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Altay & Turkish Main Battle Tank Programs

Maybe CAT?

Three options imo.

South Korea - Doosan DV27K 1500hp but their transmission didn't perform well years ago which led to them using their own engine together with Renk transmissions, maybe they fixed it.

Italy - IVECO MTCA 1600hp

England - No idea, maybe someone else knows more about English engines.
 
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Italy is like our secret strategic ally in Europe.

We just request and Italy provides What We want

Europe offered Eurofighter participation to Turkey over Italy.
MBDA offers Aster-30 participation over Italy.
Turkey apply Italian technology to develop domestic helicopter industry (both attack and utility)
Turkey developed more powerfull rocket motor for Italian aspide SAM missiles.
Turkey produces auxiliary jet motors for Italian Otomat anti-ship missiles
Italy outsourced AW-139 fuselage production to Turkey.
MKEK produces Italian guns for Turkish naval platforms
Italy helped RMK to design S&R vessel
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Both country don't like Greece. :D

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/turkey-italy-future-defence-industry-opportunities.367365/

I didn't know iveco had such powerful engine.
 
I think it’s Italy they seem to be the best option since they also collaborated with Turkey on the helicopter project
They are far more reasonable than other terror-loving european “allies” or should I say straight away enemies...
Great statement by @cabatli_53
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Actually news about italian engine appeared in November last year...
In February there were news about Germany supposedly giving green light for Altay engine later these news were denied
Maybe Turkey tried with the germans for one last time but when turks saw germans duplicity they activated plan B - italian option
I guess plan C was korean option and the plan D ukranian as last resort
 
So it appears as if the engine problem is almost solved. I still hope that either Otokar or FNSS has a part to play in the project.

I don't want to turn this into something political but Otokar got absolutely robbed when the the future of the project was awarded to BMC. Both Otokar and FNSS have experience with tracked vehicles and their factories could build the Altay tank.

But instead it was given to BMC because of Ethem Sancak.

What many people like to forget is the fact that the project was held back an extra two years because BMC didn't have the experience or capabilities to produce tanks. If Otokar kept the project in their hands then we could've acquired the 1600HP IVECO engine sooner and started production two years ago.

I hope our projects never suffer again due to nepotism.
 
I want to thank god once again that the project was not awarded to Otokar.

Otokar was trying to rob the Turkish people by offering the contract for $7b while BMC agreed to $4b.

If we were living in one of the nepotistic governments of the past I am sure they would have awarded the project to Otokar and shared the profits.

Lets also not forget that the engine issue is a political one. And that it is independent of the companies.
 
I want to thank god once again that the project was not awarded to Otokar.

Otokar was trying to rob the Turkish people by offering the contract for $7b while BMC agreed to $4b.

If we were living in one of the nepotistic governments of the past I am sure they would have awarded the project to Otokar and shared the profits.

Lets also not forget that the engine issue is a political one. And that it is independent of the companies.


You're a legitimate Aktroll dude. The Turkish nation has been robbed of hundreds of billions by AKP. I hope you're glad that Turkish taxpayer money goes towards Erdoğan's palaces.

BMC offering 4 billion and actually delivering it for 4 billion are two entirely different things. As always project costs are much different once complete. Please keep your propaganda out of this thread. Even most AKP supporters agree that giving the contract to BMC was wrong. It made absolutely zero sense and was a classical and blatant case of nepotism.

Anyways I hope we see these beasts in the inventory soon.
 

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