Osprey New Vanguard 16 - Leopard 1 Main Battle Tank

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Автор: Michael Jerchel, Peter Sarson

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 16 - Leopard 1 Main Battle Tank

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Год: 1995

ISBN: 1855325209

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 48

Формат: PDF

Размер: 21,53 МБ

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Development of the Leopard 1 can be traced back to November 1956, when the operational require­ment for a new battle tank was formulated by the Federal German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). The first tanks operated by the Bundeswehr were the US-built M47 and M48, which were cheap and available in quantity. But it was recognised that the M47 in particular was very much an interim design a view evidently shared by the US Army, as some 8,500 of the 9,100 M47s pro­duced were exported. With the M47 virtually obsolete, what the Bundeswehr badly needed was a thoroughly modern main battle tank (MBT), with the armour protection and main gun perfor­mance to take on the vastly superior numbers of excellent MB'Fs (as well as other armoured vehi­cles) operated by the Red Army.

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