PPT Slide
By the ‘70s, as the Cold War
simmers, the West has no tanks
that can match the latest
Soviet light, medium and heavy
tanks. And the tanks it does have
NATO bickers and wastes money on the abortive MBT-70 heavy tank with kneeling track suspension. The Russians already field BMDs with kneeling suspensions for parachute air delivery. Not until the early ‘80s with the deployment of the M1 Abrams does the West somewhat match Soviet tank technology.