Tag: nato
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AMX-30B
Type: Main Battle Tank Nation: France Period: Cold War Location: Camp de Suippes, France The game has changed The AMX-30 was the indirect result of a 1950s joint French-Italian-West German project to develop a standardised European main battle tank. When the partners could not agree on certain specifications such as the main gun, they went…
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Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: USA/UK/France/Italy/Germany Period: Cold War Location: Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands Arms race at a snail‘s pace The MLRS was a joint American, British, French, Italian and West German cooperation to develop a highly mobile self-propelled artillery system for attacking a target area with large amounts of firepower. Compared to the pinpoint…