NEW ALTAY TANKS WERE DELIVERED TO TAF FOR TESTING WITH A CEREMONY ATTENDED BY PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN

At the Arifiye Campus of the Ministry of National Defense, the President of the Republic, Mr With the ceremony held with the participation of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 2 The New Altay tanks were delivered to the Turkish Armed Forces for testing.

24.04.2023

At the end of a 25-year in Türkiye, the first domestic and national tank has been produced by BMC and has become available to our Turkish Armed Forces.

Turkish engineers, who worked at BMC and many leading companies in our defence industry, worked with great devotion to implementing the New Altay tank project with technology, innovation and R&D. Within the scope of the project carried out by BMC to meet the modern tank needs of the Turkish Armed Forces with domestic and national means, many parts were localized in the New Altay tank, which was equipped with the most modern technologies and additional capabilities today's battlefield area conditions.

Among the new capabilities added to the New Altay tank are the active protection system, improved armour system, renewed fire control system, renewed vehicle control system, changed power group and many localized subsystems. The New Altay tank will also be brought together with the BATU power group, which is produced entirely locally and nationally by BMC Power and will be added to the land defence system of Türkiye by adding strength to its power.