Zorawar Light Tank

[Bleh]

The Belgian defence minister literally says "700 tanks" in the video, abhi kya pata.

Maybe like our Ninda Turtle he is a pure politician and doesn't know half of what he's saying beyond what is briefed by his underlings

Maybe also for WhAPs

 

[Satish Sharma Ji]

I still hope that we are planning our own turret at some point of time

Baba kalyani has said his company is developing one

 

[samsaptaka]

The Saab walas for e.g built a factory in Haryana to produce their AT4 & Carl Gustaf.

The import-only forces get their phoren maal and Politicians get to sell it to voters as "Make in India"

Yes, this is an insidious game which is played and our jhumla loving populace are lapping it up. I can't believe that maulana too is lapping it up and playing this game, anything assembled or in Bharath becomes #aatmanirbharta ! What a load of bull ! We are being compromised slowly in plain sight with GoI also tacitly playing along..... Meanwhile China is at a whole different level altogether, how can we be so blind, this giving me Britshit PM Chamberlain and Hitler vibes of WW2

 

[samsaptaka]

Baba kalyani has said his company is developing one

Poor Baba ! Short of assembling his own army and selling to them , he won't make any sales and might soon go bankrupt I fear

 

[Satish Sharma Ji]

Poor Baba ! Short of assembling his own army and selling to them , he won't make any sales and might soon go bankrupt I fear

They will never go bankrupt they're commercial business is huge compared to defence

 

[Binayak95]

Yes, this is an insidious game which is played and our jhumla loving populace are lapping it up. I can't believe that maulana too is lapping it up and playing this game, anything assembled or in Bharath becomes #aatmanirbharta ! What a load of bull ! We are being compromised slowly in plain sight with GoI also tacitly playing along..... Meanwhile China is at a whole different level altogether, how can we be so blind, this giving me Britshit PM Chamberlain and Hitler vibes of WW2

The fuck? You know that Carl Gustavs are being made by OFBs. And that despite having the know how and tech to build it themselves, the tender submission of SAAB which literally built a brand new factory was cheaper than the fucktards of OFB?

Can you comprehend the sheer scale of incompetence on display? a Govt owned, govt operated, govt subsidy enjoying company got outbid by a foreign national company which had to build all the facility afresh for its Indian subsidiary. Let that sink in.

That is the kind of morons that run DPSUs. No wonder MoD signed a deal for T72 engines despite those same retards screaming from high mountains about achieving indigenisation. Entire DPSU as a block should be burnt - atleast then we'll have fresh grounds to build on.

 

[GodEmperorDoom]

The fuck? You know that Carl Gustavs are being made by OFBs. And that despite having the know how and tech to build it themselves, the tender submission of SAAB which literally built a brand new factory was cheaper than the fucktards of OFB?

Can you comprehend the sheer scale of incompetence on display? a Govt owned, govt operated, govt subsidy enjoying company got outbid by a foreign national company which had to build all the facility afresh for its Indian subsidiary. Let that sink in.

That is the kind of morons that run DPSUs. No wonder MoD signed a deal for T72 engines despite those same retards screaming from high mountains about achieving indigenisation. Entire DPSU as a block should be burnt - atleast then we'll have fresh grounds to build on.

I like this attitude of people pretending that either only OFBs or Foreign OEMs exist in India.

Nice.

 

[samsaptaka]

The fuck? You know that Carl Gustavs are being made by OFBs. And that despite having the know how and tech to build it themselves, the tender submission of SAAB which literally built a brand new factory was cheaper than the fucktards of OFB?

Can you comprehend the sheer scale of incompetence on display? a Govt owned, govt operated, govt subsidy enjoying company got outbid by a foreign national company which had to build all the facility afresh for its Indian subsidiary. Let that sink in.

That is the kind of morons that run DPSUs. No wonder MoD signed a deal for T72 engines despite those same retards screaming from high mountains about achieving indigenisation. Entire DPSU as a block should be burnt - atleast then we'll have fresh grounds to build on.

