Who said Turkish engine will have parts from Korea?
Korea will provide its own engine and it's transmission for the first 85 tanks. With spares it is around 90 maybe 100 engines only.
Turkish engine and transmission is under road tests on Altay tank right now aiming to make it ready in 2026 for serial production,latest in 2027
Making engines hastily is a possibility but then questions will arise on its durability and reliability. Hasty engines have been made in WW2 also as there was urgent needs. But that also saw large number of tanks made by British & USSR getting brutally beaten by German tanks as Germans had perfected their tanks beforehand whereas USSR & UK were making tanks in haste just to counter Germans.
If we start making WW2 quality items, everything can be made pretty quickly. Even helicopters can be made with 1960 standards quickly. Even planes like the ones used by Iran can be made pretty quickly as one can see by Iran making spare parts of its 1970s equipments.
Obviously, the difference between WW2 and modern items is in electronics. Computer chips make much faster and accurate decisions which gives a huge advantage in speed, efficiency, resource optimisations etc and act as a 100X multiplier in strength.
The key questions are:
1. Can Turkey make reliable & durable engines so quickly?
2. Can Turkey develop electronic controls for aiming, firing tank turrets? Firing manually like 1960s can be inaccurate and slow.
3. Can Turkey develop its own night vision, electronic communications, ATGM launcher integration into turret etc?
4. Can Turkey make its own tools to machine all the items? Even if the items are made in Turkey, if the tools are imported & have import dependency for spares, that still makes little sense.
5. Where will Turkey get the chips, circuitry, software and algorithm to do all these in such short timespan?
Making 1960s weapons can be quick but the question will be about reliability in wars when the opponent will have much better weapons than in 1960s.
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