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Turkey will equip the Altay MBT with its own engine

Turkey will equip the Altay MBT with its own engine
Turkish Altay main battle tank will receive a domestic engine, Ankara announced the development of its own power plant, which should replace the German engine, originally planned for a Turkish tank.

It is planned to use an engine called Batu as a power plant for Altay MBT, whose development started in 2018 year at the facilities of BMC (Turkish-Qatari company, previously won an engine development contract). Work on the new unit will be carried out by Otokar.

Batu is a powertrain unit consisting of a diesel engine and an automatic transmission.. The engine must have a power of 1600 HP. Other parameters of the new power plant are not reported., the timing of the start of its mass production is also unknown..

note, that the Turkish Altay tank is almost ready for mass production, everything rests on the lack of an engine for him. As is known, South Korea itself is experiencing difficulties with the creation of an engine for its own tank, and Germany banned the supply of MTU MT883 engines due to the arms embargo imposed against Turkey.

The agreement on the design of the Altay tank was concluded in 2007 year, the first sample of the Altay tank was presented in May 2011 year exhibition of arms IDEF-2011 in Istanbul, at 2018 the process of development and testing of the tank was completed, after which it was announced the start of its production.

Weight of tank 60 t, thus it can reach the speed of 70 kmh. On the machine is installed reservation system from Roketsan, as well as active protection systems and fire control, developed by Aselsan. Besides, Altay tanks will be equipped with detection systems of radiation and chemical threats. 120-mm smoothbore gun is a copy of the development of Rheinmetall, hydropneumatic suspension South Korean.

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