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Military vehicles introduced in the 1970s

  • M1 AbramsIn 1963, the U.S. Army and West German Bundeswehr began a joint project to create a main battle tank known as the MBT-70.
  • T-72In 1964, two Soviet tank factories began testing competing prototypes that would eventually shape the future of armored warfare.
  • T-80The project to build the first Soviet turbine powered tank began in 1949. Its designer was A. Ch. Starostienko, who worked at the Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ).