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Cold War

This video has a good view of the key/groove on the gun/launcher system mentioned in the Sheridan video above. A major contributor to the failure of the M60A2 and the Sheridan as the groove cut inside the gun barrel was a major weak point which resulted in cracked gun barrels.
 
Royal Marines exercise 'Codename Snake Eyes' 1960 documentary by the Central Office of Information for the Admiralty. The exercise involves an amphibious attack on a fictitious Mediterranean island nation.
 
Cuban anti-aircraft gun in front of the Hotel Riviera, Havana.
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Flakpanzer Gepard during evaluation trials at Fort Bliss, 1974

Who knew that FIFTY years later this same piece of kit would be highly effective shooting down drones in the Russo-Ukrainian war!

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I'm guessing the tracking system has been upgraded since then but, yeah, 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it'
 
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