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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 ...

Although the T-80 was once recognized as a top-tier main battle tank, it is outclassed today by Seoul’s homegrown K1 and K2 tank platforms.The former South Korean MBT is derived in part from the ...

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 ...