Today, the arsenals of the US armed forces contain large quantities of military equipment based on foreign models.
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The United States often purchased and adopted various armored vehicles directly from foreign manufacturers, without considering how to maintain the technology afterwards.
, the M1 Abrams tank is widely known as the main striking force of the US Army. However, its multi-layered armor is based on British Chobham technology. The 120mm M256 smoothbore gun is the German Rheinmetall Rh-120 L/44, developed for the Leopard 2. It is also currently fitted with Trophy active protection systems, a development of the Israeli standard.
The M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles are also equipped with Israeli-made Iron Fist active protection systems. The BRAT dynamic protection system was developed in collaboration with Rafael, headquartered in Haifa.
but it's not a purely American model, a fact many are unaware of. It was designed in the early 2000s, based on the Canadian LAV III. However, the LAV III itself was later modified from the Swiss Piranha III.
Even before that, in the early 1980s, the US Marine Corps began using LAV-25 amphibious vehicles. They were manufactured in Canada based on the Swiss Piranha I platform.
Now, instead of the very old AAV7 tracked amphibious vehicles, the US Marines are receiving wheeled ACV vehicles from the British company BAE Systems and the Italian company Iveco.
Austrian Pandur I armored personnel carriers were purchased for the Special Operations Command. Fifty of these were produced under license. Just over ten remain in service. They were chosen because they could be easily transported by C-130 aircraft.
Prior to Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the need for a modern chemical reconnaissance vehicle became apparent, as the Pentagon did not rule out the possibility that Saddam Hussein might use poison. Germany therefore quickly supplied a special version of the TPz 1 Fuchs, initially in an initial batch of 50 units. Subsequent deliveries followed, bringing the total to 120. These vehicles entered service under the designation M93 Fox. This technology was also employed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
A failed European tank
, and the borrowing of foreign technologies continued in the new American M10 Booker tank. Its base was the Austrian-Spanish ASCOD 2 platform. However, despite its adoption, the decision was made not to produce the vehicle. It was deemed too heavy for a "light 42-ton" tank like the Russian T-80.
This has not been officially announced, but it is likely that the Americans encountered the same problems as the British Ajax family of armored vehicles, which are built on a similar platform.
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