Azerbaijan's new military shipyard

Shipbuilding Plant in Azerbaijan
31.07.2009

In Azerbaijan, will be built shipyard, including the manufacture of warships.

"Azerbaijan is negotiating with foreign companies for construction in Baku shipbuilding factory, modern standards", - said President Ilham Aliyev at a government meeting on the basis of socio-economic development in the first half. The Head of State noted that he had already selected a foreign investor to finance the construction of such an enterprise. At the same time, he said, the project must involve state-owned oil and investment company. "We need to make sure that construction began as early as next year and completed in a short period of time. This should be the plant, which will be any court, including for military purposes," - said Aliyev.

http://www.vpk-news.ru/

So Azerbaijan is going to compete with us in building ships?

For the first time in 2010, Azerbaijan had not budgeted for the activities of the NATO Partnership for Peace and the Individual Partnership Plan (IPAP), whereas in the state budget for 2009 for this purpose was provided 1 378 490 AZN.

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Looks like Aliyev has seen the light and is turning away from NATO.  Probably because he knows they won't protect him.  

MKEK forced to look for a replacement engine in self-propelled guns Firtina

Turkish company Makina ve Kimya Senayesi Təskilatı (MKEK) - state-owned company, the main producer of Turkish artillery, encountered a problem related to the reluctance of the German company MTU grant a license to reexport their engines MT 883 Ka-500 in Azerbaijan.

This was announced by the Turkish Undersecretariat senior Defense Industry (SSM).

The position of the German side due to the fact that Azerbaijan is technically in a state of military conflict with Armenia.

MKEK held talks with Azerbaijan in 2008 to supply 40 units of self-propelled howitzers T-155 Firtina. Despite the fact that these howitzers manufactured in Turkey under license from the South Korean company Samsung Techwin, it used components such as power plant MTU. As a result, Germany was able to block the deal, valued at $ 200 million and the signing of which was planned for late 2011.

MTU is a subsidiary of industrial group Tognum AG, which is formed by DaimlerChrysler American and British Rolls-Royce plc. Tognum AG, in addition to MTU also owns such well-known brands as Mercedes-Benz and Maybach.

Now MKEK urgently looking for replacement of German power plant. One option could be a power plant with a production of Ukrainian 6TD. The Ukrainian side has considerable experience in installing their own power pack compartment (WTO) on foreign armored vehicles. An example is the logistics of tanks Al-Khalid (Pakistan) and MBT2000 (China).




ACS T-155 Firtina (Storm) is a Turkish version of the Korean K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer 155 mm.

Although mainly used in automatic control systems K9 howitzer howitzers, including the gun mount 155 mm / 52 caliber Korean development, most of the chassis, automatic ammunition feed, as well as German MTU diesel engine KA-881 500, however T-155 have significant differences in the construction of the tower, chassis components, navigation systems and electronic systems (such as communication and fire control system), which were developed in Turkey. In contrast to K9, T-155 Firtina has no digital panoramic sight for commander.

Under a license agreement with South Korea's Samsung Techwin, the first eight T-155 were manufactured in South Korea, and the remaining 300 units will be manufactured in Turkey. The total purchase price, including technology transfer and license for the Turkish government was $ 1 billion.

http://www.army-guide.com/rus/article/article_2034.html

Yeah?

"The engine and transmission problems of the artillery system have been solved and the alternative company was found."

I cannot post links...

"MKEK) CEO Unal Onsipahioglu told APA that the problem was on the eve of its settlement:"

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=157324

Which means it has not been settled. Throwing in a Ukrainian engine for a chasis designed for an MTU diesel is not easy. They must be talking about the Turk option...


"We have started work for the production of engines in Turkey. It will take approximately four or five years. There will be no problems after that,” he said."

Knowing Tork timetables it will more likely be next decade.

AttilaA wrote:

"The engine and transmission problems of the artillery system have been solved and the alternative company was found."

I think this is pretty clear if you ask me.

Mi-24G Superhind Mk IV.

G stands for "Gecə" which means "Night".

EXTRA

Israeli defense officials on Sunday confirmed $1.6 billion in deals to sell drones as well as anti-aircraft and missile defense systems to Azerbaijan, bringing sophisticated Israeli technology to the doorstep of archenemy Iran.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-signs-1-6-billion-arms-deal-with-azerbaijan-1.414916

Kysusha wrote:As I understood it, this is part of a deal to allow Izrehell to use Azebagie airfield for the Izrehell strike on Iran.

Definitely wouldn't surprise me.

No it is not, and that stuff is nothing more than wild fantasy. Azerbaijan have also officially denied it. Why would Israel even need it? How do you propose a such thing when all countries in-between Israel and Azerbaijan are hostile nations to Israel? Simple a wild fantasy. The credibility of the author of that article is also very low on Israeli-related issues. You should check it out and see other wild-fantasy articles from the same person about Israel. But even in that article there is no such thing mentioned (that the deal is part of this fantasy story), so not sure how you "understood" it, must be from your arse.

This is simple a business with Azerbaijan's oil money.

And please be more respectful with names.

BMP-3 with Vesna-K thermal sight.

Impressive...thanks for the pics