They were also just all-out fascinated with the old Swedish turretless S-Tank, which also had a gas turbine, and an automatic loader, easier to pull off reliably when you have a fixed barrel that doesn't have to rotate/elevate in a turret. We had four of the things for evaluation at Knox too, with a lot of interest paid until the Swedes got some T-72s and their antitank ammo from Finland and did some live fire testing of the things. Front, sides, rear: it didn't matter: either kinetic or HEAT rounds would punch right through like the armour was a plywood gunnery target.
I always thought that a fixed gun tank destroyer based on a German Marder or Bradley chassis might have some applications. But I'd really hate to crew in one up against a tank crew that really knows how to shoot...and modern electro-optical equipment and gunnery computers take a lot of the required skill out of the picture. And we're getting close to the possible of a remotely operated or autonomous AT vehicle, too.
Oh well, all we really need is wheelies that can be hauled around by C130s....
You talking about the Strykers?
The MTVL was a superior vehicle IMO.