The tank was also intended to feature a steel-layered tungsten alloy armor with an interior protective shell to support the MBT’s survivability against 105m shells fired by the Soviet Union.

It Was Going to Fail: The MBT-70 was a joint tank project initiated in 1963 by the United States and West Germany to develop a next-generation main battle tank.Aimed at addressing the ...

It takes a week to produce one steel screen and around 12 hours to install it, said Oleksandr Myronenko, COO of Metinvest Group, a Ukrainian steel manufacturer.