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Friday, June 05, 2009

India: 50 indigenous T-90 tanks to roll out this year

T-90 main battle tankRussia has agreed to provide India kits for 50 T-90 Main Battle Tanks under a transfer of technology agreement for indigenous production, which will enable the army to raise an armoured regiment by the year-end.

"The 50 T-90 tanks would roll out soon this year, as part of the Transfer of Technology agreement," a top Defence Ministry official said here on Friday.

"The indigenous production under technology transfer was part of the discussion that an Indian team led by Defence Secretary Vijay Singh had in Moscow this week," he said.

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1 comment:

  1. Tejaswy5/6/09 14:29

    Arjun was just an eye wash for all of us.. you know the army just ordered 126 of them to keep the media silent.I doubt it will ever be using them.

    but it is a lesson well learnt.Lets hope Arjun MK2 does not make the same mistakes as its predecessor

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