Схемы танка Arjun Mk1A появились в китайских соцсетях

Blueprints and technical drawings of the Arjun Mk1A tank, currently being developed for the Indian Army, have turned up on Chinese social media sites and offer an unprecedented glimpse of the tank’s armor layout and design. The diagrams themselves reportedly derive from information released in support of the tank’s introduction into an online gaming environment prior to the Arjun Mk1A’s announcement in War Thunder. Although the technical drawings are believed to be based upon publicly accessible documentation-its circulation on Chinese social media is unusual. The diagrams include various measures of and diagrams regarding sections of the tank. It also describes the constitution of the Arjun Mk1A hull protection including its Kanchan composite armor. While stating that it consists of a layer of armor steel and the mentioned composite material for the upper glacis, it also gives specific measurements of both that feature along with the lower glacis and upper hull. It describes the side skirt armor and portions of the engine compartment for the vehicle and clearly indicates a constitution involving regular rolled homogeneous armor alongside composite protection rather than a sole composite element of unspecified properties. Another set of drawings describes the Arjun Mk1A’s gun shield, gun-mantlet section and specifies some measurements for various steel segments and the composite material inside for the part, offering an analysis of approximate protection of gun-mantlet in RHA eq. Though this should be taken very carefully because this can never reveal exactly what composite armor offers using simple summed thicknesses. The third set offers drawings that clearly illustrate the turret armor diagram.It shows specific pieces that form front-and-sides in terms of shape as well as location and quantity of the Kanchan composite layers utilized. There are sections of the turret roof, crew-hatch area and rears that were also identified, alongside a variety of angle demonstrations used throughout that display how the Physical Geometry of the turret lends itself to protection. That said, this cannot be taken as a true measure of an operative Arjun Mk1A’s protection since many details of the blueprint are not inherently about specifications of classified information, material composites, or ballistic testing; however the documents found prominence due to news that the Arjun Mk1A tank is going to be included in War Thunder, where they have been compared with that game’s ingame representation and are being scrutinized by forum-goers who point out several anomalies comparing documentation and game with each other in relation to the other aspects mentioned. This is all very interesting in relation to how much or little of actual tank protection can be extracted by diagrams but one should not take this as definitive. While it is interesting that this information surfaced on social media the implications about compromising recent Indian military information seem unlikely as it appears based on existing, rather than completely new and classified blueprints, as far as one can tell. Still, as the story illustrates, Open-Source Intelligence can quickly combine technical drawings with information distributed around a wide spectrum: including defense publications, engineering diagrams, online gaming communities, and now, China-based social media. idrw.org like to confirm this are publically available documents and are not classified documents.