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The MBT-70 is such a fever dream of a prototype tank, it sounds more like a sci-fi tank than something from the 60's
It's main gun was an autoloading, 15.2 cm cannon that fired ATGMs and caseless ammunition, the driver was in the turret, placed in a special cupola in the centre of the tank which would rotate against the turret to keep them facing forwards. It also had a remote controlled 20 mm AA gun & a laser rangefinder.
Like, is it any wonder why this got so expensive & overcomplex (ultimately causing it's cancellation) I'm sure even a modern tank with these traits would have similar issues (mainly because of the caseless ammo, all the other stuff can and has been used on other modern tanks (although having a 15.2 cm gun/launcher has only really been done on the M551 Sheridan))
Seriously though, an autoloader with caseless ammunition? A notoriously unreliable & crude at the time loading mechanism with a notoriously fragile round? Why?
MBT-70 in a hull-down position utilizing its Hydropneumatic suspension.
MBT-70 prototype, the famous joint US-West Germany project for designing a new standardized main battle tank. Although it showed great promise and superior performance to both the M60 and Leopard I, the million-dollar-per-unit pricetag doomed the series.
Wikipedia-
The MBT-70 (German: KPz 70) was a 1960s German-U.S. joint project to develop a new main battle tank, which was to be equipped with a number of advanced features. It utilized a newly developed hydropneumatic "kneeling" suspension and housed the entire crew in the large turret. The MBT-70 was armed with a 152mm XM150 gun/launcher, which could use conventional ammunition and the Shillelagh missile for long range combat.[2]
By 1969 the project was well over budget and Germany withdrew from the effort, developing a new main battle tank on their own instead (the Leopard 2). In the US the development continued for a short time, until in 1971 when Congress cancelled the program. The MBT-70 is the failed predecessor of the Leopard 2 and the M1 Abrams, the current main battle tanks of both countries.
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The MBT-70′s 20mm pop-up cannon.
Interestingly enough, both the Star-ship US tanks and the MBT-70 used the Shillelagh missile, as did the Sheridan Calvary tanks. The Shillelagh’s effectiveness was debatable, but it is an interesting example to show that it wasn’t just the Warsaw pact that had gun based missile tanks.
A MBT-70 firing a Shillelagh, in training.
Starship tanks,related to the Patton design, but with stubbier barrels, among other things.
A sheridan launching the wire guided shillelagh.
And finally, one more colour picture of the MBT-70, the tank that never was.