Where in my post did I say anything about OFB, if you knew my history of posts, you would know that I always hated OFB and despise dpsu, the point here I am making is #aatmanirbharta should mean designed & developed (be it copy paste or stolen Design, doesn't matter) in Bharath including all components without any reliance on foriegn supply chain (or minimal reliance) by either pvt or psu, preferably pvt. What is instead happening is simply put import of foriegn maal via the backhanded route of which is being touted as #aatmanirbharta which it's not .

 

[Satish Sharma Ji]

I like this attitude of people pretending that either only OFBs or Foreign OEMs exist in India.

Nice.

Has any pvt firm stepped in to provide similar solution as saab/ofb ?

If this technology would have been given to solar industries by ofb they would have had came up with much better deal than saab. They're products are already quite affordable.

 

[eastern_bhartiya]

Poor Baba ! Short of assembling his own army and selling to them , he won't make any sales and might soon go bankrupt I fear

Dfb wallas should join hands with kalayani group to create their own army and launch bhagwa-e-porkistan

 

[Azaad]

The fuck? You know that Carl Gustavs are being made by OFBs. And that despite having the know how and tech to build it themselves, the tender submission of SAAB which literally built a brand new factory was cheaper than the fucktards of OFB?

Can you comprehend the sheer scale of incompetence on display? a Govt owned, govt operated, govt subsidy enjoying company got outbid by a foreign national company which had to build all the facility afresh for its Indian subsidiary. Let that sink in.

That is the kind of morons that run DPSUs. No wonder MoD signed a deal for T72 engines despite those same retards screaming from high mountains about achieving indigenisation.

Entire DPSU as a block should be burnt - atleast then we'll have fresh grounds to build on.

I trust you as an ex services guy know what you're advocating. With the GoI in the midst of MII fever instead of IDDM followed by MII , we're seeing the initial green shoots as financial & economic affairs reporters put it of F-OEMs coming in with or without a JV to establish shop here , participate in local tenders apart from exporting & outbid local companies including DPSUs .

First it was SAAB , then it's Airbus with H-125 itself an antiquated product competing with LUH for both the defence & civilan markets whereas neither HAL not the GoI seems interested in the larger implications of this move. Doesn't that create dependencies ? What happens tomorrow if these companies are instructed by their governments back home to go slow on production w.r.t orders from our armed forces or to withhold vital tech without which the entire production line halts given that these so called JVs are essentially only Screwdrivergiri which everybody & his dog knows but nobody wants to do anything about ?

We need the DPSUs to be modernized / upgraded followed by conferring them autonomy then privatising them , if need be to sell them off & shut down those which can't be reformed . In other words total reforms of the DPSU along with the DPP due this calendar year . Instead with the kind of moves we're seeing it seems certain GoI is preparing to throw out the baby with the bathwater. This holds true for the most low level OFB as it does for an organisation the size of HAL.

What a terrible waste of national resources ?!

Right now with the kind of euphoria surrounding MII , GoI isn't paying any attention to the DPSU ecosystem . They firmly believe that JVs between the Pvt Sector & F-OEMs or 100% F-OEMs stake & the Pvt Sector in stand alone mode are the answer to all their problems as far as production of defence equipment goes.

 

[FalconSlayers]

Looks like 2nd prototype. Love the camo!

View: https://x.com/AjayshreeSamby3/status/1928463431624974459

 

[NerVik]

Looks like 2nd prototype. Love the camo!
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And a much more cleaner look too. Just wish we made our own turrets too. All these years were wasted assembling soviet armor never learning to build our own. I hope they are doing so atleast now. The more I look at how our entire industrial complex has been setup, both military and civilian, the more I curse the congress rule that never seemed to have any desire to industrialize the nation. They were stuck in Gandhi's cottage industry jhumla that worked pre independence to break the britshit control in some way.

 

[silentassassin265]

Looks like 2nd prototype. Love the camo!
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Is it official?

