To all Turkish brothers, there are some news about our cooperation to develop Medium Tank.
FNSS and Pindad (Indonesian state-owned defence industry) has finish signed a contract to joint developement of first Medium tank prototype, which is about 30-38 month after contract signed.
These are miniature design of the Medium tank which is included in Armoured Vehicles Asia Conference 2015.
However, Pindad official says the design still need to be improved to suit Indonesian geography. The team from both countries will build an entirely new vehicle. The turret is confirmed to use CMI's CV-CT 105mm gun. The weight won't exceed 40 tonnes.
Here's the news.
2 Prototype Medium Tank will be Completed in 37 Months
07 Mei 2015
Two countries sign agreement for design and manufacture of 2 prototype medium-weight tanks (photo : Defense Studies)
Turkey, Indonesia agree to develop medium-weight tank
Turkey and Indonesia have signed an agreement to jointly develop and produce a medium-weight tank, Turkey’s Undersecretary for Defense Industries announced Thursday.
The two countries signed an agreement for the design and manufacture of 2 prototype medium-weight tanks. Intellectual property rights will belong to both countries, the Undersecretary said in a statement.
The deal, which will be completed in 37 months, also included manufacturing one body tank to be used in mine tests.
Under the program, surveillance activities will be perfomed by an executive committee which will be established by the Ministry of National Defense of Indonesia and Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defense Industries.
Turkish FNSS Defense Systems, the leading land combat systems company in Turkey, will provide job training to Indonesia's state-owned PT Pindad for the medium-weight tank’s design and production.
The first prototype will be produced in Turkey with the participation of PT Pindand’s engineers and the second prototype will be produced in Indonesia by PT Pindad.
(Anadolu Agency)
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Indonesia initiates to build a tank as an urgent requirement to replace all 400 unit of AMX-13, while 100 Leopard's ordered to replace Scorpion 90 light tank. If this tank completed and managed to went full-scale production, no doubt Turkey will be credited to "help" create South East Asia's first indegeneous MBT.
Who knows after series of production, these "Medium Battle Tanks" could evolve into a real MBT, along with IFV/APC variant
And Happy Ramadhan for all!
