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Alternative power group selected for Turkey's Next Generation Storm Howitzer

It is planned to continue mass production of New Generation Storm Howitzers starting from 2025 with the local power group UTKU. New Generation Storm Howitzers include subsystems such as automatic fire extinguishing system, auxiliary power group and remote-controlled weapon system. BMC Defense can also carry out the marketing and sales activities of the New Generation Storm Howitzers, but the final approval is given by the Ministry of National Defense. The first 10 of the New Generation Storm Howitzers are produced with a backup power group (supplied from Korea). The next 15 howitzers will be procured from another country and produced. The tests of the mentioned 15 power groups have been completed. The UTKU power pack will be integrated into the Next Generation Storm Howitzer from 25 units. Mass production of Storm howitzers will continue in Arifiye. Power groups used in Tanks or Howitzers can be changed in the process. At this point, foreign origin power groups can be replaced with domestic alternatives by retrofitting. The design work for the Storm howitzer of the UTKU power group has been completed. In the statement made by BMC Power General Manager Mustafa Kaval, it was stated that orders for production were passed to subcontractors. In this context, it was stated that Fırtına howitzers will receive domestic engines in 2025. In addition, UTKU will be run as a power group in the near future. Until now, the engine and transmission have been operated separately. It has been announced that it is aimed to achieve more than 75% locality in the UTKU and BATU power groups. In addition, it has been announced that 10 UTKU and 6 BATU engine prototypes have been produced so far. In this context, BMC Power has a production capacity of 1,000 engines per year. The company has the ability to produce approximately 800 cylinders and 200 v motors per year. Mesude Kılınç, Head of SSB Engine and Power Transmission Systems Department, at the Defense Technologies 2021 event organized by the Istanbul Technical University Defense Technologies Club, about the Utku Power Group developed for new generation light armored vehicles, we care about the localization of critical subsystems. Although it increases the difficulty of these projects, we attach great importance to the localization of these critical subsystems both for the creation of our infrastructure and for the continuation of our work in these projects.” had statements. In this context , Kilinc emphasized that many critical subsystems of the engine and transmission were developed locally.