Lieutenant-General
A.K. Singh, general officer in command of the army's southern
command, who inspected a parade marking the deployment,
said the new tanks would especially strengthen the army's
desert operations capabilities.
The
75 Regiment is the second army unit to get the Arjun tank.
A number of former army officers, some of them war veterans
who served the 75 Regiment in the 1965 and 1971 wars, found
it hard to believe that the old warhorse, the T55, which
served the army for 40 years, was being phased out. Delays
and failures in Arjun's development from the 1990s to the
2000s prompted the army to place big orders for the T-90s
from Russia to meet the shortfall.
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