Failure of Arjun Tank is an example of failed Indian technocrats running after quick money American body shop contracts
Harish Baliga
Jul. 13, 2008

It is a shame that the Arjun Tank – Indian indigenous manufacturing efforts of high quality defense armor has miserably failed.

It is the failure Indian science and engineering. It just shows where the country has gone under the guidance of dollar and euro loving ‘India Inc.’.

Fourteen Arjun tanks were handed over to the Indian Army for user trials last year but were returned to the manufacturer - the Combat Vehicles Development Establishment - with a list of defects. These included a deficient fire control system, inaccuracy of its guns, low speeds in tactical areas - principally the desert - and the tank's inability to operate in temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius.

Now the Defense research organization DRDO calls for investigation on sabotage. There is no sabotage. Indian Army has denied the same. It is a just failed Indian engineering and poor quality.

This just shows the what talented Indian engineers are and were doing in the last twenty five years.

The young talented engineers served as cyber slaves working for American and European companies fixing their ‘legacy systems’ and picking up useless call center phone calls.

India is now void of technical talent to build and service ‘real world class engineering.’

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