wibblywobbly wrote:There were only a couple of flaws with the 704 design, if the crew hadn't been so fussy about being choked half to death on the breech fumes, being dismembered by the recoil, and not being able to move around/reload in the cramped interior, I am sure it would have been a sure fire success.
I recall reading about the Arms race and how the Yanks exaggerated the capabilities of Russian armour in particular, in order to lever more cash out of Congress. The Russians did the same thing, of course (except they didn't ask Congress for the cash
). I think it was the T72's automated loading system that was a special (cash) 'cause for concern' for the US military. What they failed to report was that this tank was really short of headroom; so much so that they almost needed dwarves to operate it, and that the loading system would quite happily select an arm, or a leg, to load
that into the breech.
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
