India's military capabilities face scrutiny amid tensions with China and Pakistan, particularly concerning its main battle tank (MBT) fleet. Reliant on Soviet-era T-72 tanks and challenged by the domestic production of the Arjun tank, India confronts technical and operational setbacks.
After two years of mobilization, Russian industry is building perhaps 300 new T-90M and T-72B3M tanks a year. The Russians lost four of those T-90s in a single failed attack.
Russia’s T-90 main battle tank (MBT) began life as a Soviet program. While most modern militaries had embraced the concept of a main battle tank and focused their production and deployment on a single variant, the Soviet army had ordered T-64s, T-72s, and T-80s.