Arjun (tank)

Arjun MBT
Arjun MBT conducting driving test on sand berms.
Type	Main battle tank
Place of origin	India
Production history
Designer	CVRDE, DRDO
Designed	March 1974–present
Manufacturer	Heavy Vehicles Factory
Unit cost	₹559 million (US$8.3 million)
Produced	2004–present
No. built	366 (248 Mk-I and 118 Mk-II ordered)
Variants	Tank EX
Specifications
Weight	58.5 tonnes (57.6 long tons; 64.5 short tons) Mk.2=68 tonnes (67 long tons; 75 short tons)
Length	10.638 metres (34 ft 10.8 in)
Width	3.864 metres (12 ft 8.1 in)
Height	2.32 metres (7 ft 7 in)
Crew	4 (commander, gunner, loader and driver)

58.5 tonnes (57.6 long tons; 64.5 short tons)

The Arjun (Sanskrit: अर्जुन, pronounced [ərˈd͡ʑun] in Classical Sanskrit and pronounced [ərdʒʊn] in Hindi) is a third generationmain battle tank developed by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), for the Indian Army. The tank is named after Arjun, the main protagonist, an archer prince of the Indian epic Mahabharata.

The Arjun features a 120 mm main rifled gun with indigenously developed armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot ammunition, one PKT 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun, and a NSVT 12.7 mm machine gun. It is powered by a single MTU multi-fuel diesel engine rated at 1,400 hp, and can achieve a maximum speed of 67 km/h (42 mph) and a cross-country speed of 40 km/h (25 mph). It has a four-man crew: commander, gunner, loader and driver. Automatic fire detection and suppression and NBC protection systems are included. All-round anti-tank warhead protection by the newly developed Kanchan armour is claimed to be much higher than available in comparable third generation tanks.