When the
USMC tank issue first came up, I also recommended we wait. As I indicated, "I was thinking about..." that's because articles started popping up around
Nov/Dec 2020 indicating they will be gone as soon as the last quarter of
FY 2021 (Jul-Sep 2021) or first quarter of
FY 2022 (Oct-Dec 2021) just reporting is all I'm doing.
TURKEY-ALTAY: We still haven't reached
0 month for this tank (As some might remember as I posted, Turkey is thinking
24 months from
production start to delivery of the first tank.. Based on the following, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
https://raillynews.com/2020/05/The-e...k-is-resolved/
As the below refs. will show the engine problem
wasn't solved as the above indicates.
They still haven't worked out the issues of the engine or transmission as of right now. The first ref. indicates they hope to start trials with the engine sometime later this year.
Also no word on the transmission which is no surprise if you haven't finalized your engine design.
I don't intend to submit
another date change for this tank, it can wait until next year. that'll put the
ALTAY out to
late 2024 into 2025 sometime if at all.
https://www.defensenews.com/industry...-tank-program/
Those talks fell through.
https://yetkinreport.com/en/2020/12/...reign-support/
https://www.overtdefense.com/2021/01...lans-for-2021/
They should've left the Kurds in Syria alone (Pissing off the EU.) and more importantly, they
never should've bought those
S-400 Systems from Russia now fielded this past Fall. Due to that the we cut cut them off from the
F-35 and associated technologies (And moved it out of the country.) and as for South Korea, they dropped out of the program a few years ago and won't go back as relations with us are more important to their long term stability in dealing with North Korea and
China.
UK Defense Review: This has been pushed back until February 2021. So
CHALLENGER 2/WARRIOR CSP and possibly
AJAX are still in limbo.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...oured-vehicles
Regards,
Pat
