Turkey offered Azerbaijan joint production of Altay tanks
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Turkey and Azerbaijan negotiate joint production of Turkish main combat tanks Altay, reports ANN. Details of the Turkish proposal are not yet known. At the same time, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense is negotiating with Ukraine on the creation of several joint ventures to modernize obsolete armored vehicles. We are talking about enterprises for the production of BM "Bulat", BMPT-64 and BTR-4, lenta.ru
In the armament of the ground forces of Azerbaijan are about 350 tanks T-54, T-55 and T-72 of various modifications. Currently, the Ministry of Defense is considering several foreign proposals on the organization of the production of new tanks or the deep modernization of existing ones.
The Altay tank was created jointly by the Turkish company Otokar and the South Korean Hyundai Rotem based on the K-2 Black Panther. The Turkish Ministry of Defense intends to replace all outdated Leopard, M48 and M60 tanks with a promising vehicle. As expected, the delivery of Altay to the troops will begin in 2016.
The mass of the tank Altay will be about 60 tons. The machine will be armed with a 120-mm smooth-bore gun, a remote-controlled weapon module with stabilization and a machine gun of the 12,7 caliber of millimeter. About booking a tank so far nothing is known. Altay can reach speeds of up to 70 kilometers per hour. According to preliminary estimates, the cost of a new Turkish tank will be about 5,5 million dollars.
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