[MarkSheppard]

Okay, for some talk about the cold war mod.

Laser PDW, I don't think they would be developed well enough to be deployed until the 2010s or 2020s, evne with Cold War Budgets. You have to do a lot of basic research, etc which goes along at the same pace whether or not it's funded heavily.

Upgunning the T-xx Series and Abrams series to 140mm would be a major undertaking; I would imagine a remote unmanned turret would be picked for simple expediency, as opposed to a major major major redesign of the turret to take the much larger gun.

I'd imagine that 140mm would be phased in in the 2000s; since a lot of countries like the US etc, have fairly recently only just jumped to 120mm and would like to get as much life out of the new guns before they need yet another jump in calibre.