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The Turkish Company FNSS will produce medium tanks jointly with Indonesia 2705133.
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| Monday, May 27, 2013 09:32 AM | |||
| The Turkish Company FNSS will produce medium tanks jointly with Indonesia. | |||
Turkey
and Indonesia agreed during the Turkish arms exhibition IDEF’13
this month to jointly develop medium tanks. Under the deal, Ankara-based,
privately owned armored vehicles maker FNSS
Defence Systems will work with Indonesia’s state-owned
arms maker, PT Pindad. |
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 The new FNSS Light Armoured Weapon Carrier - Tracked (LAWC-T) platform, Kaplan STA-PX at IDEF 2013, defence exhibition in Turkey. |
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“Indonesia has chosen Turkey and FNSS because of our internationally acknowledged experience and advanced technology in this field,” one FNSS official said. He said the co-production project will come into shape in four years. “We are now working to officially submit proposals to jointly design, develop and manufacture the medium tank,” he said. FNSS has developed technology in a tracked propulsion system while Pindad has technology in wheeled propulsion systems. “Indonesia hopes to learn tracked as well as other technological capabilities with this cooperation,” the procurement official said. FNSS produces wheeled and tracked armored combat and amphibious assault vehicles, personnel carriers and weapons systems. The company announced May 21 that it launched its new tracked armored anti-tank reconnaissance vehicle, the Kaplan (Tiger in Turkish). |
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