"The New Turkish-made main battle tank Altay " Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Feb 2016 12:29 p.m. PST |
"Altay, Turkey's first domestic main battle tank in the making, has received much interest from the country's allies including Pakistan and Gulf countries, said the Turkish Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) head Ismail Demir said January 7, 2016, during a presentation at Turkish parliament. Including Pakistan and the Gulf countries, we can say that countries that we have good relations with are showing a large interest in the tank. Representatives of some countries are being invited to the ongoing firing tests," he said, adding that the tests were extremely satisfying. The SSM officials said at the briefing that five prototypes of the tank have been produced and succeeded in tests in different spots across Turkey…"
See here
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 Legion 4   | 02 Feb 2016 4:58 p.m. PST |
Why don't they combat test in by going after Daesh ? |
| cwlinsj | 02 Feb 2016 9:28 p.m. PST |
Still in prototyping stage. Won't go into deployment until 2018 at the earliest. |
| paulgenna | 03 Feb 2016 7:51 a.m. PST |
Because it would demonstrate it is a Korean War level tank. Look at the amount of flat panels on the tank. It would be an AT gunners dream. |
| Legion 4 | 03 Feb 2016 8:59 a.m. PST |
Yes, but cwlinsj … do you think things will have changed any on Turkey's Eastern border by 2018 ? My prediction – No … |
| cwlinsj | 03 Feb 2016 10:14 a.m. PST |
I agree with that. With new Altays, maybe they can sell their Leopard IIs back to the Germans. |
| Legion 4 | 03 Feb 2016 10:53 a.m. PST |
Or they can sell them to the Iraqis and they can abandon those like they did the US M1s … |
| Tango01 | 06 Feb 2016 1:01 p.m. PST |
More stuff here… link Amicalement
Armand |
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