Since any MBT is a compromise, the process was not simple, and the Army chose to play for a competitive process, each company trying the best possible tank design for a development at the lowest cost. The approach taken by the Army staff was not to build the best tank overall, but to reach any objectives within the lowest budget possible. The future tank was to be capable of tactical superiority on the battlefield in order to compensate for the numerical inferiority. Since numerous reports from the 1973 Yom Kippur war were carefully dissected, this was expressed inside NATO as the “air-land battle” concept in 1976, formulated in 1982 as the AirLand Battle Doctrine, which emphasised adequate combinations of land and air power to deal with a considerable fleet of soviet tanks with increased lethality.
If you spot anything out of place, please let us know! Hello dear reader! This article is in need of some care and attention and may contain errors or inaccuracies. It represented a definitive change in US tank design since World War 2 and was engineered with the crew protection in mind, but without sacrificing either the firepower or mobility. The M1 Abrams eclipsed for the last thirty years all past MBTs to date, including the M48/ M60 series. Main Battle Tank – 9,000 Built The American iconic MBT
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