Recent reports about Europe’s flagging next-generation fighter programs and the related industrial and political battles taking place show once more how complex multinational defense projects are. The ...

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 German ...

MBT-70: How U.S.-German Tank Collaboration Ended in Costly Failure The Soviet threat loomed large in the middle 20th century, influencing all manner of U.S. and European war planning, including tank ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately the MBT-70 was killed by cost overruns and technological complexity. Rather than developing some design features and then incorporating them into the ...