View M60A3 Patton Tank Background. The m60 patton main battle tank began development in 1957 to counter rumors that the soviets were working on a new main battle tank of their own armed with a 115mm smoothbore main gun. The m60 is an american second generation main battle tank (mbt).

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The m60a3 patton is a medium tank used exclusively by u.s. The m60a3 was developed in 1978 and, rather than representing an entire. Despite being a rather big tank the m60 can and will reach 60kph along the flat (and it has enough acceleration to get up to the 50s in just a couple seconds time), and the armor is of the old m48a1 patton but you trade the armor for better gun/mobility.

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The general dynamics m60a3 patton is the last tank in the patton series produced in the united states, and is also the last main battle tank in this series to see use with the united states military. The m60 tank, a descendant of the patton series of tanks, was the mainstay of us armoured forces for much of the cold war. It is slightly larger than the m48a1 patton, and that was already almost too much for a medium tank. The m60 (1960) was the main us main battle tank with 15,000 built until the arrival of the disruptive m1 abrams and was an evolution of the m48.