The start of the 20th century saw the arrival of tanks - fearsome armoured vehicles capable of breaking through enemy defences. There was one small problem, though. They were… very expensive, right from the get-go. Not every nation could afford to design and produce their own tanks, and that’s why it often made sense for a developing country to buy them from industrial powerhouses - like the US or the Soviet Union. That was exactly the conclusion India came to in the mid 1950s: the country desperately needed to have a capable tank force, but was short on both money and qualified personnel to make their own tanks from scratch.
At first, India considered reaching an agreement with Germany, but then the British turned up and snatched the initiative by making an offer that was very hard to refuse. Not only were they ready to help set up factories in India to produce tanks, but they also agreed to pass the technical know-how to local engineers.
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