Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan has pointed up a growing armor gap between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. The BMDS, BMPS and the Soviets' main battle tank, the T-12, are as good as, if not better than, any armored vehicle the U.S. presently has in use. The Pentagon is trying to surpass Soviet tank technology with the Chrysler-built XM1, which has had numerous problems with its gas-turbine engine. Only 110 of the 54-ton XMls are expected to be produced this year. Meanwhile, the U.S.S.R. currently has between 45,000 and 50,000 tanks in its arsenal, about five times...
...tens of thousands of other armored vehicles the Soviets will have by that year. But the Pentagon's goals are at the mercy of congressional cutbacks and increased production costs. Meanwhile, the Soviets are developing a brand-new tank, the T-80, that is meant to surpass the XM1. According to U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army Percy Pierre, a successor to the T-80 is probably already "on the drawing boards of one of the Soviet tank plants, where thousands of engineers spend their days doing nothing but designing tanks...