
In the summer of 1963, the Ministers of defense of the United States and Germany – Robert McNamara and William Hassel had signed a bilateral agreement on joint development of a new main battle tank (MBT) for the armed forces of both countries. The program was called the MBT (Main Battle Tank). It was assumed that in this way it is possible to create a single tank of NATO. First and foremost, this project was caused by the appearance in the Soviet Union T-64 tanks, superior in many characteristics of the machines available then, armed with the NATO countries.
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