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this thread is for all those weapon systems that were developed and almost made it to the troops in the field but for one reason or another never quite got there. Any posts are to have the country of origin and a short history of the system please

USA:
T49 Gun Motor Carriage
The T49 57mm Gun Motor Carriage was the second step in a series of designs that led to the M18 76mm Gun Motor Carriage 'Hellcat'and was an upgunned version of the T42 37mm GMC.

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The Dornier Do 31 was a West German experimental VTOL jet transport built by Dornier. The Do 31 was designed to meet a NATO specification (NBMR-4) for a tactical support aircraft for the EWR VJ 101 VTOL strike aircraft designed under the NATO contract of BMR-3. The project was cancelled in 1970 owing to high costs, technical problems and a change of requirement.
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The Type 5 “Na-To” (or Type 5 “Na — To”) was a Japanese anti-tank destroyer class of light tank destroyers developed and tested by the Japanese Empire at the end of world war II, in 1945.
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Erprobungsträger mit 3-achs Stabilisiertem Turm a German project from 1966.

A Sherman’s stabilizer stabilized the tank’s gun in the vertical plane, while a Centurion Mk. 3’s stabilizer stabilized the gun in two planes, vertical and horizontal.

This vehicle, the only one of its kind, featured a heavily modified Leopard 1 hull and a turret that was stabilized in 3 planes- not only able to compensate for vertical and horizontal motion, but also for roll on the axis of the main gun. It also included an auxiliary 20mm autocannon, as many other western tank designs did at the time.

The advantages of the 3-axis stabilization system were ultimately not worth the cost and engineering difficulty of implementation, especially compared to a simple bolt-on 2-plane system
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B-52H with Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt nuclear ALBMs (1960). The Skybolt program was a joint program with the British: the missile was meant to be carried also by the "V" series bombers.
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