{"id":195263,"date":"2008-07-20T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/epic-fail-india-finally-ends-arjun-tank-program\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T15:06:00","slug":"epic-fail-india-finally-ends-arjun-tank-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/epic-fail-india-finally-ends-arjun-tank-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Fail: India Finally Ends Arjun Tank Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More specifically, they will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseindustrydaily.com\/India-Plans-to-Cap-Arjun-Tank-Production-04984\/#more-4984\">terminating production after their already-committed total of 124<\/a>, and upgrading the remainder of their tank corps with some 1,657 1,657 T-90S Bhishma tanks of Russian origin.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the design and development of this tank began in <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">1974<\/span>, so after 34 years of development, it <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">finally<\/span> appears dead.<\/p>\n<p>Not even US defense procurement programs are this screwed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More specifically, they will be terminating production after their already-committed total of 124, and upgrading the remainder of their tank corps with some 1,657 1,657 T-90S Bhishma tanks of Russian origin. Note that the design and development of this tank began in 1974, so after 34 years of development, it finally appears dead. Not even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1151,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-south-asia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}