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The Army recognized the poor performance of the M551 Sheridan light tank in Vietnam and began the process of retiring the vehicle in 1977. A small number were retained in active service by the 82nd Airborne Division and the National Guard. [nb 1] The Army began a series of projects in the 1980s to either improve the Sheridan [9] or replace it
M551 Sheridan – US Army's last light tank, retired in 1997; M41 Walker Bulldog – light American tank in the early days of the Cold War; Commando Stingray – light US tank for export only; Zorawar LT – light tank by India's DRDO and L&T; General Dynamics Griffin; Sabrah light tank – Philippine light tank system based on ASCOD and Pandur II
When the British Army received their new M3 medium tanks from the US, confusion immediately set in, [35] as the M3 medium tank and the M3 light tank were identically named. The British Army began naming [ 18 ] their American tanks, although the U.S. Army never used those terms until after the war. [ 18 ]
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In March 2019, the Army released a request for proposals for the OMFV. [12] The Army said the OMFV will be designed "to engage in close combat and deliver decisive lethality during the execution of combined arms maneuver," and will have a 30mm cannon and a second-generation forward looking infrared system, or FLIR. Testing of the vehicle is ...
The Griffin II was offered under the Army's Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF). In accordance with the program's caliber requirements, it incorporated a 105 mm M35 tank gun and a redesigned chassis. [8] [9] [10] In December 2018, GDLS was downselected, along with BAE Systems, to develop prototypes. [11] GDLS presented its first prototype in April ...
After the cancellation of the Ground Combat Vehicle in February 2014, the Army's M2 Bradley replacement effort was restarted under the Future Fighting Vehicle (FFV) program. The Army had US$50 million unspent from the GCV program to re-appropriate to the FFV. FFV was a research and development program to develop notional plans for IFVs.
United States: M60A1 and M60A3: 178 United States: BM Oplot: 49 Ukraine: 5 more reported en-route as of November 2017 and manufacture of the remaining 13 completed. [80] VT-4: 60 China: Togo: T-54/T-55: 4 Soviet Union: Tunisia: M60A3: 84 United States: Turkey [81] Altay: 5+2 Turkey: 5 Phase I and 2 Phase 2s were delivered. To be serially ...