Project Zorawar

Project Zorawar

News: With the “increased threat” from China along India’s northern borders “likely to remain in the foreseeable future”, the Army is launching Project Zorawar - the induction of indigenous light tanks for quicker deployment and movement in high altitude areas.

About:
• The project has been named ‘Zorawar’ after Zorawar Singh Kahluria, a military general who served under Jammu’s Raja Gulab Singh, known as the ‘conquerer of Ladakh’.
• The Army is looking at a light tank with a maximum weight of 25 tons.
• The tank should be armed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), integration of tactical surveillance drones to provide a high degree of situational awareness and loitering munition, along with an active protection system.
• An active protection system is designed to protect vehicles from anti-tank guided missiles and projectiles away from combat vehicles.
• It has been designed in such a way that it will be able to operate in varying terrain from High Altitude Area, island territories as well as marginal terrain.
• The Army also wants the light tank to be amphibious, so it can be deployed across riverine regions and even the Pangong Tso Lake in Eastern Ladakh.