Many thanks to DWI for the vid!
Why is Turkey's defense sector growing so fast?
Because its government supports it.
What happens when a military organization puts out a request for a vehicle and then backs out of the deal? You publicize what you're bringing to the table and you get public or at the very least blogging community support for your gear.
Lockheed Martin, BAE, General Dynamics and SAIC are doing nothing to promote their vehicles.
Its as if they're so afraid of each other that they don't realize that the program they're fighting tooth and nail for is dying right before their eyes.
FNSS is doing it right though. Good for them!
Why is Turkey's defense sector growing so fast?
Because its government supports it.
What happens when a military organization puts out a request for a vehicle and then backs out of the deal? You publicize what you're bringing to the table and you get public or at the very least blogging community support for your gear.
Lockheed Martin, BAE, General Dynamics and SAIC are doing nothing to promote their vehicles.
Its as if they're so afraid of each other that they don't realize that the program they're fighting tooth and nail for is dying right before their eyes.
FNSS is doing it right though. Good for them!
8m turning radius for a 8x8?! HMMWV has 7.6m turning radius.
ReplyDeleteyeah the more i see this vehicle the more impressed i become. quite honestly the only thing it needs is to be tested in combat and win and people will be lining up to buy it.
DeleteTurkish government has very little else to back!....and currently, they are not popular with there own public so a bad choice of example to follow...nice vehicle though!
ReplyDeleteslightly ironic that this started life as the GPV colonel, a US company in new haven. FNSS just updated the design, including the 6x6 version. GPV had a whole family of these starting with 4x4 going up to 10x10. The 10x10 sounds like overkill, but it's the same size as the polish hipotatum you posted the other week, so good when internal volume is a priority, ie keeping the vehicle crew out of the way from a med team (plus room for a decent number of stretchers.
ReplyDeletedetails of sizes and crew layouts are on the army recognition site, quite interesting. You can see the (slight) difference between Mk1 US version and the pars
FNSS PARS is the strongest contender of Turkish Army 6x6 "special purpose vehicle" projects. This is a project for ISR/CBRN/Fire Support etc.. It doesnt contain IFV/APC, overall around 360 vehicle planned.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly Turkish Army doesnt show interest to buy 8x8 vehicles, they prefer 6x6 vehicles.
PARS based vehicle "SAMUR" Mobile bridge system is already operational in Turkish Army.