Posted on Feb 17, 2020
Could America's Old M60 Patton Tank Fight In a War Right Now?
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More tank info. Upgrades are keeping old M60s in the fight.
Could America's Old M60 Patton Tank Fight In a War Right Now?
Posted from nationalinterest.org
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The Combat Engineer Vehicles we had we M60 based. As the article points out, it has a very tall profile and the original armor is pretty dated. OTOH, Diesel engineers are generally easier to maintain and cheaper to operate than the big turbine engines and it should be easy to fit a more powerful power plant into the space of the original. The Isrealis and the Turks have had up gunned ones for years, so the fire power disadvantage should be an easy fix. Given a choice of no tank or an M60, the old work horse gets my vote.
Damn, I'm really showing my age.
Damn, I'm really showing my age.
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CPT Andrew Wright
Well, you might still be younger than the M60s out there in the desert. I would imagine its easier to get parts for those diesel engines.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
CPT Andrew Wright - Nope, I'm four years older that the Original M60, which was never know by the Patton even though it was a direct descendant of the old M48 Patton. They started fielding that beast in 1960.
Part of the reason that the US Army switched was because parts for the M60, and older M48 Chassis were becoming hard to find. Upgrading the engine should solve that problem.
Part of the reason that the US Army switched was because parts for the M60, and older M48 Chassis were becoming hard to find. Upgrading the engine should solve that problem.
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I don't see why not, they are more advanced than the T-72 and Russian pawned them off on allot of nations.
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Turkey is using then in Syria and Taiwan still have them. Israel used them extensively with reactive armor. The 105mm Gun is a tank killer. Can they shoot on the move or must they stop? I was a 19K but after M1a1s arrived. SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth CPT Andrew Wright CPT Lawrence Cable
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1SG Mark Flowers thank you, Mark. By tank crew told me that the M60 forward looking infrared radar was better at seeing things at night than the ones on the Abrams tank and that's why they use the Bradley to work together with the Abrams because the Bradley could see better. Is that true? SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SSG (Join to see) CPT Andrew Wright CPT Lawrence Cable 1SG Mark Flowers
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COL Joel Weeks
LTC (Join to see) When I first got to Germany (nearly four decades ago) our squadron had M60A3’s. We transitioned to the M1 about summer, 1984. I can tell you from experience, the Patton’s TTS (tank thermal sight) is far superior to the TIS (thermal imagery sight) on the Abrams. I heard long ago that General Dynamics spent far more on the tank automotive development of the M1 that they had to save $$ somewhere and that somewhere happened to be in the sight system. Whatever the reason, there is a marked difference in the sighting systems between the two.
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