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MBT-70: The Brilliant Tank That Failed (and Changed Everything)
Key Points and Summary – Launched in 1963, the U.S.–West German MBT-70 set out to leapfrog Soviet armor with radical tech: ...
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The MBT-70 Tank Still Haunts the U.S. Army
The MBT-70 was an ambitious 1960s joint U.S.-German project to build a “super tank” to counter Soviet armored forces. -It was doomed from the start by a dysfunctional international partnership.
It Was Going to Fail: The MBT-70 was a joint tank project initiated in 1963 by the United States and West Germany to develop a next-generation main battle tank. Aimed at addressing the vulnerabilities ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately the MBT-70 was killed by cost overruns and technological complexity. Rather than developing some design features and then incorporating them into the ...
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