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Originally Posted by Shipwreck
NONE (with the exception of some prototypes here and there).
First MBT deployed with LRF was the Chieftain in 1971, just like it says here.
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Compare with the wording here:
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In the 1960s, optical range finders began to be replaced by laser range finders. In combination with electronic ballistic computers, these greatly increased the hit probability of tank guns. They became standard in all new tanks built from the early 1970s and were retrofitted in many of the earlier tanks.
tank :: Fire control -- Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Your link vs Britannia.
Prototypes have original fitting and not a replacement.The wording does not suggest prototypes.
Replacement means something being removed and something else being put/ fitted in its place. The optical RF was being replaced by LRF in the 1960s!
Colonel,
Read the paragraph and it is from the sub section, "Tanks". The whole paragraph is talking about tanks and replacement of optical range finders of tanks and not about Infantry weapons. The dateline is 1960s!
Anyway,
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