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In the entire history of NATO, has their ever been an attempt at some kind of jointly developed, standardized weapons or vehicles?

To clarify, something like weapons manufacturers from all the members of NATO coming together to design say . . . an assault rifle, tank, or jet meant to be adopted by every member of NATO?

Essentially making it so whenever these nations cooperate they're all using the same weapons and the like, so they all can rely on each other to provide ammo, spare parts, etc etc.

Would this even be a good idea?

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And so it fits the AH criteria . . . If this has never happened, is there any way something like this could have happened?

If so, and assuming it happened early on in the Cold War era, how might this level of standardization have affected the conflicts that did occur during the Cold War?
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