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It was zee Germans fault for withdrawing zee hull after zee Vickers outperformed zee Leopard in zee trials according to zee video. :cry:

All of these tanks were developed during the Cold War but the Vickers Mark VII Main Battle Tank is the one most fitting for this thread. Outperforming all of its rivals in Ministry of Defense trials and in the desert as well yet it would be the Challenger 1 that became Britain's next Main...

Well without a potential Persian Gulf War with a US bailout (plus being 3 or 4 years off) that contract could theoretically go forward. Plus in the hypothetical ongoing Cold War there would be no peace dividend. No glut of surplus secondhand tanks on the market and major producers like the USA...

Any details on that? Main reason I made this thread was because I recently learned about how Brazil actually developed and produced their own 3rd Generation Main Battle Tank (the aforementioned Osorio). So hearing about other "minor" countries and their developments that were largely overlooked...

Oops quoted the RAH-66 Comanche post as opposed to the Strv-2000 one... that is fixed now. It's the O140/40 Variant of the Strv2000 with only a two man crew and no one in the casemate style turret. From here... Projekt "Stridsvagn 2000" It's in Swedish but the Google Translate is pretty...

What madness is this? A two person tank... no one in the turret... I saw these designs before... in the 1991 Ralph Peters novel The War in 2020.

This seems like a worthwhile topic to discuss. When the Cold War ended... And even before then... There were a lot of projects cancelled all around the world. Now this might've been due to the end of the Cold War, or got canned earlier or just was a Cold War era project that got cancelled around...