Well that is where you are wrong, Otokar-SSB had only signed to deliver technical packages and Otokar has not shared all know-how because they haven't been had to, according to the agreement. In simple words, Otokar has only shared some Auto-CAD drawings but not the detailed production plans which shows how the assembly is going to be made, they have given the plans but not the schemes.
Do you have a source for this?
If BMC doesn't lack any skills then why did the government needed to privatize Tank-Palet to BMC especially after BMC had failed to collect all experts from some other firms who is known to work in the Tank project. If BMC had necessary skills would they ever need Tank-Palet, a factory which is already known to perform well in the Tank business.
Tank palet was because TSK was in urgent need of the Altay tanks. So tank palet came into play in order to speed up the process according to Ethem Sancak.
Telling once more again. Ismail Demir himself told production would have start with the available engines. Obviously there is sufficient amount of the engines worth production to start. Yet, however you are claiming with fancy words that there are no engines.
Where did I claim that there were no engines? I said that there were engine/power pack issue's, but never said that there were no engine's in inventory.
The source you provided in one of your previoius posts showed that Ismail Demir said that they had a few engine's in the inventory and that they would start the production with those, but the source didn't say how many engine's there were.
According to this source, Turkey is looking to buy Korean engine's for Altay:
ABD merkezli haber kuruluşu Defense News, Türkiye'nin zırhlı araç üreticisi BMC'nin, Almanya'nın uyguladığı ambargo nedeniyle Altay tankının üretiminde yaşanan aksaklığı aşmak için Güney Koreli iki şirketle anlaştığını bildirdi.
www.bbc.com
This suggests that the engine's in invetory isn't enough to get started with the serial production of Altay and therefor they are looking to buy powerpacks from Korea. Or they are looking to replenish their engine inventory from Korea. It is probably the latter going by the source in the next paragraph.
Accroding to this source, the production of Altays have started and the first Altay will be delivered in 2023:
ALTAY Tank Will Be Delivered to Turkish Armed Forces at the Beginning of 2023 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the Arifiye 1st Main Maintenance Factory Directorate in Sakarya with the Altay Main Battle Tank.
www.raillynews.com
From source: "President of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Prof. Dr. İsmail Demir, in the interview he gave to M5 Magazine, emphasized that the production of 6 Altay tanks with pre-supplied engines was started, and that the production of the Altay main battle tank started. “We can't call it 6 per unit because there is no such thing as you will put all the spare engines in the tank, but it can be 4 or 5, something like that has been started. It may be asked why such a thing was not started earlier. If you are going to start to establish a production facility now, you have to determine a process so that I produced 5 units after that, I waited for 3 years.” had made statements."
So according to Ismail Demir, the production of Atlay has started and the first 5 Altay wil have a foreign engine (probably MTU because Ismail Demir said 'pre-supplied engine's), and hopefully by the time these roll out, Batu engine's will be ready for mass production. Maybe they will import more engine's from Korea depending on how Batu's development and qualification tests go. Ismail Demir did say that have B and C plans in play regarding this issue.
Edit: Batu will be integrated to Altay in 2024 according to Mesude Kilinc head of engine development at SSB:
BATU Power Group to be Integrated into Altay Tank in 2024 - The integration and acceptance of BATU Power Group on the Altay main battle tank is targeted to be completed by 2024 SSB Engine and Powertrain
en.rayhaber.com
Telling once more again. Ismail Demir himself told production would have start with the available engines. Obviously there is sufficient amount of the engines worth production to start. Yet, however you are claiming with fancy words that there are no engines. SSB President himself tells this: " Low-rate production will start with available foreign engines which is in the stock, and in mass production will be replaced with domestic or the other-two foreign engine available to us" . After 1 year and more still there is no sound regarding to this low-rate production. Moreover, BMC being failed in Leo upgrade project, failing to make a new prototype for Altay to work on it has sufficient proof on how incompetent they are.
So far the projects which kept delaying thanks to BMC:
Altay (still counting the years)
Leo upgrade (taken away from them)
IFV (on hold for BMC to complete the tests, we are all sure just after that the tender will commence)
Turbofan (had been stalled nearly for 6 months to 1 years because of BMC's aggressive stance)
There are many proofs for people to see how incompetent BMC in tank business is and lacks necessary skills to let alone start a mass production, even to make one prototype-like product, even to upgrade an existing Tank.
Judging from this paragraph, it seems like you have a personal grudge against BMC rather than anything else. Altay delay it is pretty clear that it is because of the powerpack, the same or similar problems would've occured for Otokar or FNSS as well.
Quote from source: "While a limited production of Altay AMT was planned in 2021, uncertainties regarding full-scale mass production continued due to the power group."
ALTAY Tank Will Be Delivered to Turkish Armed Forces at the Beginning of 2023 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the Arifiye 1st Main Maintenance Factory Directorate in Sakarya with the Altay Main Battle Tank.
www.raillynews.com
Leo upgrade (first 40) is going to be done by Roketsan/Aselsan. For the rest of the Leo's, SSB has opened a tender in which FNSS and BMC are competing for (Roketsan and Aselsan will be guaranteed subcontracters). BMC's solution is a Leo with Altay turret.
Soure:
https://www.savunmasanayist.com/leopard-2a4-modernizasyonu-yeni-gelismeler/
What you said about IFV's are speculation. Maybe you are right, but I highly doubt that because it is an argument that is being repeated many times but motivated by political stances (it is used to systematically defame political opponents and BMC becomes the victim in all of this). On top of that SSB's track record speaks for itself. If TSK has needs than SSB wouldn't wait for a second just to give an advantage to a certain company. Especially considering that FNSS, Otokar and BMC are all of strategic value for the country.
Turbofan? You mean TRMotor?
The point of contention regarding Rolls Royce in this project, is the rights of the engine. Turkey wants to be able to export these engine's to whichever country they want without restrictions, but England doesn't feel the same way. If TAEC (Rolls/Kale JV) wasn't cancelled went on according to schedule, a working prototype of the engine would have been ready in 2023. But in that case, there would've been issue's regarding exports.
You are saying that there is so much proof to prove BMC's incompetence, which is very strange. Especially since the evindence suggests that BMC is competent. The engine developments, Leo upgrade with Altay turret, their IFV prototype, the ongoing improvements and new designs on their armored vehicles. And above all, SSB's faith in the competence of BMC. Would I say BMC is the best? No, I would say FNSS is the best, but BMC is very much competent with regard to the industry it is operating in.