No real replacement program has ever taken place. The iconic main battle tank is dating back from 1978, that’s almost 40 years from now! A good indication for that is the fate of US Modern tanks: Like the M1 Abrams. This had tremendous consequences however for the Pentagon policies (and the military-industrial complex), as there was no more incentive under the eyes of the Senate and general public to maintain a huge defense budget. Not in a cataclysmic end, but almost peacefully by the dislocation of the whole Soviet block. The nuclear Damocles sword of the cold war was lifted in 1990. NASA/AMES/FMC HAZMAT Response M577A3 (XHRV-1).Composite Armored Vehicle – Advanced Technology Demonstrator (CAV-ATD).Type 1 Technical (Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series).EM113A2 Rapid Entry Vehicle 2 (EM113A2 REV2 / SPIRAL 2).Deployable Universal Combat Earthmover M105 (DEUCE).Its model and its texture can still be accessed by browsing through the game's files.About 400,000 armored vehicles until 2016 Tanks In some ways, the early design's chassis slightly resembled the Siege tank from the StarCraft series. Much like the Raptor's early design, the Crusader also used a gold skin and completely different tread design.It was likely removed for balancing reasons. Coding of the machine gun is still present in the game codes, being merely commented out instead of removed. The Crusader was originally going to be armed with a coaxial machine gun in addition to its main cannon.Interestingly, this tank combines the resemblance of a real life Leopard 2 & M1 Abrams main battle tanks (further reinforced by the fact that the model's name is 'AVLeopard').In the UK manual of Generals, the Crusader's icon is mistakenly replaced with that of the Leopard tank.Therefore, it does not appear in the Generals Challenge outside of several cutscenes. None of the American generals utilize the Crusader.
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