M60 Patton, MBT

The M60 Patton is a main battle tank
(MBT) introduced in December 1960.
With the United States Army
's deactivation of their last (M103
) heavy tank battalion in 1963, the M60 became the Army's front line tank
 during theCold War
. It was developed from the M48 Patton
, but M60 series was never "officially" classified as a Patton tank.

 In March 1959, the tank was officially standardized as the 105 mm Gun Full Tracked Combat Tank M60.
 Over 15,000 M60s were built by Chrysler.
Hull production ended in 1983, but 5,400 older models were converted to the M60A3 variant ending in 1990 by upgradation.

Several dozens of nations used these tanks in many battles like in Israel Yum a Kapur war,but it suffer heavy loose against Russian T-72,T-62 and T-55 MBTs.

It have range of 475km and it can take speed of 45km/h,its armour was only 250mm which can be destroyed by RPGs.

At this time,some of these tanks are in service for training purpose but mostly retired.
Many nations like turkey and USA upgraded them for battle use too...

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