He said the army had already conceptualised its requirements and the DRDO was carrying out a feasibility study. ![]() Senior army sources tell Business Standard that the Directorate General of Mechanised Forces (DGMF), which oversees the army's tank force, has formally proposed that the Arjun be gradually improved through successive models - Mark II, Mark III, Mark IV and so on - rather than attempting a major technological leap into the unknown, which is what the FMBT would be. Instead, the army's tank directorate has proposed keeping faith with the home grown Arjun tank, while incrementally improving it into the future backbone of the army's strike forces. ![]() The indigenous project to build a Future Main Battle Tank (FMBT) is being quietly buried by the army. ![]()
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