Exactly Frank! I now have a stash of around half a dozen MBT-70s/Kpz-70s and hope to go on a What-If splurge soon - “soon” being subject to the normal swings and arrows of misfortune(!)
The “What-If” category will enable me to overcome the technical shortcomings of the real thing as I can blithely assume they’d been fixed. I haven’t yet planned very last detail although I could almost see this becoming say, a NATO standard tank - or at least within the Central Region. There’s scope for quite a few colour schemes, although if say, I envisage the Germans becoming tank salesmen of the year, then I suppose a fair few will have to be in Gelboliv (such as the Dutch version within this thread) not that there’s necessary anything wrong with Gelboliv!
Thanks Frank for helping maintain interest. i need to get a move on now; I have a consignment of kits and figures from Sylly’s Models so no excuse for not cracking on.
Well, I imagine given their geographical locations a French, German and US one could tackle the Fulda Gap; the rest will be oop North dealing with 3 Shock Army and the like(!)
The Soviet 3rd Shock Army was the opponent of choice (well, not exactly choice) for the British 1st Corps; it was a fearsome opponent, with around 1,500 MBTs, let alone most of the latest iterations of Soviet kit. It was studied in great detail by BAOR units and a special display team from 7 Intelligence Company, with some Russian speakers, used to go on tour and visit units, dressed in Soviet uniforms with weapons to drive the point home; it also produced a “Threat” newsletter with up-to-date info, recognition tests and the like. It was all serious stuff; I found it fascinating.
I looked at that video and I have to say, some of those tests appear to be rigged! One of them literally.
In the second set of tests, the vertical wall climb, the MBT70 has a set of tow cables attached to the front. as it climbs, these cables are pulled taut by some kind of vehicle which assists it getting over the obstacle.
In a couple of other tests, the M60A2 seems to either purposely slow down or stop and give up.
Now this video is edited, and may be missing key footage that I could not see, but from the Facebook post, some of those tests look rigged.