 

[FalconSlayers]

Is it official?

 

[randombully]

View: https://x.com/Viv_Krishnan/status/1928659129389699332

Sss defense plans to biuld anti drone RCWS/CIWS(at least the gun part, Targeting and software most likely by partnering with another company, or selling their gun to drdo which is working on anti drone ciws) for zorawar and probably future NGMBT/FRCV.

 

[BHARAT KA BETA]

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Will ZORAWAR accomodate APS ( Active Protection System) , if yes then Will it be indigenous system or not?

 

[ArjunMK1A]

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OFB Babus will faint themselves seeing this finish level. Also the tank will have skirts to protect the sides, I hope.

Meanwhile HVF babus can't able to deliver the Arjun MK1A successfully which is going for 5+ years for an puny 114 pieces. Looks like babus there come and tight some nuts and call it a day.

No wonder Air chief is lambasting HAL folks along with other agencies which is ADA who is playing guess the year.

In next few years, DRDO will start working more with Private Players as Production partners similar to ATAGS which resulted in 2 variants.

1. Whap will be 2 variants from TATA and Mahindra
2. Light Tank from L&T. Even BF is working on their own platform
3. Vikram Vt21 started with BF, L&T is also working on their own iteration with ARDE.
4. Guns like ASMI, Ugram, CQB is moved to private companies for manufacturing.
5. Whatever TCL produces we have Armasen, SMPP, TASL solution.
6. Artillery production already started with few private companies.
7. Small Arms ammunition is being done by Private companies.
8. FMBT will also have an Private partner.
9. Upcoming Fighter plane integrator.


Basically in last few years lot of Private companies replaced the OFB. May be an decade OFB may fall due to irrelevance/obsolesce and government slowly closes the shop or further streamline them.

 

[Gessler]

View: https://x.com/Parthu_Potluri/status/1928722374515634266

A year later, I STILL can't get over how sleek & contemporary this thing looks!

When I first heard that DRDO was developing a new light tank, I expected to see a BMP-2 hull with a 105mm turret slapped on. But the Zorawar blew my expectations away, completely.

That said, I hope we get this to production soon! We need tanks like this in large numbers not just for the LAC, but also for thrusts into Gilgit-Baltistan, towards Skardu. Four flights of C-17s are enough to deploy a Zorawar light tank platoon directly to Kargil via air, on short notice (C-17 can manage up to ~35 tons to Kargil airstrip). We haven't had a capability like this in recent memory.

Fitted with onboard ATGMs and/or Loitering Munition launchers, the Zorawar LT brings an unparalleled capability to the table when the conversation to liberate PoK starts for real. But till then, yeah let's continue to pretend this is just for LAC

We'll soon have a new poster boy to recreate this image...maybe even a better one, with a much more North-Western backdrop:

 

[redpanda]

View: https://x.com/Parthu_Potluri/status/1928722374515634266

A year later, I STILL can't get over how sleek & contemporary this thing looks!

When I first heard that DRDO was developing a new light tank, I expected to see a BMP-2 hull with a 105mm turret slapped on. But the Zorawar blew my expectations away, completely.

That said, I hope we get this to production soon! We need tanks like this in large numbers not just for the LAC, but also for thrusts into Gilgit-Baltistan, towards Skardu. Four flights of C-17s are enough to deploy a Zorawar light tank platoon directly to Kargil via air, on short notice (C-17 can manage up to ~35 tons to Kargil airstrip). We haven't had a capability like this in recent memory.

Fitted with onboard ATGMs and/or Loitering Munition launchers, the Zorawar LT brings an unparalleled capability to the table when the conversation to liberate PoK starts for real. But till then, yeah let's continue to pretend this is just for LAC

We'll soon have a new poster boy to recreate this image...maybe even a better one, with a much more North-Western backdrop:

I can already imagine Haryanvi bros making song on this light tank with montage of it firing its canon.

Jokes aside. We probably need thousands of these to cover both side.