An excerpt:
Note: Given the date and lack of dismounts among other things, I suspect that this was the early incarnation of the MIAG proposal.
EDIT: Ack, blundered on the title! I put down MIVC-70 instead of MICV-70 and only noticed it now!
I wonder if anyone with a first or second edition copy of Janes Weapons Systems (1969 or 70) could help
me track down an image showing a Marder like mock up of a US MICV design for the 1967 MICV competition.
I photocopied it some years back from a Library copy (now no longer available) and...
air defense artillery branch
cold war
late 1960s
mechanised infantry combat vehicle
micv-65
micv-70
north atlantic treaty organisation
spaag
spad
surface-to-air missile
u.s. army
united states
united states army
G’day gents
I’ve stumbled across this web site
http://doktorkurgan.livejournal.com/36798.html?thread=61630
which depicts a prototype (in 1977) SPAAG, which from what I can make out (via translation), combines a 25mm cannon, with the chassis of the XM-701 MICV!
It appears it’s a response to the...
G'day gents
Just been reading an extract from The Bradley and How It Got That Way: Technology, Institutions, and the Problem of Mechanized Infantry in the United States Army by by W. Blair Haworth
I found it interesting that "The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) conducted a...
cold war
early 1970s
late 1960s
mechanised infantry combat vehicle
micv-65
micv-70
tacom
u.s. army
u.s. army tank-automotive and armaments command
united states army
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