Time for shifting gears? Had anyone dared predict, only a few years ago, that the main battle tank would no longer be regarded as the focal point of the mechanised armed forces in the Western World, that very same person would have been looked upon as a serious psychiatric case. The facts are clear today, though: the main battle tank market has simple plummeted.

Armada International › Vol. 27 Nbr. 6, December 2003

Author: Biass, Eric H.

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Time for shifting gears? Had anyone dared predict, only a few years ago, that the main battle tank would no longer be regarded as the focal point of the mechanised armed forces in the Western World, that very same person would have been looked upon as a serious psychiatric case. The facts are clear today, though: the main battle tank market has simple plummeted.

Indeed, back in 1989, no one would have been able to fathom the extent to which the fall of the...

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