Azerbaijan & Turkey Proposed a joint Production of Tanks Altay

 

Turkey and Azerbaijan are in talks on joint production of the Turkish main battle tanks Altay, tells ANN. Details of the Turkish proposals are still unknown. Simultaneously, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan is in talks with Ukraine on the establishment of several joint ventures to modernize outdated armored vehicles. 

 

We are talking about the factories in the BM "Bulat" BMPT-64 and BTR-4, sooschaet lenta.ru is armed land forces of Azerbaijan are about 350 T-54, T 55 and T-72 of various modifications. The Ministry of Defense is considering several proposals on the organization of foreign production of new tanks or deep modernization of existing ones. 

 

Altay tank was created jointly by the Turkish company Otokar and the South Korean Hyundai Rotem on the basis of the K-2 Black Panther. Turkey's Ministry of Defence intends to replace all the old machine prospective tanks Leopard, M48 and M60. As expected, the delivery of Altay in the army will begin in 2016.
 

Weight Altay tank around 60 tons. The car will be equipped with a 120-mm smoothbore gun, remotely controlled weapon module and the stabilization of 12.7 millimeters. About booking a tank while it is not known. Altay will be able to reach speeds of up to 70 kilometers per hour. According to preliminary estimates, the cost of the new Turkish tanks will be about $ 5.5 million.