Arjun Mark 1A Tanks
On 14th February 2021, Indian Prime Minister has handed over the first Arjun Mark 1A tanks, a much-upgraded version of the indigenously-developed Arjun main battle tank (MBT), to the Indian Army.
- The army will get 118 units of the Main Battle Tank, indigenously designed, developed and manufactured by CVRDE and DRDO along with other research labs.
- The Mk-1A version has 14 major upgrades on the earlier version. It is also supposed to have missile firing capability as per the design, but this feature will be added later as final testing of the capability is still on. However, the biggest achievement with the ....
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