The Americans proceeded until 1971, when the program was finally canned. The Americans diverted their MBT-70 budget into the development of the M1 Abrams, a legendary tank that is still serving today.

Summary and Key Points: During the Cold War, the U.S. and West Germany developed the MBT-70, an ambitious yet ultimately unsuccessful tank project. -It introduced pioneering technologies, such as a ...

The Army Science Board, a federally-sanctioned independent group of experts that advises the Secretary of the Army, recently published an assessment about the future of the M1 tank. It also outlines ...

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 ...

The M1 Abrams is the current main battle tank of the U.S. military and has been in service since the early 1980s, but the first time it saw real combat was during First Gulf War in 1991. While a lot ...

First-person view (FPV) drones litter the skies above Ukraine. But for Russia's explosive FPV drones, there is one target that is a real prize—Kyiv's collection of U.S.-donated Abrams tanks rolled out ...

The Pentagon is accelerating the delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine by sending refurbished older models, cutting the timeline for when they could reach the battlefield from two years to several ...

For months, U.S. officials balked at sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, insisting they were too complicated and too hard to maintain and repair. On Wednesday, that abruptly changed. Ukraine's ...

The U.S.-made M1 Abrams will soon be heading for Ukraine's front lines, hailed by President Joe Biden as the "most capable tanks in the world." On January 25, Biden announced that the U.S. would ...