the road runner
Active Member
Thanx ,but i will stick with my point that is has taken 36 years to design/develope and field this MBT with the Indian army indicating it dose not want more ARJUN MBT.It sounds like an obsolete beast to me.Don’t take it otherwise but suppose you are on a plan to prepare a fusion-dish of continental and Thai for a party and it take 6 week to become expert on that never does mean that you going serve them the dish which contains 6 week old ingredients. Is not it?
Well let me make the thing a bit more clear to you….. Whenever there is plan taken on any industry to produce some thing new it take a lot time on design-evolution-redesign phase. You can take help of any production model like spiral model or waterfall model even COCOMO model. The initial design phase is never self sufficient. So what the developer do is the first build a simple design and when it finished the start improving the parameters along with all possible deterministic method to improve its effectiveness. For simplicity am adding a line model for the design and evolution process along with a time frame.
As you can see on the diagram each part ABCDE….. takes some time and why this happen is just because at the beginning the designer knows a very less regarding the project and thus the product is some what less efficient than the actual requirement . With time their skill and knowledge also increases. You can remember the fact that NASA at the beginning fails on many occasion which remarkably decreases with time as their expertise grows. This term is very much important and became a key point when the development cross a line for which the model became much more advanced than the present time frame specification. And here after the production starts. It is quite obvious that the final out come is much more advanced than the initial design.
And again the fact is that even after entering the production stage the development stage does not ended. It is simply because the developer want to achieve some more future design which can withstand the upcoming market.
The same thing happens with the Arjun development process also and obviously Arjun is not a 36 year old thing rather I would prefer to say it just a new born baby which spend 36 year on the incubator And we can hope on near feature we can see a much more advanced version of that may be in some other name.
My 2c