Modernisation of Indian Army Infantry

[ezsasa]

yes, and they are doing a good job. they seem to have solved a long standing issue of pipeline management, prioritisation, financing and in house technical proficiency, within IA.

nonsensical RFIs without proper tech specs are quite rare now a days.

Army had its own design bureau?
Is it manned by its own afsars?

once in a while spend time on tracking their activities.

Just to pay lip service to aatmanirbharta, they know that as long as they do this jhumla and sabotage placing of orders they can continue to import under 'emergency procurement'

• Army Design Bureau (ADB) acts as a facilitator for technological R&D efforts and procurement of indigenously developed weapons and equipment. ‘Make Projects’ are being spearheaded by the Indian Army to compliment the vision of Government of India and to create a robust defence ecosystem. Out of 52 Make Projects, 35 Projects have reached prototype development stage and beyond. Number of projects under Army Technology Board (ATB) have risen from 17 to 62 in one year.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2088180

for example, this contract is an outcome of this process flow. ​

CONTRACT SIGNING OF ARMY iDEX PROJECT​

CONTRACT SIGNING OF ARMY iDEX PROJECT

Continuing with the commitment towards the Atmanirbhar initiative, Indian Army has signed the eighth

pib.gov.in

 

[Bleh]

It is just fiberglass and resin, they'd be lucky if it stops some minor shrapnel

Can our tin-buckets or these helmets be made of ballistic materials? ... Won't simply switching to that be easier?

 

[randombully]

Can our tin-buckets or these helmets be made of ballistic materials? ... Won't simply switching to that be easier?

Army Military Helmets

Run On Wings - Offering Green Army Military Helmets at ₹ 250/piece in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Get Military Helmets at lowest price | ID: 2852658715033

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If you order 10 helmets, you get each helmet for ₹250 a peice.
There's no way they are made of ballistic materials.
Mai to the raha agar Haat se pathhar fek ke maaroge to bhi chot lagegi.

With that Said, half of our soldiers wear ₹250 helmets.

 

[ArjunMK1A]

Army Military Helmets

Run On Wings - Offering Green Army Military Helmets at ₹ 250/piece in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Get Military Helmets at lowest price | ID: 2852658715033

www.indiamart.com

If you order 10 helmets, you get each helmet for ₹250 a peice.
There's no way they are made of ballistic materials.
Mai to the raha agar Haat se pathhar fek ke maaroge to bhi chot lagegi.

With that Said, half of our soldiers wear ₹250 helmets.

Technically they are not ballistic helmets to protect our soldiers. It is an adhoc helmet.

 

[vampyrbladez]

 

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[Unknowncommando]

 

[Bleh]

Army Military Helmets

Run On Wings - Offering Green Army Military Helmets at ₹ 250/piece in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Get Military Helmets at lowest price | ID: 2852658715033

www.indiamart.com

If you order 10 helmets, you get each helmet for ₹250 a peice.
There's no way they are made of ballistic materials.
Mai to the raha agar Haat se pathhar fek ke maaroge to bhi chot lagegi.

With that Said, half of our soldiers wear ₹250 helmets.

I'm asking if they can be made of ballistic materials instead. Will they work?

 

[randombully]

I'm asking if they can be made of ballistic materials instead. Will they work?

If your gonna do that then let's also modify the design to be better as changing materials Will increase the price by magnitudes

And by doing both you basically get modern ballistic helmets

 

[Bleh]

modify the design to be better

Again... How. Is. The. Design. Itself. Inferior?

 

[Ayan Barat]

I'm asking if they can be made of ballistic materials instead. Will they work?

Yes and no; in any "bullet proof" thingy supposed to be used by a personnel you need to tackle two distinct problems. First, the penetration of the bullet and second the energy transfer. Let's consider both separately

> You simply replace the current fibreglass and epoxy matrix with a Kevlar composite. This set-up can very easily stop atleast a 9mm FMJ from penetrating.

> Now coming to energy transfer or a more accurate term would be Blunt Force Trauma. A standard 9mm would be 8g going at 350m/s so energy would be around 500J (½mv²). When the bullet would be stopped then all of this energy need to go somewhere as it's conserved. To deal with this you'd need design optimization. You'd need thick padding, which might not fit inside the current dimensional constraint. You also need to deal with bolts because a common problem with bolts are that when the bullet is stopped its energy gets transferred into those bolts and they accelerate like some projectile (consider this like the Newton's cardle) hence all modern helmets are bolt free.

So ultimately the question is why bother with another Ship of Theseus modernization when it'd be much more logical to just buy a new ballistic helmet?

 

[randombully]

Again... How. Is. The. Design. Itself. Inferior?

More tighter fit= less area put padding, doesn't cover ear and below( covering is more than high cut, but lower than traditional ballistic helmet).
If you see modern ballistic helmets they are also not as round on top as these ones, it's to increase the internal volume to put padding to absorb energy of impact