No single buyer and it is not tested by any army,so we don't know it having any problem or not.
Object-195 design is actually the 2nd closest design after T-14 for our RFI. And even though the design was not taken forward for any number of reasons, that project is still ahead of what other countries may have had for a NG tank.
A high calibre gun, fully sealed and seperate crew compartment. A powerful engine.
Russians did realise having a universal platform would reduce costs very effectively. And this was one of the main reasons why I think the Object-195 project wasn't carried on.
A high calibre gun, fully sealed and seperate crew compartment. A powerful engine.
Russians did realise having a universal platform would reduce costs very effectively. And this was one of the main reasons why I think the Object-195 project wasn't carried on.
Army now wants 1,750 new futuristic infantry combat vehicles | India News - Times of India
India News: The Army now wants to acquire 1,750 futuristic infantry combat vehicles, with state of the art weapons and capable of swiftly transporting soldiers, t
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The Army now wants to acquire 1,750 futuristic infantry combat vehicles (FICVs), with state-of-the-art weapons and capable of swiftly transporting soldiers, through a new `Make in India’ project in the years ahead.
Army now wants 1,750 new futuristic infantry combat vehicles | India News - Times of India
India News: The Army now wants to acquire 1,750 futuristic infantry combat vehicles, with state of the art weapons and capable of swiftly transporting soldiers, t
The Army now wants to acquire 1,750 futuristic infantry combat vehicles (FICVs), with state-of-the-art weapons and capable of swiftly transporting soldiers, through a new `Make in India’ project in the years ahead.
Weird. The RFI is not available on their website.
FICV Tender Document attached.
Interestingly, it's not under strategic partnership model.
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Interestingly, it's not under strategic partnership model.
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It's not supposed to be. Right now, SPM covers fighter jets, armoured vehicles, helicopters and submarines. With FRCV, it doesn't make sense to have a second strategic partner through FICV. Eventually what it means is, we will have a private company competing with DPSUs in each segment. Will work out 100% if HAL is kicked out of NUH and MDL loses P-75I. In the near future more SPM projects will be revealed in each segment.
Lots of other interesting things in the RFI. So the companies are expected to choose their procurement category, so that would mean those with money can choose Make II, those without money but with indigenous design can choose Make I, whereas those that do not have their own design can participate using foreign OEM designs through Buy and Make. It's a competition between Indian and foreign designs then.
2 years is quite unrealistic for delivery of 100 LSP. The IA has to provide at least 4 years for the ones still in development. Or else the tender will favour only foreign equipment that are already available, like the K21. Plus the fact that if R&D is rushed without making room for adequate development time, then the product is going to be faulty later on.
The ATGM requirement is funny. They ask for third gen but want features of 4th of one type and 5th gen of another.
2 years is quite unrealistic for delivery of 100 LSP. The IA has to provide at least 4 years for the ones still in development. Or else the tender will favour only foreign equipment that are already available, like the K21. Plus the fact that if R&D is rushed without making room for adequate development time, then the product is going to be faulty later on.
The ATGM requirement is funny. They ask for third gen but want features of 4th of one type and 5th gen of another.
Wasn't the frcv supposed to be a family of armoured vehicles which would have included tanks, ifv, APCs, engineering vehicles, etc ? If the FRCV requirements were released some time back then why the FICV thing now?
Or its just the Army trying to collect some data or simply market research?
The FRCV will replace the T-72 and all its associated vehicles. The FICV will partner up with the T-90s.
Wouldn’t it make sense for HAL to take part the NUH tender but forfeit the NMRH one instead as they already have a capable Naval ALH MK3 which seems to fit the bill?
NMRH could instead be given to the private companies as HAL has not yet developed a maritime version of IMRH. Agree with the rest of what you said.
IN doesn't want HAL's products. They are still too inexperienced to make naval helicopters. Also, their main offer is the Dhruv, which is not a naval helicopter. What HAL calls naval doesn't mean the IN also calls it naval. Just one of the problems is the blades, it's not been designed for naval use, so it fails on that metric alone.
They have got nothing for NMRH anyway.
It doesn't have to be one or the other. NUH and NMRH will give us two private players, and that's how it's gonna have to be for the future of India's aerospace industry. The same story with fighter jets, hopefully MRFA and AMCA will give us two private lead integrators as well.
Ashok Leyland in pact with DRDO arm to develop combat vehicle engines
The 600-HP engine will undergo rigorous testing in lab and will be qualified for application in tanks
This is exciting and unexpected. Ashok Leyland is already partner in this project. Safe to assume it will be a success from the get go.
Awesome find @Ankit Kumar.
So they are keeping the power output to 600hp for testing the engine.
Remember the engine has been designed from ground up to be a 700hp engine. It makes sense to not do the initial trial run at max power rating.
The last update we had on the engine was from May 2021. CVRDE was testing thei newly designed Variable Geometry Turbocharger, fuel injection systems & control algorithm's on a commercial off-the -shelf Mahindra's 120 hp mHawk engine.
Recently CVRDE has signed a deal with Ashok Leyland for being the development, testing & production partner for this engine.
Ashok Leyland partners with CVRDE to develop 600hp engine - ET Auto
Ashok Leyland themselves have delivered the very reliable Neptune series of diesel engines to the Army on many of the Army's trucks.
This will be a new experience for AL too. Their engines so far have been 4 or 6 cylinders inline configuration with a power band of 300-500hp. They have no experience with 90deg V8 engines that too a 700hp one.