EST15K Automatic Transmission Order for ALTAY MBT
Under the agreement, approximately €68.926 Million will be paid to SNT Dynamics for 90 EST15K Automatic Transmission, which will be delivered between January 30, 2023 - December 31, 2027, in the first phase. An additional 150 SNT Dynamics EST15K Transmission, which is included as an option in the agreement and is expected to be delivered between January 1, 2028 - December 31, 2030, is expected to cost €130,900 Million.
Last year, it was announced that 100 sets of Doosan Infracore product Korean PowerPack would be procured from South Korea and integrated into the ALTAY T1 and T2 MBTs. The Korean PowerPack consists of Doosan Infracore product 1,500 hp (1,100 kW) DV27K 4-cycle 12-cylinder (V12) twin-turbocharged & air-to-water intercooled 27.2-liter diesel engine and the SNT Dynamics product EST15K Automatic Transmission with hydraulic torque converter (six forward and three reverse gears). As the EST15K Transmission order has been officially announced, the order for the Hyundai Doosan Infracore product DV27K Diesel Engine will be made public soon. Signed on November 9, 2018, the €3.5 billion ALTAY MBT Serial Production Contract covers the production and delivery of 251 tanks in three different configurations, 40 T1, 210 T2, and 1 T3 prototype with an unmanned turret.
Under the ALTAY Serial Production Project, it was announced that the pilot production of 2 ALTAY T1 MBTs would be completed by May 2023, and full-rate serial production would begin in 2025. Two sets of PowerPack procured from South Korea were fitted to ALTAY MBT prototypes, and mobility tests started in April 2021. It was planned to complete the tests by January 2023 and to conduct firing tests with prototype tanks equipped with the Korean PowerPack in 2023. on the other hand, The BMC Power product BATU PowerPack to be used in the second batch of Serial Production ALTAY Tanks passed critical development stages and was successfully run in the test rig in the last quarter of 2022. In mid-December 2022, a photograph of the BATU PowerPack, which was taken during the integration trials with the ALTAY hull prototype, was reported by the press.
