Editing RDF/LT (section)

==In Real Life==
If you count the York, this is the second American Team Yankee vehicle to be lifted from a paper design that never went into mass production and existed only as a prototype. Unlike the York which had major design issues, the RDF/LT was rejected mostly on a logistical basis since its primary weapon was a different caliber to other US tanks of the time.

This was one of many projects to try to replace the Sheridan and fill a perceived gap for an air-transportable light direct fire platform.  The RDF/LT depicted here represents the 80's iteration of this initiative. By the time of the Gulf War, the design had changed to mount a larger 105 mm gun, and some early demo vehicles had been produced; an effort was made to field those prototypes against Iraq as the M8 but this ultimately didn't happen. The turret from that project was later redesigned to use on the Stryker as the short-lived mobile gun system. 

{{US Forces in Team Yankee}}