By the time the disagreements were settled, the project has already suffered from several delays, which in addition to other things, inflated the project’s budget early on in its development life. Right from the start, development was plagued by disagreements between the numerous design team members, due to the differing engineering practices of the two sides. Thus, work on the joint project, designated MBT-70 in the US and KPz-70 in West Germany, began in 1964.
The new cannon presented a serious issue for the respective primary fighting vehicles of the two nations - the Leopard 1 and M60. The cause for this, was the introduction of the powerful Soviet 115mm smoothbore cannon, mounted on the T-62. In the early 1960s, West Germany and the United States began work on a joint project to create a standardized new MBT design that would meet specific requirements set by both nations.
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