1970s Future Weapons

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P☆S - THE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE MONTHLY - 1964 SERIES - ISSUE NO. 139
-JOE'S DOPE COMIC
"PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE IN THE 25th CENTURY"

 

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ARMY MAGAZINE
JUNE 1963
PAGE: 76 - 86
VOLUME 13, No.11
"CHANGING CONCEPTS OF VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT" by James R. Winkworth


ARMY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NEWSMAGAZINE
VOLUME 4, No.10
NOVEMBER 1963
PAGE: 35
"Army R & D Blueprints Van Slated for Tour of U.S."
- U.S. ARMY BLUEPRINTS FOR THE FUTURE

 

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FUTURE ARMY 1970 by Lt. Col. Robert B. Rigg

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aviation-imagination-of-the-future-from-the-past.2504/post-747399

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aviation-imagination-of-the-future-from-the-past.2504/post-645054

US Army Colonel Robert B. Rigg, Flying Saucer Visionary

Flying Saucer tales that UFO history has overlooked or would rather forget.

thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/sicwmt/interesting_article_on_what_lt_col_robert_b_rigg

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/sicwmt/interesting_article_on_what_lt_col_robert_b_rigg/

 

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THE BIG PICTURE: ROLE OF ARMOR

"A TANK OF THE FUTURE?"

MODELS TANK FOR THE ATOMIC AGE AND REAL US ARMY TANK 29 MARCH 1960

ORDNANCE ODDITIES 1950s

Amphibious, light-weight , high-speed reconnaissance and attack vehicle.

Designed in 1959 by John Stephens of the US ARMY Human Engineering Laboratory.

Length : 4,30m
Width : 3m
Height : 1,5m - 2,5m
Crew : 2
Armament : 2x 40mm guns
Engine : gas turbine

Source:
Military Review Magazine
October 1980
Volume 60, No.10
PAGE: 84
"ELEVATED TRUNNION CONCEPT FOR TANKS"

SIDENOTE:
A prone bed has been designed and installed in a mock-up of an M41 tank hull.

 

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Popular Science
February 1960
PAGE: 124 - 125
"FUTURE TANKMEN MAY RIDE ON AIR"
- U.S. ARMY AIR CUSHION TANK MODEL BY NATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC.

Video: The Big Picture
Title: U.S. Army Combat Development Experimentation Center
Minute: 01:00
- "Hovertank" Artist's Concept