Italian
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decision represents fourth withdrawn from Turkish Tank-2000 tender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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