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  • Italian Ariete Main Battle Tank withdrawn from Tank2000 tender (Nov. 3)

Ariete MBTItalian Oto-Breda decided to not to attend the Turkish Tank-2000 mega-project with its Ariete Main Battle Tank. The company will not response to the Request for Proposal of the tender. This decision represents fourth withdrawn from Turkish Tank-2000 tender after British Challenger 2E, Israeli Merkawa-III and Russian T-80.

Due to the fact of technical and financial disadvantages of Ariete against state-of the art US and European equivalents, Italian company decided not to attend further steps of the bidding.

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