In 1974, the USA and Germany signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which both countries affirmed their intention to make all reasonable efforts to standardise their tank programmes. Various types of fire-control systems were fitted in the prototype vehicles and one even had a remote-controlled 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon mounted on the turret roof. Two of the chassis were fitted with a hydropneumatic suspension but the advanced torsion bar suspension with integrated friction dampers was subsequently adopted. Ten of the prototypes were equipped with a Rheinmetall 105 mm smoothbore gun and the remainder were fitted with a Rheinmetall 120 mm smoothbore gun. All of the prototypes used the Renk transmission and MTU diesel from the MBT-70. In 1970, Germany took the decision to proceed with a new tank called the Leopard 2 and 16 hulls and 17 turrets were integrated by Krauss-Maffei (which on the 1st January 1999 bacame Krauss-Maffei Wegmann with facilities in Munich and Kassel) between 19.
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