Future Combat Vehicle Programs (FRCV and FICV)

[randomradio]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2057118942200771055

https://twitter.com/x/status/2057119778662473811

He's talking about APFSDS penetration. The Mango and Mango 2 rounds on T-90 provide up to 550 mm DoP. Western shells go up to 800 mm using tungsten. The latest American and Russian shells now exceed 1000 m using DU.

Arjun's shells used to do 370 mm and have now been upgraded to 600-650 mm.

Russian T-90s with a new autoloader design can manage new longer rod Lekalo shells with DoP of 650 mm and Svinets can do up to 750 mm.

So the goal of FRCV is to achieve Western standards using tungsten.

 

[Photon Vish]

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He's talking about APFSDS penetration. The Mango and Mango 2 rounds on T-90 provide up to 550 mm DoP. Western shells go up to 800 mm using tungsten. The latest American and Russian shells now exceed 1000 m using DU.

Arjun's shells used to do 370 mm and have now been upgraded to 600-650 mm.

Russian T-90s with a new autoloader design can manage new longer rod Lekalo shells with DoP of 650 mm and Svinets can do up to 750 mm.

So the goal of FRCV is to achieve Western standards using tuntungsten

How will FRCV achieve over 1000mm using tungsten ? Longer rod ?

 

[Lolwa]

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How will FRCV achieve over 1000mm using tungsten ? Longer rod ?

Typically a larger autoloader along with longer rod will be required. Only Armata has a 1000mm rha apfsds with the vacuum 1. The m829 A3/E4/a4 and DM-83 are in the 750-900+ mm rha domain. Chinese apfsds are in the 800mm

 

[RandomGoober]

He's talking about APFSDS penetration. The Mango and Mango 2 rounds on T-90 provide up to 550 mm DoP. Western shells go up to 800 mm using tungsten. The latest American and Russian shells now exceed 1000 m using DU.

Arjun's shells used to do 370 mm and have now been upgraded to 600-650 mm.

Russian T-90s with a new autoloader design can manage new longer rod Lekalo shells with DoP of 650 mm and Svinets can do up to 750 mm.

So the goal of FRCV is to achieve Western standards using tungsten.

No, he was in fact talking about armour stuff. You can watch the whole thing here.

#firepower #protection #mobility #drones #electronicsurveillance #afv #camouflage #jamming #ceramics #composites #mbt #namica #combatvehicles #defencetechnology #armoursystems #soldiersurvivability… | Maj Gen Ravi Arora

Dr. P. Ramasuba Reddy, Scientist ‘F’, DMRL, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India gave a talk on “𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” at the Advanced Materials & Additive Manufacturing for Defence & Aerospace seminar, on 7 April 2026 at New Delhi. The event was organised...

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[randomradio]

No, he was in fact talking about armour stuff. You can watch the whole thing here.

#firepower #protection #mobility #drones #electronicsurveillance #afv #camouflage #jamming #ceramics #composites #mbt #namica #combatvehicles #defencetechnology #armoursystems #soldiersurvivability… | Maj Gen Ravi Arora

Dr. P. Ramasuba Reddy, Scientist ‘F’, DMRL, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India gave a talk on “𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” at the Advanced Materials & Additive Manufacturing for Defence & Aerospace seminar, on 7 April 2026 at New Delhi. The event was organised...

www.linkedin.com

Yeah, he says armor and is generally speaking about it, but he switches to speaking about FSAPDS penetration and how the armor needs protection from these new shells.

He's essentially saying, "Previous armor was designed for protection up to 500-550 mm (ie, the current Pakistan and Chinese shell standards), and new armor will see protection against 800 mm shells (future Pakistani and Chinese standards).

But the actual tank armor itself will have far more protection, ie, 1000+ mm or even 1200-1300 mm level protection for the capsule.

So the numbers he used were specifically about the shells themselves.

 

[randomradio]

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How will FRCV achieve over 1000mm using tungsten ? Longer rod ?

With tungsten, the best available today is 800-900 mm.

 

[Gautam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2060257356689359223

 

[South block]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2062842703596183974

 

[South block]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2062846729096175786

 

[Ashwin]

 

[RandomGoober]

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It's strange they say level 5/4 here but TASL specs say only upto level 4 and 2B blast (when it should be 3B from what I have seen beforehand).

Also I don't understand why they have given it extra thick panels on 1/3rd of the frontal sides if it's indeed only upto level 4 because STANAG doesn't need a protection arc for this level.