“Here is a photo of my grandfather and his colleagues sitting on the turret, XM803. He’s the one wearing a hat! I didn’t even know my grandfather worked on a tank until he passed away in 2023,” wrote Exciting_Accident_54.
Such photographs are of great interest to military history researchers, as very few images have survived from the development period of this vehicle, which turned out to be another failure following the MBT-70 program.
Moreover, the photo does not actually show an XM803, but rather the second MBT-70 prototype, which was used during the development of the XM803 and is now preserved in the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Collection at Fort Benning.
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