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Originally Posted by RN7
If the requirement for the MBT-70 had occurred a decade or even five years later then I could see something like your M70 developing, maybe even as an export tank. The US wasn't to keen on exporting the M1 Abrams around the time of the Twilight War timescale, and the Lima tank factory would have been busy churning them out for US military use. However the M70 might be a considered a good tank to give to US allies who used the M47/48/60 tanks such as Turkey, South Korea and others as well as keeping other tank factories such as the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant running.
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Well, again, I think this is like the YF17/F18, the USMC picking up the basic design, turning it over and saying "Make these changes, and we'll buy some". You wind up with something better than the M60A2, not so much the M1, that fits as a stopgap between M60A1/A3 and M1, since most M1 production is going to go to the Army as well.
I could possibly see the Koreans or Turks picking this up, yeah. "Definitely maybe" Taiwan, too.