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Sadly not public information. Needs to change, but doesn't.
as i know, armor made of boron is very light. if they can make body armor with the same protection but decrease the weight from 3-4 kg to 1kg, why not to do in a Tank Turret?Mate that makes zero sense. Roketsan is not going to make a new turret just for T-72 upgrades and they cannot just shave off 5 tons from the existing turret while adding armour.
Edit: Here is a news article about it from last year:
ROKETSAN offers the MZK turret solution, which provides higher protection, fire control performance and situational awareness for the M60A3 and T-72 main battle tanks. Lighter than existing turrets (the T-72 turret weighs 18 tons, while the M60A3 turret weighs 14.5 tons), the 13-ton MZK provides increased protection against RPG, anti-tank, APFSDS ammunition and up to 30mm automatic cannon ammunition.
ROKETSAN'dan M60A3 ve T-72 tankları için MZK kulesi
ROKETSAN, M60A3 ve T-72 tankları için daha yüksek koruma, atış kontrol ve durumsal farkındalık sağlayan MZK kule çözümünü sunuyor.www.defenceturk.net
hydrolic also wights a lot, which probably used here is electrical for turning the turret
you miss the huge opportunity here.. with the Thermal camras detecting Tanks from far away(TB2 is able to detect from 80km away according to officials), you need Hybrid tanks. as FNSS is ready for 20 ton class hybrid vehicle, if they work with 600hp BMC engine Azra to make a hybrid engine for kaplan tanks, thats the best tank out there. no heat signature(as the engine is behind, you can easily fit it there as the engine is not fitted just on one side of vehicle in the front and driver seat on the other side like Tulpar.
Kaplan could make huge export in the future with Hybrid engine and 105mm gun.
on the other hand, Hybrid engine will be used in E-Firtina, 1300hp, 10000 tork, i believe will be used to upgrade 800 m60 tanks with MZK turret, which means Turkey will get higher protection and no heat signature and very modern tank.
As I said Roketsan is not going to build and does not have another turret for T-72 and you just can't take 5 tons off the existing turret like that while also adding extra protection.
Not to mention, they also mentioned it is for T-72 and their upgrade for T-72 includes MZK if you look at the catalogue I'll link down below:
On the 12th page, it states:
And here is the diagram, which I shared before, on the 13th page:
They didn't make 5 tons magically disappear, they changed the turret in the full upgrade package. Main reason I shared that in the first place was to show the protection level of MZK as we were talking about Cockrell and MZK, which can be seen here (in comparison to old T-72 turret):
And, here is what Roketsan also writes in the document you can reach from its English website right now:
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What is it with the Brits sweetening 7p with Turkiye can anybody tell me. First BAE provided engineers to TAI for Kaan now this.
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Because we are good allies since 1930's to this day? There hasn't been a major issue between Turkey and UK. Most of the issues among us are the ones the US put between us.
Brexit. When Tories fucked the economy in the ass with the stupidest economical move ever, UK had to renegotiate all of its deals it hadn't in decades and had to look to increase its trade in all sectors with countries out of EU. And while it may not feel like it to the ordinary people, we are (or at least were last time I looked) one of the top 20 largest economies on the planet.
Defence contracts are always lucrative, create a long lasting partnerships and defence jobs are usually high paying jobs. If UK convinced Germany to sell us Eurofighters, for example, their of factories won't have to face the threat of shutting down by the end of the decade. When they opened this factory, they created jobs, brought in tax money and export opportunities.
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Tower? Horrible translation.
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unfortunatly wrong alarm MAT and MZK are the same ... nothing new
MAT is just the English translation of MZK.
That's false advertisement mate, title should've been "Alpar drives back and forth"
They really should show it in action, even if it is just on a target range.
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i hate all those ads for prototypes but in reality if major war break out ,Turkiye will use M60 Tanks
Alpar seems advance weapons but is nothing until is produced in mass like 1000 + , If prototypes will make difference ww2 will be won by Germany not USA and Russia
Finally, unmanned ZMA-15 or ZMA-X has shown itself
This is what we should do with all M113s and its cousins when the army finally picks a new IFV, turn them into UGVs with various configurations.
Honestly, M113 is paper thin as opposed to this one. Modernised ZMA-15 has add-on armour on sides and ZMA-X is almost the same thing, plus the unmanned control and LIDARs
