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[Hakan]

• The MPT is now ready for serial production.
• It has succesfully based acceptance tests.
• It will initially replace 500 G3 rifles.
• I fires the 7.62X51 mm Round.
• It was supposed to be in service in 2012 but it was delayed to this year.
• So far 200 have been produced

'Mehmetçik' seri üretime geçiyor-Sabah - 11 Mart 2014

I posted this news here for documentation purposes please discuss the development in this new thread. The MPT Has Passed Acceptance Test and is Ready for Serial Production

@Aeronaut

 

[xenon54 out]

@Bismarck

 

[Hakan]

Major MPT Development​

• The MPT has succesfully Passed Acceptance Tests
• It is ready for serial Production
• It will initially replace 500 G3 rifles.
• I fires the 7.62X51 mm Round.
• It was supposed to be in service in 2012 but it was delayed to this year.
• So far 200 have been produced

'Mehmetçik' seri üretime geçiyor-Sabah - 11 Mart 2014

I already posted this news in the Turkish fire arms discussion thread but I think this deserves its own thread

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[Kompromat]

Do we have pictures of the accepted design?

 

[madmusti]

We will see it first in Poland.

 

[Bismarck]

@Bismarck

Sir?

I know what you are asking for. "Can you visit the Expo to take some photos?" I would do, but 600 km a far away, to take some photos. Sorry.

 

[mrexil]

I think He means that News About the MPT

 

[Hakan]

Sir?

I know what you are asking for. "Can you visit the Expo to take some photos?" I would do, but 600 km a far away, to take some photos. Sorry.

 

[Bismarck]

 

[xenon54 out]

Sir?

I know what you are asking for. "Can you visit the Expo to take some photos?" I would do, but 600 km a far away, to take some photos. Sorry.

Lol i just wanted to instruct you about this news.

• The MPT is now ready for serial production.
• It has succesfully based acceptance tests.
• It will initially replace 500 G3 rifles.
• I fires the 7.62X51 mm Round.
• It was supposed to be in service in 2012 but it was delayed to this year.
• So far 200 have been produced

'Mehmetçik' seri üretime geçiyor-Sabah - 11 Mart 2014

I posted this news here for documentation purposes please discuss the development in this new thread. The MPT Has Passed Acceptance Test and is Ready for Serial Production

@Aeronaut

 

[revojam]

@Aeronaut I just watched this video and it said that the rifles final form has not been revealed yet and that it will be reveled in May at IDEF. The reason why they didn't reveal it was because Heckler and Koch company accused MKE of copying the HK 416 in response MKE said that the rifles final form hasn't even been revealed yet so that accusation is false.

Yerli piyade tüfeği görücüye çıkıyor - AHaber - Web TV - Türkiye - 12 Mart 2014

@xenon54 @Baykuş @xxxKULxxx @Sinan @T-123456 @Neptune @revojam @olcayt0 if you have time can you confirm that my translation/understanding is correct?

In that video they are talking about canceled Mehmetcik-1 project not MPT probably video itself is at least a year old.

 

[Hakan]

In that video they are talking about canceled Mehmetcik-1 project not MPT probably video itself is at least a year old.

Your right the lira was 1.7 something when the video was made.

 

[BordoEnes]

*snif* Do you smell that? its smells like bullsh!t

 

[Hakan]

Currently to me it looks like the standard rifle of the Turkish Army is the HK-33 (5.56) instead of the G-3 (7.62). So this leads me to the question as to why they would switch from 7.62 to 5.56 and then back to 7.62.

 

[Hakan]

ANKARA — Mehmetcik, a new assault rifle that will be used by the Turkish military, has passed rounds of tests, and a serial production contract is in the offing, procurement officials have said.

Mehmetcik will replace 500,000 aging G3 rifles used in the Turkish military. It will be used by both regular infantry and Special Forces.

State-run ammunition specialist MKE has started a pilot production of a batch of 200 Mehmetcik rifles, one procurement official said.

Under a 2009 contract with the country’s procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries, MKE started to develop a light, efficient and modular rifle.

The new rifle is a modified version of the German Heckler & Koch HK 416. It is an 8-pound, 5.56mm weapon with mounting rails for scopes and a hand grip forward of the magazine. It uses 30-round magazines.

New Turkish Rifle Passes Tests | Defense News | defensenews.com