The Altay is a 65-ton monstrosity that is meant to counter the best tanks in the world, notably the American M1 Abrams and German Leopard-2 MBTs.

On 29 May 2024 SSB announced that Türkiye had signed a contract for the serial production of the Altay MBT and set out the scope of the project, including the establishment of a serial production ...

Türkiye's locally produced Altay main battle tank will enter the Turkish army’s inventory in 2025, the head of Türkiye’s Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), Haluk Gorgun, announced ...

Islamabad has been eying the new main battle tank as a replacement for the Pakistan Army’s legacy armor. Islamabad purportedly has expressed interest in acquiring Istanbul’s new main battle ...

By 2012, the first prototype of the Altay MBT was unveiled. Four years later, in 2016, testing was underway. During the course of the testing, several delays occurred in the program. One of those ...