Turkey refused to buy Ukrainian tank engines

Turkish developers decided to install South Korean Doosan DV27K engines with a capacity of 1500 hp on their main Altay battle tanks.

The fact is that initially it was supposed to supply this heavy tracked vehicle with power units of its own design, created with foreign assistance, but this project completely failed.

Then we decided to purchase the well-known German MT 883 Ka 501 diesels, which, by the way, were already mounted on the first prototypes. However, the German side refused to cooperate in this area.

The Kharkiv Malyshev Plant decided to help the Turkish defense workers by offering its 6TD-3, which allegedly also gave out a power of 1500 hp.

In fact, such an engine does not really exist yet, although attempts to create it have been made for more than three decades. It was originally planned to use it on the Soviet perspective tank "Hammer".

Now there is only a mock-up, which for a long time they have been trying to attach at least somewhere, showing at various weapons exhibitions. Ten years ago, it was even brought to Nizhny Tagil, trying to attract Russian tank builders to cooperate, but nothing came of it.

There is still no evidence that the 6TD-3 was installed on a real tank, at least the Ukrainians are stubbornly silent about it. Therefore, such a failure in the Turkish direction is natural.

Alexey Brusilov