"Altai" is finally gone. Turkey announced the beginning of serial production of a domestic tank

The process of developing and testing the first turkish tank came to its conclusion. The president of Turkey announced the winner in the tender for serial production of altay tanks, reports "Warspot" with reference to the portal defensenews. Com. The winner was the turkish-qatari company bmc, who won in february this year a contract to develop engine for altay tank. The defense ministry did not disclose details of the transaction, while previously it was announced that the first production batch of 250 units, and only for the army planned to buy about 1000 altay tanks. Remember that the original contract for the serial production of the tank was planned to sign in 2016, but imposed on Turkey by the eu sanctions, austria refused to transfer Ankara the production technology of the engine. The weight of the tank is 60 tons, it can reach the speed of 70 km/h. The machine is equipped with booking system from the roketsan company, as well as active protection system and fire control developed by aselsan.

In addition, altay tanks will be equipped with detection systems, radiation and chemical threats. The production cost of one unit is estimated at $5. 5 million, and the engine was spent about $500 million according to the plans of the ministry of defense of Turkey, altay tanks will have to replace the german leopard 1a and leopard 2a, and american m48 and m60, the armament of the turkish army. .