Zorawar: Light tank for Indian army

jmaxwell_ said:
Given the latest article is saying the 59 L&T will be in parallel to the 295 TASL/Mahinda order... I'm leaning towards assuming TASL/Mahindra will be some 🪛 JV.

Hopefully that is not the case and L&T makes a TON more profit than TASL/Mahindra otherwise private industry will learn the wrong lessons... i.e. stay away from DRDO partnerships because you will get larger orders with less R&D headache/investment doing 🪛.
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It's make I category, so it won't be screwdrivergiri.
Shan said:
105mm is standard and I hope they stick with it.
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Why ? Isn't having 125mm smoothbore helps in indian logistics ?
 
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Zorawar weight class changed to 30 tonnes category. Could be due to a number of reasons like the level 5/6 protection requirements or maybe the in-development Indian substitutes for the imported systems are just too heavy. I would be betting more on the former, or who knows it's a mix of both. image-18.png
 
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2101521565061918857

I absolutely love this. When the project 1st started I said that everyone single *censored*ing person who is supporting this is an idiot. You cannot have a "tank" under 35 tons.

DRDO did a very decent task of building an armoured infantry fire support vehicle Zorawar under 25 tons.

I had at the very beginning told that if you want a tank - i and most conventional armies will put that vehicle infront of a combined arms formation because it will most likely survive a 105mm AP round in the frontal arc.

Anything which cannot do this is not a tank. It's an infantry fire support vehicle.

Now the best light tank which will fullfil a requirement of Army for a fake tank is CV90-120. 4dv5yhpe3k741.jpg
 
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The Zorawar's composite hull can possibly be up-armoured but the Cockerill 3105 barely has any armour of it's own.

The Army's new spec will likely require a new turret (preferably remote controlled) to keep weight down. But there would still be compromises, considering all the other gear like ATGW, APS, RCWS, etc on it.
 
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Speedster1 said:
The Zorawar's composite hull can possibly be up-armoured but the Cockerill 3105 barely has any armour of it's own.

The Army's new spec will likely require a new turret (preferably remote controlled) to keep weight down. But there would still be compromises, considering all the other gear like ATGW, APS, RCWS, etc on it.
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The turret they are making is said to weigh 8 tonnes when fully populated. Here's to hoping, that the new protection requirements were factored in during it's design.

Btw the C3105 turret is said to be able to reach lvl 5 in heavier configs, but it is not known if it's the case with the one on Zorawar.
 
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RandomGoober said:
The turret they are making is said to weight 8 tonnes when fully populated. Here's to hoping, that the new protection requirements were factored in during it's design.

Btw the C3105 turret is said to be able to reach lvl 5 in heavier configs, but it is known if it's the case with the one on Zorawar.
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Apparently the bare bones C3015 is in roughly the same ballpark in terms if weight.

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Add on armour panels and other gear will likely take its weight up a ton or two.
 
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Ashwin said:
How exactly is this realated to privatisation? This has been there all the time. It's an institutional issue with the services.
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When it was just one wing of the govt speaking to another, the incompetence was simpler to pin on DRDO ( "always late" ) or PSUs ( "lazy/shoddy workmanship "). Seldom the shifting goalposts of the services or the timely MoQ clearances/funds by MoD.

And here we are, a tank designed to QR in 19 months and ready to be manufactured, yet barely given an order of 18. I suspect that too, only because L&T probably sent signals they were looking to pull the plug or sue... after all this is not a PSU running a charity here.
 
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