Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The MBT-70 Tank Was Built to Fight the Soviet Union. It Ended Up a Historical Footnote Recent reports about Europe’s flagging next-generation fighter programs...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The MBT-70 (Kampfpanzer 70) program remains the ultimate "cautionary tale" of military joint ventures. While intended to produce a singular "super tank" to dominate...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: MBT-70 was an ambitious project between the United States and West Germany to develop a new Main Battle Tank for...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Launched in 1963, the U.S.–West German MBT-70 set out to leapfrog Soviet armor with radical tech: hydropneumatic “kneeling” suspension,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S.-German MBT-70 “super tank” was canceled in the 1960s, its technological legacy endures in the modern M1 Abrams....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was an ambitious 1960s joint U.S.-German project to build a “super tank” to counter Soviet armored forces....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was a U.S.–West German attempt to leapfrog Soviet armor with a tank packed with firsts: a 152...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70, an ambitious joint U.S.-German tank project from the 1960s, was a technological marvel on paper but a...
Dollars and Sense
The MBT-70 tank program was a great idea born out of the Cold War. In the 1960s, tensions were rising between East and West,...