No one took something from them ..they lost the tenders and couldnt compete ... Others offered better prices and terms ..+ otokar is too linked with the west ... So they dont want to loss its western partners and hence billions ... this is another reason ... Unlike bmc which is going to be more...
Koç owns only 41 % of it ..with also 41%
No ... Its developed in turkey ..that is ok ..but its ip rights does not belongs koç ... And we could expect that their is some foreign critical parts .. so they cant use it in military field for fear of embargos
It belongs to ford ... They cant use it in military purposes without a permission from ford ...otokar doesnt have the majority share of the company ...if it was belings to them entirely ...they would have used it in their armoured vehicles
Roketsan finished the R&D of its armours solution recently ... So we can expect that it will be used in the project .. in the past when the contract was made it was supposed to be imported
Neither otokar nor bmc were able to provide a solution for the engine till now ... Bmc did the best it could be .. there is a very limited list of engines that suite for altay in the world.. unfortunately all the producers apply embargos excepts south korea which its engine has recently matured...
What critical tech or components does otokar produce ? They have handsome designs.. ok ..but The gov prefers the locality rate and firms that share in nationalization efforts .. in near future bmc will be a corps that produce ~100% local systems including the power group and drive train ...will...
The dumbest thing i have heard today ... even if the contract was given to otokar ..they cannot produce an engine or get it from abroad .. bmc started an engine and transmission R&D ..reached Prototyp and testing phase ... They did a great breakthrough that otokar cant do .. otokar uses a lot...
Aselsan didnt finish yet any cooled mct based FPAs .. they stated that vox based microbolometer uncooled fpa passed the tests and will enter the mass production ...it could be used with omtas and porsav ..but not with hisar and CATs