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Well that's a K2 Black Panther and that's being currently used by the The Republic of Korean Armed Forces since 2014, a modernised effort of the K1 Black Panther. It was apparently designed off of the XM1, a M1A1 Prototype tank. The reason being is that they had no experience in designing Modern Main Battle Tanks so resulted to looking at foreign MBT designs for influence. The original idea was to purchase M60A1 Patton tanks but that was refused by the United States. They needed a more modern tank as they had outdated M47 and M48 Patton tanks versus North Korea's T-62 which they had more of and was more technologically advanced to current tanks in South Korea's possession. There was also an effort to purchase Leopard 1's or manufacture Leo 1's in South Korea but soon found out it was pointless seeing the development of Leopard 2's and M1A2's in the near future.
M47 Patton
M48 Patton
M60A1 Patton
K1 MBT
And here is a picture of the XM1 M1A1 Prototype tank.
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Awww, I was hoping it would say:
"Power of a AK-47, Accuracy of a M16, Quality of a H&KG36"