TR Altay Main Battle Tank & Related Programs

[TheInsider]

Now proof your claim and don't come with videos from Ukraine.

• Altay will not operate alone
• We have several Soft-Kill and Hard-Kill systems against FPV drones

Tanks never operated alone even in WW2 tanks were accompanied by AA systems. Drones are a serious threat that can not be countered with only soft kill and hard kill systems. Soft kill systems can be bypassed by better electronics or fiber optic cables, hard kill systems can be saturated and their protection area is quite limited. Drones should be countered collectively similar to crowdfunding a project. Tanks shouldn't outsource their protection against drones depending on some nearby anti-drone systems. Every tank should have its own layered robust anti-drone warfare capability on top of independent anti-drone and airdefense systems that accompany them.

 

[Sanchez]

Why is it so expensive?

We created it out of nothing, and at the time used best stuff available on it. We didn't just make a tank, we built the ecosystem to build a tank as well.

Big delays are catastrophic.

Agreed, but Altay was expensive before all the delays as well. Otokar's bid for 250 tanks was what, 14 million apiece? Otokar also took all the stuff I mentioned above into consideration when bidding. BMC undercut them heavily, and now their costs are similar, with a 10 year delay to boot. And how do we even measure the cost of tanks and tankers we lost, and the tactical delays those losses created in theater over the years?