View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRdmSgUDaQ
Looks like the requirement was for a heavily protected defence orientated tank, employing ambush tactics (similar in a number of respects to the S-Tank), for use by the British Army On the Rhine (BAOR). IIRC, default NATO strategy in the event...
1960s
cold war
general staff operational requirement
gsor 1008
liquidarmour
ministry of defence
nuclear battlefield
swingfire missile
tank design
the armoured archives
united kingdom
G'day all
Last night I spent the even reading up on the Soviet Object 490/490A tank program.
A couple of think I was fascinated with and in vain attempted to research further into was the 'Diesel fuel as a filler of composite armour'; as well as the 'variable form charges' to have been employed...
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