The Altay is an advanced main battle tank, designed and developed by Otokar of Turkey for the Turkish Army and export markets.
The Altay is an advanced main battle tank, designed and developed by Otokar of Turkey for the Turkish Army and export markets.
Looks like an upgraded Leopard 2. Which seems not so surprising as the Leopard 2A4 is clearly the most modern of Turkey’s vast fleet of 70’s and 80’s era MBT’s. Although I reckon that right now an Leopard 2A4 upgrade program to bring up to the levels of the A7 is more important, as I find it criminally negligent that the Turkish army still hasn’t uparmored its tanks, even after the great Leopard 2 turkey shoot by ISIS near Al-Bab, several years ago? Its almost like the Turkish government and generals don’t give a flying fuck about the lives of its tankers it sends out to fight in ATGW saturated battlefields.