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India will soon develop new main battle tank with protection against modern ammunition 2907142.
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| Tuesday, July 29, 2014 01:39 PM | |||
| India will soon develop new main battle tank with protection against modern ammunition. | |||
Combat
Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (CVRDE) of India would
soon come up with a futuristic battle tank that would trace an incoming
missile from the enemy camp and retaliate with its own missile combining
passive and active protection systems. |
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CVRDE
director Dr P. Sivakumar on Monday said that their laboratory had embarked
on a mission to develop a futuristic battle tank that would come with
active protection system to safeguard the tank from Fin Stabilized Armour
Piercing Discarding Sabot (FSAPDS) ammunition, the most lethal kinetic
energy ammunition, capable of destroying all known tank armour. FSA PDS
travels at a speed of over 1,700 metres per second and no country in the
world has developed a technology to protect their tanks from such a lethal
kinetic weapon.
“Countries like Israel, Russia, Germany and Sweden have technology for ammunition that travels at 1,000 metres per second and we are the first country to work in kinetic energy threats (missiles that travel at over 1,700 metres per second),” Dr Sivakumar said while speaking to DC on the sidelines of an international conference on energy materials at Sathyabama University. Pointing out that CVR DE had incorporated softkill technology (passive protection technology) in main battle tank Arjun Mark 2, the eminent scientist said that if the enemy fires a missile using an infrared weapon, softkill passive technology in Arjun mark 2 would jam the infrared rays as it had only passive technology. “Suppose the enemy fires a laser guided missile or a beam rider missile (BRM), etc, in such cases the futuristic battle tank will have laser sensors, which will identify whether it is fired from laser guided machine or BRM. The active protection system would launch grenades, which will generate smoke. By this process, we are going to hide our tank and the tank would also retaliate at the enemy by launching a missile. This way we are combining passive protection system and active protection system in a battle tank,” he said. |
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