Citations:main battle tank


 * 1955, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1956, Hearings Before ...84-1, on H.R. 6042, Appropriations Committee, United States, Senate, Congress, p 672.
 * . . . but the main battle tank is the M-48 tank.
 * 1957, New Materiel Requirement, Main Battle Tank, Published by Headquarters, United States Continental Army Command.
 * [title] New Materiel Requirement, Main Battle Tank
 * 1960, Commonwealth Survey, Reference Division, Great Britain Central Office of Information, p 169.
 * Army: The development of the successor to the Centurion as the main battle tank is proceeding well.
 * 1977, Geoffrey Lee Williams, The Permanent Alliance: The European-American Partnership, 1949-1984, p 326, Brill. ISBN 9789028604667.
 * . . . ; the United states agreed to enter a modified German Leopard II in its competition for a main battle tank: the Leopard II could then compete against the winner of the XMI competition.
 * 1985, Martin L. Van Ceveld, Command in War, p 234, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674144415.
 * The growing managerial and logistic burden that ensued is perhaps best expressed in terms of cost: in 1965 a main battle tank or fighter bomber, for instance, was between ten and twenty times as expensive as its World War II predecessor.
 * 1990, Edward L. Daily, The Legacy of Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry in Korea, p 125, Turner. ISBN 9780938021841.
 * The Russian T-34/85, the Soviet main battle tank of World War II, which appeared in final form during the winter of 1943–1944, remained the Communist battle tank throughout.
 * 2002, Patrick Wright, Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine, p 429. ISBN 0-670-03070-8.
 * Many have expressed doubts, suggesting that the main battle tank is a cumbersome anachronism that should have died with the twentieth century – a logistical nightmare, which is increasingly threatened by advances in helicopter and missile technology.
 * 2004, David L. Shambaugh, Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects, p 253, University of California Press. ISBN 9780520242388.
 * A decade later, China began to build prototypes of its first indigenously designed main battle tank (MBT), designated the T-69.