Unit Request: MBT-70

[wolf_brother]

Would anyone be interested in making this baby?

Warning: Lots of images in this spoiler

Spoiler :

The MBT-70 was a 1960s joint German -U.S.-project to develop a new main battle tank using a number of advanced design features, the most ambitious of which was a gun-fired missile.

By the late 1960s the project was well over budget and the Germans withdrew from the effort, developing their Leopard 2 instead. Development continued in the US, but the per-unit cost had risen five times, and in 1971 Congress overrode the Army's objections and the MBT-70's funding was redirected to create the more successful M1 Abrams.

 

[TopGun]

I thought Wyrmshadow made an American T-"something" tank already, but I may be mistaken.

 

[wolf_brother]

Nope. Wyrm has made a lot of WWII-era units, as far as tanks go, but no main battle tanks.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

MBT-70 stinks. I dont have anything remotely close to it.

 

[wolf_brother]

MBT-70 stinks. I dont have anything remotely close to it.

Does it stink because you have nothing close to it, or are you saying it just sucks and the other isn't directly related?

 

[Wyrmshadow]

The latter. The whole project was flawed. As if McNamara was in charge of the project.

 

[wolf_brother]

The latter. The whole project was flawed. As if McNamara was in charge of the project.

True, but it was very inventive, and very ambitious.
And besides, it would be a good unit for the civ world. I mean come, its a tank that can fire missles out of its gun turret.

 

[jatibi]

I mean come, its a tank that can fire missles out of its gun turret.

A lot of tanks can do or could do that.

However, the MBT-70 was one of the pioneer projects in this specific technology.

 

[wolf_brother]

However, the MBT-70 was one of the pioneer projects in this specific technology.

Exactly!

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

The Shillelagh... Interesting idea, but most (if not all the tanks) it was implemented in kind of sucked.

 

[19Delta]

One of those pictures kind of looks like you've been to Ft. Knox recently. They have the MBT-70 and another tank that looks similar that one. They were both developed around the same time period. You might of just took those pics from internet sites also.

 

[Ozymandias]

The problem with the MBT-70 was that there was no central design concept. Its specs were basically "Give us an M-60 only better". And the Shillelagh missile system had already proven problematic on the M-551.

-Oz