Zorawar Light Tank

I'm not convinced this thing has 600mm RHA frontally under 30 tons. At best it should resist 30mm APDS frontally.
 
After drishti and Stryker I believe nothing
This beauty is definitely more than 25 tonnes thus giving army chances of rejection
Max is 27.5 ton so no problem. As per RFP
Even if it is 28,29 won't be much of a problem.
Army has no other option.

:flame:Or may be we will start hearing similar news like striker regarding m10 booker :fu:
New jv with adani
:fyeah:

But then no other tank fulfils IA requirements
Like anti drone systems , drone launchers.
Etc etc most important the weight
There is no competitor in same weight.

So still I believe they won't reject it.
Already they gave margin of 10% which means 27.5 to. Won't be a problem.

I don't think drdo saars are so dumb to make it heavier than that.
 
So all around 360 only Stanag 2 .. is like making it open for Army's rejection later. They wont buy on add on armor capability if any :accepted:
stanag 2 lmao it definatly isnt that the turret is rated for stanag 5 (25mm apfsds )
stanag 2 is for stopping 7.62x39mm ak bullets even the mahindra alsv can do that

abhay mk2 also had stanag 5 frontal safety (25mm apfsds)
 
the rpf has said 800mm dop from the atgm i dont think any 105mm atgm is there which can be cannon fired and gives 800mm dop
Requirements also had loitering munitions it would be weird if they do not present the tank with any of the requirement no?
 
I was thinking the same thing but didn’t say it loitering munitions make much more sense than ATGM on a modern light tank as it can fire the later through the main gun

View: https://x.com/alpha_defense/status/1809907058654720363

The samho is the only barrel launched atgm available which is 120mm in dia.
I would say that cannister is multi compatible given its sights which can look upto very long distance this tank can even exploit nag atgm.
I would say it might if not nag atgm could be mpatgm. As size limitation could be there.

But in today's warfare if jamming is there this drone are useless.. otherwise could boost situational awareness alot.
 
The samho is the only barrel launched atgm available which is 120mm in dia.
I would say that cannister is multi compatible given its sights which can look upto very long distance this tank can even exploit nag atgm.
I would say it might if not nag atgm could be mpatgm. As size limitation could be there.

But in today's warfare if jamming is there this drone are useless.. otherwise could boost situational awareness alot.
drones these days are very good yaar some are getting fixed with good srd and links it increased the cost but if you are doing anti tank roles it would still be much cheaper than an atgm or at par with it but with much longer range
 
drones these days are very good yaar some are getting fixed with good srd and links it increased the cost but if you are doing anti tank roles it would still be much cheaper than an atgm or at par with it but with much longer range
Drones are very easy to jamm. I will say still in Himalayan region they won't function properly(jammers).
Drones won't be completely ineffective. Nor very effective because of geography & enemy coun5er measures.

I'm not disregarding having drone by saying jamming that this....
The perks are huge of having one.
Jammers are not gonna be there always. Or the tanks are not always gonna be in jammers coverage
This applies for us too
 
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Max is 27.5 ton so no problem. As per RFP
Even if it is 28,29 won't be much of a problem.
Army has no other option.

:flame:Or may be we will start hearing similar news like striker regarding m10 booker :fu:
New jv with adani
:fyeah:

But then no other tank fulfils IA requirements
Like anti drone systems , drone launchers.
Etc etc most important the weight
There is no competitor in same weight.

So still I believe they won't reject it.
Already they gave margin of 10% which means 27.5 to. Won't be a problem.

I don't think drdo saars are so dumb to make it heavier than that.
I am happy atleast 59 tanks are confirmed
But now I have no hopes to be optimistic after so many debacles
They required ifv-wh to be amphibious but now they are going with Stryker
I have no idea whether X variant is amphibious or not but I haven't seen anything related to it
So they can retract the current rfi and then shout for import of LT below 25 tonnes
I know no such tank exists except spurt but again can't be positive until import option exists
 
The light tank was delayed due to delay in obtaining licence for German MTU MT 881 Ka-500 V8 engine.

Good thing the Germans have come to their senses due to strategic developments in their neighborhood. (Or due to the lucrative p75 I deal)

"Earlier, there was some delay in the prototype development after delays in licensing for German companies to supply the engines for the proposed tank"


"America’s Cummins engine to power Zorawar tank after Germany fails to relax trade restrictions"


In future, Is there any possibility we could retrofit this tank with the datran(or any other engine) that CVRDE is developing. I know datran is 1500HP and might be overkill, but perhaps a lower HP variant.
 

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