At the meeting in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, 8th International Exhibition of Arms and Military Equipment Indo Defense 2018, Indonesian military demonstrated some achievements of the national defense industry, including medium tank was presented Harimau, transmits bmpd.
The Indonesian military said, that the test of a new medium tank, developed jointly with the Turkish side, completed and ready for serial production. I do not quite understand the contribution of the Indonesian side in this project, as the body and chassis of the tank is completely created by the Turks, a turret – Belgian. The tank is installed a 105 mm rifled gun Belgian paired with a 7.62 mm machine gun. Installed automatic loading drum-type 12 shots, yet 30 shots are laying in the machine housing.
Crew 3 man. welded housing, made of steel armor, providing protection against circumferential 14.5 mm armor piercing bullets. With the application of additional armor protected 25-mm projectiles (in the frontal projection of 30 mm). The bottom and provides enhanced protection from mine 10 kg charge.
unknown, which engine will be installed on production machines, but on prototypes installed diesel power Saterpillar C13 711 HP. with automatic transmission, for maximum speed on highway 76 km / h and the stock moves up 450 km. According to the developers tank can overcome a ford deep 1,2 m, wide moat 2 m and height wall 0,9 m
In the first stage, the Defense Ministry plans to buy Indonesia 44 tank with a mounting in series 20-25 tanks until the end 2018 of the year. In total it is planned to put into the armed forces 400 medium tanks Harimau.
