Key facts
- Type
- Main battle tank
- Place of origin
- Turkey
- In service
- 2025–present
- Used by
- Turkish Land Forces
- Designer
- Otokar (initial design) BMC (revised design) Hyundai Rotem (design assistance and tech transfer) For others, see below
- Designed
- 2008–2016 (initial) , 2018-2022 (revised)
- Manufacturer
- BMC
- Unit cost
- T1: USD $13.75 million (FY 2025) , T2: USD $11.75 million (FY 2025)
- Produced
- 2025–present
- Number span no built
- 7 (2 prototypes)
- Variants
- See Variants
- Mass
- 65 tonnes (72 short tons ; 64 long tons )
- Length
- 7.3 metres (24 ft) (hull), 10.3 metres (34 ft) (gun forward)
- Width
- 3.9 metres (13 ft)
- Height
- 2.6 metres (8.5 ft)
- Armor
- Tank armor : Roketsan composite armor package based on KSAP Active protection system : Aselsan AKKOR hard & soft kill with electronic warfare suite
- Main armament
- MKE 120 MM 55C 120 mm smoothbore cannon
- Secondary armament
- 1 × Remote controlled weapon station equipped with 12.7 mm / 7.62 mm machine gun , 1 x 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- TankAltayT1 (1).jpg
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- service entry
- 2010-10-16
- total produced
- 250
- Commons category
- Altay (tank)
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Altay (Turkish for Red foal/colt) is a Turkish fourth generation main battle tank designed by Otokar, based on the South Korean K2 Black Panther. It is produced by BMC with design assistance and technology transferring by Hyundai Rotem. It is named in honor of Army General Fahrettin Altay who commanded the 5th Cavalry Corps in the final stage of the Turkish War of Independence.
Altay is combined with MKE made 55 calibre 120 mm main gun, Roketsan made advanced composite and reactive armor package along with Aselsan made electronics such as active protection, remote controlled weapon and fire control systems. The first batch will be produced using HD Hyundai Infracore engine and SNT Dynamics transmission, while the second batch will use BMC-made domestic powerpack.