T-90

Algerian troops will be deployed at Niger's energy sites to protect shared energy and economic interests.

The Times of India reports that the vehicle factory Jabalpur has decoded Soviet-era blueprints to rebuild India's T-72 and T-90 battle tanks.

The VFJ has decoded nearly 70% of Soviet-era drawings for specialized fixtures used to dismantle and rebuild battle tanks.

The factory is developing domestically built designs for those fixtures, whose drawings are unavailable.

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If you were to take all of the tanks, every armored vehicle, and put them against just Egypt's Abrams tanks, and by the way, there's 600 T-90 tanks or something like that in Algeria.

I don't know how many Abrams tanks fucking, uh, Morocco has, but it's a lot.

But if you take just Egypt's Abrams tanks, there was not a single man or vehicle portable weapon on the planet that could pierce Chobham armor in 1939.

They didn't wanna grow it any, so they kept the same size turret and silhouette, but went with the autoloader system because now they don't have room for a loader.

Anyway, the T-72 has been upgraded so many fucking times that all a T-90 is, is basically a T-72 with, with fresher paint on it.

And they have been burning through the things like crazy in Ukraine.

Also, T-72 back if...

I wouldn't wanna have to use one.

Like, if, if you're gonna force me to fight in a tank in real life, it's gonna be an Abrams or a Leopard 2.

It's sure as fuck not gonna be a T-72 [laughs] or a T-90.

No thank you.

Since you are talking about Atmanirbharata, which is a recent construct as a word and as an idea in our system.

Some would suggest that the Atmanirbharata of the Arjun was stalled because we pushed for the T90 when we had a perfectly good tank in the Arjun.

Instead of 124, if we ordered 400, if those companies were building the transmission over here in India, then this entire problem of requiring another potential engine would not have

arisen.

And most of the equipment they buy, they buy in such weirdly small numbers.

The one I kind of always point to when I'm giving briefings is, They bought these four T-90 tanks from the Russians a few years back.

That would technically make Turkmenistan having the most modern tanks, but they've only got four of them, which is hardly enough to make any difference.

And I think they've been on the same trucks every single parade since they bought them.