MBT-70

[thatguy96]

Pepper said:
Isn't the shelleleigh what they use in the Airborne light tanks that the 82nd has? I thought they hated them ...

I think the bigger issue was hating the system and the vehicle it was attached to. The M551 Sheridan was in many ways too light to handle the power of the missile, and so were its systems. Launching the missile had a tendancy to shake things in the turret loose and/or outright damage sensitive components. Furthermore, because of the vehicles weight the 152mm conventional (non-missile) ammunition that was carried meant that the vehicle had a very large engagement blind spot between which it could not hit a target with its main gun, but before the missile's minimum range. Of course the M60A2 was said to have suffered from the same blind spot.