First Don
THANKS for fixing and keeping the Turkish
LEOPARD A1A3-T2 in the game. I remember we had some discussion on this in my somewhat frustrating attempts to try and fix that OOB what a mess it was before I started, Don helped me make it better, but theirs still more to do. The entanglement was caused by Turkey's
unapologetic skill in designating their tanks as many as three times or more, what a mess.
Below in this this JANE's link, clink on the "
Ankara Advances..." on the Right Center. It talks about the advances made in the
APC area which is good FYI on it's own, however, this is the MBT Thread last on checked, so with that in mind, Turkish
ALTAY UNIT 614 I believe will slip to the right at least a year now based on the ref. provided no major surprise here as Don and I have discussed this exact thing in the past. We've already done this with the
ARJUN MkII at least once and I'm afraid we'll be doing it at least once more again. That's the business we're in.
The issue (Finally
!!) is the
ALTAY development was delayed
significantly because Turkey had major issues in developing their own power-plant and some lesser technical ones as well. These have been worked out and the MBT just finished two years of trials (Heed this you
ARMATA Boosters!?!) on the last day of
Feb. 2017. The ALTAY as of this writing and from the below
has not been awarded a contract to go into mass production of the
accepted version of the
ALTAY. The
ALTAY UNIT 614 game wise was to be available in
Jun 2017 and in real life theirs still and
operational acceptance evaluation to be done as well.
http://www.janes.com/defence
Read the para under the pictures in green you'll understand why I presented it in this manner. I've pushed the limit on others but, I wouldn't advise it for anyone else out here to "
abuse the view". I will download it myself for my work. On that there are ways.
I linked to a "poster" I had on Turkish tanks and can you guess where it linked to?
Me in this Thread. Just saying be careful the web works in mysterious ways.
Alright enough of that in recovering "my poster" I came across the following that some might or might not find useful in their work. Basically these are armor size comparison charts. If someone feels it worthwhile to post this (WWII Chart.) on the WinSPWW2 side please do.
The Turkish MBT one falls right in line with
SIPRI database. Those are operational dates as I'd translated when originally submitted.
I wished I'd had the APC one when I did all that work on
Malaysia's APC's a few years back. It would've saved some time in writing them up. It's much easier to interpret the data when you have some idea what it looks like though eventually I did manage to find enough pictures for Don to work off and satisfy my standards in presenting the submission of them. I believe that was just over ten vehicles at the time. That"s why Don can't wait for me to get off my arse and start again!?!
Really he lives for those submissions!!
And if your in area of the last stop by and say "
Hi!" it's that time for the annual pilgrimage. I know, but, C'mon what fun would it be to tell you where we're seating!?!
Have a great night and there's nothing better then a two day work week!!
Regards,
Pat
