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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.
That the 76th Guards Air Assault Division must attack with 1950s-vintage T-55s is a worrying sign for the Kremlin.
Five tanks stand out as the very best “modern” main battle tanks (MBTs) in service today.
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.