Altay tank and Firtina ACS with Ukrainian engines: Ukraine even offers Turkey 6TD-4 Defense Express ukr.defense.news@gmail.com September 29, 2021, 9 p.m. 6699 1.7k Shares Representatives of the Malyshev Plant are negotiating to equip Turkish armoured vehicles with Kharkiv engines 6TD-2 and 6TD-4, which is rarely mentioned. As part of the international exhibition IDEF-2021, which took place from 17 to 20 August this year. in Turkey, 6TD family engines were exhibited at the Ukrainian exposition, two versions of which (6TD-2 and 6TD-4) offer to equip the Turkish ACS Fırtına Howitzer and the Altay tank. This information was reported to the correspondent of the local newspaper Turdef by the general designer in the field of engine construction at the SE "VO Malyshev Plant" Yegor Ovcharov. Read also: Turkey changes European engines to its own: it is planning to start supplying its own engines for Bayraktar TB3 and new cruise missiles According to him, one of the engines (6TD-2 with a capacity of 1200 hp) can be installed on an upgraded version of the ACS Fırtına Howitzer (or T-155 Fırtına II) from MKE. This engine, which we brought to the exhibition, is intended for the modernization of the Turkish ACS Fırtına. It is already used in the Pakistani tank Al-Khalid, in Thailand in the tank "Oplot", as well as in the Ukrainian T-84. we can offer it to the Turkish side, "Yegor Ovcharov said. However, the Turkish journalist was more interested in the engine for the promising Altay tank - 6TD-4 (1500 hp), the presentation of which at the exhibition IDEF-2021 in July this year. promised ZIM General Director Vasyl Krylas. However, this engine was not presented at the exhibition. Source Link