12/24/2023 0 Comments Futuristic main battle tank![]() ![]() The 'Hyberbar' engine will be able to accelerate from zero to full power at 1,500 hp in 2.8 seconds, while a conventional diesel engine requires 8-12 seconds. The new tank necessarily needs to espouse hybrid electric vehicle technology and incorporate digital vehicle electronics (vetronics) to provide intra-vehicle and inter-vehicle communication capability that will greatly improve sit awareness and enhance operational effectiveness.įor mobility, in order to achieve 'extraordinary' acceleration, the Army observes that it is necessary to couple the conventional diesel engine of the proposed tank to a turbine. Such systems are threat specific so all would have to be carried on a vehicle to gain protection against more than one part of the EM threat spectrum. Protection in the form of soft-kill system requires IR detectors, laser warning, radar warning and devices to instantaneously integrate these signals and control a countermeasure suite. The Indian Army wants the tank to have an Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system "to obviate chances of own tanks firing at each other in battle", and a whole new reliable and secure mobile communication system capable of data transmission, audio and video conference. The Army insists that stealth be built into the FMBT from the ground up - including paints/materials to provide limited invisibility in IR/visible spectrum and for scrambling and avoidance of detection. ![]() The Army's FMBT wish-list, in no particular order follows. ![]() ![]() The Indian Army is still juggling concepts of precisely what it wants from its Future Main Battle Tank (FMBT), but information shared with LiveFist provides a rare broad glimpse into work very much in progress as far as qualitative requirements for the future platform go. ![]()
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