That imposed a choice, either modernize the M113 (making it faster and better armed), or develop a brand new vehicle altogether. The new MBT-70 and XM-1 development in the 1970s that will led to the Abrams was a much faster tank that the M113 could not follow. The very root of the M2 Bradley could be found in the M113/M60 development, the M113 infantry carrier being just fast enough to cooperate with the M60 in combined mechanized operation. So far, only Saudi Arabian operates it outside the US Army. Total cost of the program is now estimated over $5,664,100,000 () while the average unit costs is about $3,166,000. The M2 Bradley is notorious for its long, tumultuous, and overall costly development (see " pentagon wars"), a surprising long answer to the 1960s Soviet BMP-1 which left NATO baffled for some time.
So far, like the Abrams, no replacement is sought for.
Relations with Israel remained hostile - there was an unsuccessful attempt to take back the Golan Heights in the 1973 Middle East war, and Assad continued to refuse any peace deal which did not include the return of Syrian territory Hafez al-Assad took power in a 1970 coup and was elected Syrian president in a referendum a year later he ruled the country until he died in 2000.After years of secret talks, Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. King Hussein of Jordan ordered the expulsion of PLO forces from Jordan in 1970 and rejected calls by Egypt and Syria to join their war against Israel in 1973.Yitzhak Rabin served two terms as Israeli prime minister, firstly in the mid-1970s, and later between 1992-1995 in his second term of office he negotiated and signed historic Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians, for which he shared a Nobel Peace prize he was assassinated by an ultra-nationalist Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv in 1995.
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