Key facts
- Type
- Main battle tank
- Place of origin
- India
- Designer
- Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment
- Designed
- 1983–1996
- Manufacturer
- Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (at Heavy Vehicles Factory )
- Developed into
- Future Main Battle Tank
- Produced
- 2004– present
- Number span no built
- 141 (as of 2021)
- Variants
- See Variants
- Mass
- MK1 : 58.5 tonnes (57.6 long tons; 64.5 short tons), MK1A : 68 tonnes (67 long tons; 75 short tons)
- Length
- MK1 : 10.19 metres (33 ft 5 in), MK1A : 10.64 metres (34 ft 11 in)
- Width
- MK1 : 3.85 metres (12 ft 8 in), MK1A : 3.95 metres (13 ft 0 in)
- Height
- MK1 : 2.32 metres (7 ft 7 in), MK1A : ~2.8 metres (9 ft 2 in)
- Crew
- 4 (commander, gunner, loader and driver)
- Armour
- ERA–NERA , Kanchan armour
- Main armament
- 1× 120 mm rifled tank gun able to fire LAHAT , SAMHO , HEAT , APFSDS , HESH , PCB, Thermobaric rounds , (Rate of fire: 6–8 rounds/minute, total: 42 containerized rounds)
- Secondary armament
- 1 × NSV 12.7mm AA MG on BEL RCWS , 1 × MAG 7.62 mm Tk715 coaxial MG, 12 × 81mm AT-AL smoke grenades. ( MK1 ) 16 × 81mm AT-AL smoke grenades. ( MK1A )
- Engine
- MK1 : MTU MB 838 Ka-501 V10 ; 1,400 hp (1,030 kW) liquid-cooled turbocharged diesel engine , MK1A : DATRAN ; 1,500 hp (1,118 kW) V12 engine
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- main battle tank
- Named after
- Arjuna
- Country of origin
- India
- Manufacturer
- Heavy Vehicles Factory
- Image
- Arjun MBT bump track test.JPG
- Height
- 2
- Width
- 4
- Length
- 11
- Speed
- 67
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- Commons category
- Arjun tanks
- total produced
- 124
- Commons gallery
- Arjun MBT
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