Summary and Key Points: In the 1960s, the United States and West Germany partnered to develop the MBT-70, an advanced main battle tank intended to replace both the American M60 Patton and the ...

Russia’s main battle tank fleet continues to take major hits. According to Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, ...

The T-80 is a Problem-Plagued MBT. The heart of the problem is that the T-80 was largely a step sideways at best in tank evolution, as it was derived not from the T-72 but rather from the T-64.

The first Type 90 unit was revealed by the PLA in 1991, but insufficient performance and the release of the Russian T-80 MBT served as grounds for an overall project re-evaluation by PLA weapons ...

The main gun fitted to this joint tank was an impressive 152mm cannon, a serious improvement from the then-standard 105mm main gun. An overview of the MBT-70’s shortcomings ...