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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 ...
The U.S.-German MBT-70 “super tank” was canceled in the 1960s, its technological legacy endures in the modern M1 Abrams. -The ...
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 ...
MBT-70: How U.S.-German Tank Collaboration Ended in Costly Failure The Soviet threat loomed large in the middle 20th century, influencing all manner of U.S. and European war planning, including tank ...