The primary supply of the newly modernized M60T tank, an indigenous manufacturing, has been obtained by the Turkish military. This marks one of many preliminary profitable levels of the undertaking that goals to boost the capabilities of the M60T tanks by the Protection Business Presidency. This noteworthy second culminated in a supply ceremony.
Amongst these current on the ceremony held in Ankara’s Şereflikoçhisar district had been esteemed people such because the President of SSB, Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgun. The occasion additionally had in attendance the Deputy Minister of Nationwide Protection, Dr. Celal Sami Tufekci, and the Commander of the Floor Forces, Normal Selcuk Bayraktaroglu, together with different trade representatives.
Throughout the occasion, Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgun conveyed his emotions concerning the significance of the M60T tank within the progress towards full sovereignty within the Turkish protection trade. He praised the position of Turkish engineers in reaching this achievement, asserting that the modernization undertaking was a product of native and nationwide engineering prowess. Görgun additionally highlighted Turkey’s distinctive aptitude for modernizing an array of tank fashions – a ability possessed by a choose few nations globally.
In his acknowledgment speech, he enthused, “Our newest M60T tanks, fortified and geared up with native and nationwide applied sciences, function a substantial arsenal for our floor forces. Turning into a a part of the Turkish Armed Forces’ stock, this new addition evidences the willpower of our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to extend the localization ratio in our protection trade with none compromises. The platforms we’ve got upgraded and modernized right this moment forge new pathways for our protection trade. I want to categorical my appreciation to the devoted personnel of our Floor Forces Command, my industrious colleagues at our Presidential workplace, all contributing contractor firms, and engineers – with a particular point out of Aselsan.”
The modernization
In mid-2022, Aselsan and SSB signed a contract to interchange overseas applied sciences in M60T tanks with domestically produced options, assembly the calls for of the Turkish Armed Forces.
As a end result, the mass manufacturing of the VOLKAN-M hearth management system commenced, which included the creation of a fight info system for tank management. Furthermore, the required extra armor protections and crew seating had been additionally manufactured inside the nation.
The TİYK-M60T undertaking framework supervises the combination of those techniques into the M60T tanks. These actions, together with FASBAT duties concerning the tanks, are managed underneath the vigilant eyes of the 2nd Directorate on the Foremost Upkeep Plant in Kayseri.
Beneath the great undertaking’s umbrella, not solely Aselsan but in addition Roketsan, with the help of T-Kalıp firm, are concerned within the manufacturing and improvement of extra armor safety and crew seating preparations. Thus far, the Floor Forces Command has proudly built-in two upgraded M60T tanks into their armament enlargement undertaking. The undertaking, in its later levels, goals to facilitate the incorporation of home techniques into extra M60T tanks housed within the stock of the Floor Forces Command.
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