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Overall accuracy while moving is improved by 40%

Smoke Generators: This vehicle generates smoke all around it and lays down smoke cover by driving forward.ĭetroit Diesel 6V53T 350 hp Diesel EngineĪbility to spot targets behind foliage is improved by 30%.

These are extremely effective against angled armor that is typical for Soviet tanks.

HESH Rounds: This vehicle can fire special Squash Head rounds.

Stealthy: This vehicle does not lose any camouflage when moving at any speed, which is handy primarily for scouting.

The project was officially terminated in 1985. And so the Marines went for the LAV and HMMWV wheeled vehicles instead, leaving the RDF/LT in prototype stage only.

The end of the 1970s wasn’t really a good time for experimental projects with the funding being cut left and right as an aftermath of the lost Vietnam War. Regardless, despite these qualities, the Marines didn’t want it and that was the end of the RDF/LT. Despite this, the result was quite an advanced and fast vehicle with its hull made of aluminum and even the gun received new APFSDS shells. The original prototype AAI produced was armed with a 75mm Ares cannon but realizing its experimental nature, AAI opted to replace it with an older, well-tested 76mm M32 rifled gun that had been previously used on the M41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank.

The Marines needed something fast with a lot of firepower but at the same time light enough to be transported using a sling under a CH-53 helicopter. It originated in an earlier Light Tank program that went nowhere (as usual), but the lessons learned allowed AAI to develop this tank in hope of further participation in the U.S. The RDF/LT (Rapid Deployment Force Light Tank) was one of such designs by AAI Corporation. As light tanks go, it was mediocre at best and with its problematic Vietnam record, it’s no wonder that the U.S. Since the days of the Vietnam War until the mid-1990s, the standard American light tank was the M551 Sheridan.