I hope you'll humor me to some extent with the following.This exercise is another example of the issues that Don and I just love to deal with when it comes to new equipment.
So by the numbers if you will and this will be the short version as long as you remember we've already had some mileage "
down the road" with this MBT prior to 1) below...
1) I would respectfully ask you to visit
Post 632/Item 1 and read it.
2) Of course you would do well to read all of the REF. below if your interested in this MBT or the development and procurement of such equipment. But, for the sake of this exercise, and for context, please go to the following section
CONTRACTS and KEY EVENTS 2016-2017.
3) Read the
April 13/17 entry first.
4) Now read the
June 16/17 entry. I have provided below as REF 2 the highlighted portion of this section. As a reminder with this site those highlighted portions link you to a source document.
And if you don't feel like it and you trust me enough here's just a quick break down of 1-4 above.
1) Discussed issues related to the development and production issues for this MBT with multiple refs to support the discussion. Conclusion was to push in service date back to
JUN/2018 vice current in service date.
3) Bottom line "
All is well!" with serial production to begin in
MAY/2017 which makes the
JUN 2018 in service date plausible.
4) Magically "
All is not well!" and as it would turn out in REF 2. below the same issues I pointed out in
POST 632 haven't been fully addressed and the news now is
OTOKAR has lost the contract as the single source manufacturer of this MBT, so that Turkey in not accepting the bid, has opened it up to competition which they
hope will be concluded by the end of this year.
Don sorry but, prudence now dictates an in service date of no sooner then
JAN/2019 or
maybe better APRIL/2019.
This is an example of ownership and followup when submitting equipment. Don can correct me and I have all my submissions but, I believe this was submitted by me about 4-5 years ago.
Anyway...
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...project-05012/
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/...News%20Roundup
I'm trying hard to "
gear up" but I have to be honest and say besides my personal issues at the time, this type of thing was a
minor reason on top of everything else for my "
vacation" in doing my submissions.
I can at this time
easily and "
for real" say-Don I have at least 20 pieces of new equipment for the following countries, this what it is, when they think it'll be in service, here's a ref or two and I even got you some good pictures to go with it.
And as we did a few years, I guarantee you at least five or more would need to be deleted. We've seen it here before.
Oh before I go found this earlier tonight from JANE'S this concerns Russian
UNIT 879/BMPT. They are reporting that Russia cancelled the program. If you go with it you got at least one more slot back or more. Para 2 goes directly to the issue.
http://www.janes.com/article/71842/n...layed-in-syria
See what I mean?
JUST TRYING TO
"STAY IN MY THREE FOOT WORLD".
Regards,
Pat
