Two new Altai tanks (also called Altai T0) improved by BMCDefense Company were delivered to the Turkish Armed Forces for testing, and the ceremony was held in the Turkish Ministry of Defence.
Attending the ceremony were: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Defense Minister Khrushi Acar, Chief of General Staff General Jasar Guler, Army Commander General Moussa Afseville and Navy Commander Elkmont tuttle? o？ General Lu, Air Force Commander General Atila Gulan, etc.
The Altai tank in Turkey is to commemorate 19 19- 1922, the commander of the Fifth Cavalry Army, General Fahuddin Altai.
The car has Korean K-2 descent, and does not use automatic loader, but adds loader, enlarged car body and turret, and added extra load wheels.
The prototype has a captain 10.3m (gun forward), a car body length of 7.3m, a car width of 3.9m, a car height of 2.6m, and a total combat weight of 63.5t The power is the mt 893 12 cylinder 1500 horsepower diesel engine and the Renk HSWL354 series gearbox of MTU- Friedrichshafen Company in Germany.
The maximum highway speed is 65km/h, the maximum off-road speed is 45km/h, the cruising range is 450km, the maximum climbing degree is 60%, the unprepared wading depth is 1.2m, and the prepared wading depth is 2.2m.. ..
The tank is equipped with a120mm 55-caliber smoothbore gun. MKE is manufactured according to Korean patent, with 16 rounds of ammunition in the tail compartment and 24 rounds on both sides of the front of the car body. It can launch Korean K276 tungsten alloy tail stabilized armor-piercing projectile, K277 multi-purpose armor-piercing projectile and Turkish armor-piercing projectile, and can also launch Israeli "Lachter" gun-launched missiles.
The armor-piercing projectile with stable tail shell can penetrate 600 mm armor at 2000 meters, and it is protected by boron carbide ceramic plate composite armor, detonation reaction technology and tail grille armor.
Two tanks are equipped with gunner sight and captain periscope, which can go in and out day and night. Even drivers have low-light-level night vision and thermal imaging periscope, and the CCD camera of ADIS driving vision system can grasp the surrounding situation at the rear of the car. TAKS fire control system, inter-vehicle navigation system, battlefield management/information transmission system and SARP remote control weapon station are adopted. The price is about $5.4 million.
However, Altai tank is difficult to be mass-produced because of German power sanctions, so it is replaced by Korean Doosan DV27K 12 cylinder diesel engine and S&; TEST 15K automatic gearbox.
The dimensions of Doosan DV27K diesel engine in Korea are1828/1060/126 mm, cylinder diameter 138 mm, piston stroke 150 mm, displacement of 27 liters and rated speed of 2700.
Standard & Poor's. TEST 15K automatic transmission The single-stage three-way torque converter has six forward gears and three reverse gears, realizing stepless steering and automatic gear shifting. The braking mode of combining a reducer and a mechanical disc brake can be used to carry an engine with 1500 HP ~ 1650 HP, with a vehicle weight of 65 tons and the maximum input speed range of 1800 ~ 3200 rpm.
The tank equipped with this power is called YeniAltay, or New Altay Tank.
What the Turks finally want is a version equipped with a Turkish BMCBATU engine and a Korean gearbox, but it will take a long time for this power to mature. Although the Turks claim that this problem can be solved in 2024, the author thinks it is not so fast.
Since it took so long, the Turks simply improved the new Altai tank in a more comprehensive way and began to localize most subsystems.
Including the updated turret structure and new large-scale additional armor, and Saab's barracuda camouflage net is installed outside.
Switch to NIDGAB gunner's backup auxiliary sight and KARTALG? z？ -II gunner aiming and commander aiming system, VOLKAN-II fire control system, GEREN-200 driving vision system. r？ Situational awareness system? AS- 100 tank laser early warning system and AKKOR active protection system.
Among them, Akkor Pulat system was developed by aselsan Company on the basis of Zaslon-L active defense system in Ukraine, and it adopted modular design, including X-band detection radar module and interceptor launching module.
Create a segmented perimeter at 2.5 meters around the vehicle and a monitoring area with an upward angle of 20 degrees from the ground. Anti-tank missiles or rockets approaching tanks 8- 10 meters away can be detected by radar, and interceptors can be fired within the optimal range of 1-5 milliseconds to generate a large number of fragments, thus destroying the incoming threat before it hits the armor.
The version of Altai tank is a turret with two interceptors, one on each side behind the turret. This time, it showed the extended phased array radar installed on its tank.
During the ceremony, the Turkish President mentioned that Altai tanks can achieve a breakthrough in Turkey's defense industry. After completing the military test, Turkey will immediately start mass production of tanks.
With its advanced armor structure and Akkor active protection system, New Altay has become a tank that surpasses three generations.
So far, Turks have made 10 Altai prototype cars with different configurations, different engines and gearboxes.
After the successful completion of the planned two-year army test, the Turks may mass-produce 40 Altai T 1 tanks in 2025. Then 2 10 improved T2 mass production tanks will be produced.
The reason why Turkey announced the delivery of Altai tanks at this time is mainly because the presidential election in Turkey is coming on May 14, 2023.
Polls show that Kemal Krechdarolu, the presidential candidate of the People's Party, the largest opposition party in Turkey, has the same support rate as Erdogan, chairman of the Justice and Development Party of Turkey, which makes his re-election prospects uncertain. It is said that Krechdarolu has secret support from the United States.
In this case, it is natural for Erdogan to win re-election through various means. It is a very good means to hold several new weapons delivery or testing ceremonies recently. This eagerness is understandable!