Make In India : India to develop 1,770 ‘Hi-Tech’ fighting vehicles for Indian Army…
India to develop 1,770 armored hi-tech fighting vehicles to replace the Indian Army’s aging force of T-72 main battle tanks (MBTs).
The Indian Army is looking to procure the new so-called Future Ready Combat Vehicles (FRCV) under the Strategic Partnership model in collaboration with an Indian partner. India’s MoD issued a similar RFI already in June 2015.
The new FRCV system will serve as a platform for as many as 11 different tracked vehicles, including light tracked, wheeled, bridge layer and trawl tanks, self-propelled howitzers (SPH), air defense guns, artillery observation post and engineering reconnaissance vehicles, and armored ambulances.
Most importantly, however, it will be the base platform for India’s next indigenously designed and build MBT.
The FRCV “is proposed to be a Medium Weight Class Tank, incorporating ‘state-of-the-art’ technologies, and will remain relevant for the next 40-50 years,” the RFI reads. The new MBT should be equipped with a 120/125 millimeter main gun (firing 6-8 rounds per minute), coaxial machine guns, as well as an anti-aircraft machine gun. The tank’s main gun should also be capable of firing multiple types of ammunition including advanced anti-tank guided missiles.
The FRCV also should boost the “capability to destroy enemy tanks at ranges higher with very high first round hit/kill probability and acquire targets at a longer range.” It should also be capable of engaging low flying manned and unnamed rotary wing aircraft.
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