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Saturday, March 27, 2010

MTU supplies engines for Turkish landing ships

Landing Craft TankThe Tognum subsidiary MTU Turkey will supply, from June 2010, a total of 16 MTU Series 4000 engines to power eight Turkish landing ships for transporting tanks and vehicles.

The supply scope of the order placed by SSM, the Turkish government authority, with MTU Turkey also includes the gearboxes and “Bluevision”, MTU ship automation systems for propulsion control.

Turkey fully directed development of the landing ships, each of which will be powered by two MTU 16V 4000 M70 diesel engines with a total output of 4,640 kW (6,222 bhp), capable of accelerating the ships to a speed of 20 knots.

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