11.01.2025, 15:43
Zitat:BMC Delivers Tactical Armoured Vehicles with Local Engines
11 Jan 2025, 16:19 2 mins
Turkiye
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BMC Delivers Tactical Armoured Vehicles with Local Engines TurDef
BMC has begun delivering Vuran and Kirpi II tactical armoured vehicles powered by Indigenous 400 HP Tuna engines to the Turkish Land Forces and Gendarmerie.
The delivery ceremony took place at BMC’s İzmir Pınarbaşı facility and was attended by key officials, including the Secretary of Defence Industries Professor Haluk Görgün, Turkish Land Forces Commander General Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu, Gendarmerie General Commander General Ali Çardakcı, and BMC Chairman Fuat Tosyalı.
A total of 100 tactical armoured vehicles were handed over in batches. This included 50 VURAN vehicles for the Turkish Land Forces, 40 VURAN vehicles for the Gendarmerie General Command, and 10 KİRPİ II MRAP vehicles for the Turkish Land Forces.
The 400-horsepower TUNA engine powers the vehicles, Türkiye’s first domestically mass-produced engine. The TUNA engine underwent over 6,500 hours of rigorous laboratory testing and completed 140,000 kilometres of on-vehicle testing, including NATO durability trials.
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