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sequ said:

2024 and it's been in development since 2018 and the 1000hp engine since 2017. Again, with a solid industrial and technological base and a bit of foreign help any country can reach the next level in tech development.

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It is a pretty significant achievement. You can count on one hand countries that could produce 1500hp tank engines. At the very least Turkey is determined to indigenize its military equipment from top to bottom. You can see that with efforts to make indigenous AA missiles and artillery shells.

siegecrossbow said:

It is a pretty significant achievement. You can count on one hand countries that could produce 1500hp tank engines. At the very least Turkey is determined to indigenize its military equipment from top to bottom. You can see that with efforts to make indigenous AA missiles and artillery shells.

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How much of a leap though from that to design and mass-produce modern turbofans which the Turks seem to think they are going to do in the next few years.

sinophilia said:

How much of a leap though from that to design and mass-produce modern turbofans which the Turks seem to think they are going to do in the next few years.

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Unless they get a license from Rolls Royce, turbofan development in a something measured in decades, not years. Even not accounting for stuff like technical know how and engine design, the amount of money burnt in stuff like stress/high altitude testing is exponential.

On other Turkish diesel engine projects:

• 4 cylinders inline
• 8.5 L engine displacement
• 400 HP

Ready for production in 2022. To be used on MRAP's and APC's like BMC Vuran.

• 6 cylinders inline
• 12.8 L displacement
• 600 HP

Ready for serial production in 2022. To be used in tank carrier truck, APC's and IFV's up to 30 tons.



Tumosan 5.5/360

• 4 cylinders inline
• 5.5 liter displacement
• 360 HP

Ready for serial production in 2022. Contract signed to be used in FNSS 6x6 APC



Tumosan 7.5/530

• 6 cylinder inline
• 7.5 liters displacement
• 530 HP

Ready for serial production in 2022. Contract singed to be used on FNSS 8x8 APC.





Tulomsas TLM6 V6 1000 HP diesel engine with over 4000nm of torque. Marine and locomotive applications.





TLM 16V 185 is an V 16 cylinder with 2400 HP. Marine, locomotive and perhaps industrial applications.

Anka-S now with improved performance with 350kg payload and 30 hours endurance.

The payload capacity of ANKA UAV, which has been introduced as 200 kilograms by TAI so far, has been officially updated to 350 kilograms according to the information obtained by SavunmaSanayiST.

With a new update made on May 3, 2021, ANKA's payload capacity was revised as 350+ kilograms. Again, ANKA's 24-hour air stay has been revised to 30 hours.



ANKA UAV can stay in the air for 24+ hours at 30,000ft altitude with 250 kilogram payload. Equipped with up to four Roketsan MAM-L ammunition, ANKA UAV is also capable of communication via satellite. The 50 kilogram increase in ANKA's payload capacity is "theoretically" equivalent to two more MAM-L ammunition. In addition, a quadruple MAM-L deck is currently being developed for Turkish SİHAs. This releasing unit, which will be put into use definitively in AKSUNGUR SİHA, can also be used by ANKA SİHA if it is technically possible. Thus, it is estimated that ANKA SİHA, which can currently carry four MAM-L ammunition, can carry eight MAM-L.

ANKA-S, the configuration of ANKA with satellite communication capability, is the Turkish Armed Forces and Gendarmerie General Command; ANKA-B, which is the configuration that communicates over the link, is also used by the Turkish Armed Forces and Gendarmerie General Command and ANKA-I, which is the configuration that performs signal intelligence.

In addition, TAI will deliver three ANKA-S UAVs to Tunisia with a contract worth USD 80 million.

11 air defense radars KALKAN II were delivered to the Turkish Armed Forces

Within the scope of the New Generation Air Defense Early Warning Radar (KALKAN-II) Procurement Contract signed between the Ministry of National Defense and ASELSAN in 2016, the acceptance of a total of 11 systems has been completed.

KALKAN II Air Defense Radar - HBT Project includes the design and production of the X-Band Multi-Channel RF Rotary Joint and Waveguide unit required within the scope of the KALKAN-II Air Defense Radar Project, carried out by the ASELSAN REHİS Sector Presidency. 11 of the 19 units to be delivered during the project were delivered.

KALKAN-II is a mobile search and tracking radar for accurate and fast detection and diagnosis of medium altitude air targets in 3 dimensions. KALKAN-II is used as the main search radar of the Turkish Land Forces Command Air Defense Early Warning Command Control System (HERİKKS) and Medium Altitude Air Defense Missile System (HİSAR-O).


With its multi-beam and phased array electronic scanning antenna, it is suitable for use on its own or with command control systems for protection applications in bases, ports, factories and similar critical areas.

The system consists of vehicle and sensor group. The sensor group is mounted on the trailer and it is transported to the operation area by being towed by a vehicle. The operator can continue to work in the vehicle or away from the vehicle and the sensor thanks to the remote command feature.




The KALKAN-II Radar System enables the detection and tracking of enemy air threat elements in low and medium altitude air defense layers in three dimensions, classification as fixed and rotary wing and friendly force identification for the purpose of ensuring the security of the elements on the directly attacked surface. KALKAN Air Defense Radar, which has been operating in many parts of the country since 2008, is an air defense radar system that has been modified with new generation products by localizing some of the critical units.

siegecrossbow said:

It is a pretty significant achievement. You can count on one hand countries that could produce 1500hp tank engines. At the very least Turkey is determined to indigenize its military equipment from top to bottom. You can see that with efforts to make indigenous AA missiles and artillery shells.

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I'm surely again the one who ruins the party, but can we wait until this powerpack is mature, has been certified and the tank been tested with it up to the point the Turkish Army accepts it??

It has a certain reason, why you "can count on one hand countries that could produce 1500hp tank engines" and given the issues South Korea had with their powerplant and transmission I would rather wait if there are no unwanted surprises.

Deino said:

I'm surely again the one who ruins the party, but can we wait until this powerpack is mature, has been certified and the tank been tested with it up to the point the Turkish Army accepts it??

It has a certain reason, why you "can count on one hand countries that could produce 1500hp tank engines" and given the issues South Korea had with their powerplant and transmission I would rather wait if there are no unwanted surprises.

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"let perfect not be an enemy of good enough" has some merit here. BTW the issue of building 1500hp diesel engine suitable for MBT's is IMO more because of unwillingness to invest $$ than that of tech. Or do you really think that the Brits, French and Italians are incapable of building a similar powerpack with the same reliability as the Germans?

Deino said:

I'm surely again the one who ruins the party, but can we wait until this powerpack is mature, has been certified and the tank been tested with it up to the point the Turkish Army accepts it??

It has a certain reason, why you "can count on one hand countries that could produce 1500hp tank engines" and given the issues South Korea had with their powerplant and transmission I would rather wait if there are no unwanted surprises.

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IIRC, it doesn't seem like South Korea develops a lot of its own military vehicle diesel engines (they seem to license produce a lot for their smaller AFVs, the only significant one I can think of at the moment in the one on the K21 IFV (a larger variant is apparently used on the K2 MBT)). It seems that the Turks apparently have developed a lot of homegrown 100-500 hp diesel engines for a while.