Citations:main battle tank

English citations of main battle tank

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• 1955, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1956, Hearings Before ...84-1, on H.R. 6042, Appropriations Committee, United States, Senate, Congress, p 672.

  . . . but the main battle tank is the M-48 tank.

• 1957, New Materiel Requirement, Main Battle Tank, Published by Headquarters, United States Continental Army Command.[1]

  [title] New Materiel Requirement, Main Battle Tank

• 1960, Commonwealth Survey, Reference Division, Great Britain Central Office of Information, p 169.

  Army: The development of the successor to the Centurion as the main battle tank is proceeding well.

• 1977, Geoffrey Lee Williams, The Permanent Alliance: The European-American Partnership, 1949-1984, p 326, Brill. →ISBN.

  . . . ; the United states agreed to enter a modified German Leopard II in its competition for a main battle tank: the Leopard II could then compete against the winner of the XMI competition.

• 1985, Martin L. Van Ceveld, Command in War, p 234, Harvard University Press. →ISBN.

  The growing managerial and logistic burden that ensued is perhaps best expressed in terms of cost: in 1965 a main battle tank or fighter bomber, for instance, was between ten and twenty times as expensive as its World War II predecessor.

• 1990, Edward L. Daily, The Legacy of Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry in Korea, p 125, Turner. →ISBN.

  The Russian T-34/85, the Soviet main battle tank of World War II, which appeared in final form during the winter of 1943–1944, remained the Communist battle tank throughout.

• 2002, Patrick Wright, Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine, p 429. →ISBN.

  Many have expressed doubts, suggesting that the main battle tank is a cumbersome anachronism that should have died with the twentieth century – a logistical nightmare, which is increasingly threatened by advances in helicopter and missile technology.

• 2004, David L. Shambaugh, Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects, p 253, University of California Press. →ISBN.

  A decade later, China began to build prototypes of its first indigenously designed main battle tank (MBT), designated the T-69.