Ya... still remember using a ball peen hammer to check the tracks for loose wedge bolts.... and finding the driver's escape hatches on tank trails while down range when someone failed to strap in dogging lever... and when it rained on the outside, it rained just as hard on the inside. I still laugh when people think that you are going to be dry inside a tank when it rains. But I would trade it all to back there again. I spent time on the M48A5, M60A1 and M60A3 and served in all 4 crew positions while in the Army. Shout out to all my fellow '60 Tankers out there!

A small assault unit I was in during war games in FT. Stewart Georgia sneaked in behind one of these M60’s in its exhaust into the TOC Tactical Operations Command. We noticed that every time a tank would enter the guards would look away because of the dust and debris that it blew around. 5 of us waited until dark and got behind the tank and got inside the perimeter without any incident. About 30 minutes later we captured their communications and their commander. Was the coolest thing I had done up until that day. I miss the army so much.

There were 12,000 M60 series tanks made. I only had 5, as a young US Army 2LT, in Germany, on the US/Russian Sector Border (1970). The 105mm cannon was standard for all NATO units at the time. The commentator talks about the APDS round, but we also had HEAT, HEP and Smoke (WP). It carried 63 main gun rounds.

With a good gunner and a smart TC, this is still a very deadly tank. "On The Way!!"

We used to see the M60 Tanks at the Detroit Tank Arsenal in Warren, Michigan in the 1970's. They used to test run the tanks with the turret pointed rearward and their engines were loud. They had a water tank there and full test track. Neat video!

TC on one of these '86-90. It's great to see them restored and displayed for all to see.

The marines actually did use the M60 in combat during the 91' gulf war.

I was a 19D20 cavalry scout and was crossed trained in the M48A5 and the M60A3 both were great tanks. (This is my wife's account)

Drove many a mile in my M60!

"Not an awful lot of room in that turret" What? I'm 6'2, and this tank was roomy for me. It's huge. I liked it more than the M1 Abrams.

This is like the one I was on in Germany back in 67.

What makes tanks so interesting, since I was little I always fell in love with tanks, sometimes I don't know why

Ah the M60 with its wonderful M85 .50 cal jamamatic machine gun otherwise known as a boat anchor!

lovely sight and sound

I was a 19D1O, and "cross trained" on the M60-A1 as a "loader". I'm 75" "short", and had no problems with the job. 1st Inf. Div. (Mech.), 1/4 Cavalry Troop "B" 1980-1983.

Still looking for the searchlight, standard eqpt. on 3AD tanks. (74-77). I was 2-6 FA, and 1-33 (2nd BCT) was our Armor guys, and was around for the start of the M60A2 retrofit.

The BEST diesel tank the USA built thank you for the video and thumbs UP. :)

Trained on 48s at knox, stationed illishime germany. On 60s and 60a1s served 1970 to 1973. 3rd plt 4bn 35 arm 1st AD, C co. Iron horsemen

Such a beautiful tank

To me M60A3 is the quintessential American tank. M1 Abrams is the most hyped-up one...

Sexy af! I love all tanks!

That's my favorite tank on tanktastic

So they really do squeak like you hear in the movies. Cool.

I LOVE.....those chirping noises the M60 makes...

Beautiful design

My hometown has an original M60 on display with an M48 clam shell style turret.

Cool to know these old boys took on t72's in desert Storm and won. Only lost 1 m60 in the battle aswell.

awesome!

I drove a M60 in Illesheim Germany in the 1st Armor Division in 1970s

Isnt this that one tank the governor had in the walking dead

I was lucky enough to be a tank crewman with the 185th in California

the m60 is huge I think, I'm like 5 foot 9 and I stand just barely above the track

I was fortunate in late 1978 to draw a brand new M60A1. My company was chosen as an alternate to the Canadian Army Trophy shoot-off so hence the new tanks. Other than that it was pure drudgery being a tank crewman in the US army in the early 80s.

Great!

ΕΙΝΑΙ ΕΝΑ ΩΡΑΙΟ ΑΡΜΑ ΤΟ ΕΧΩ ΟΔΗΓΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΝΤΗΡΙΣΗ

The M60 looked natty if nothing else.

fort knox trained, C2/172nd 50th armor 19E10 m48,m60 armor crewman

M60 vs t72 ?

awesome tank

هل بإمكان الجيش العراقي الحصول على مثل هذه الدبابة

is that a 120 mm gun???

I didn’t know that these tanks were used in the first golf war

This was in the walking dead right?

I was sent to southeast Asia to retrieve patton tanks and drive them the airport to be loaded on C5S IN 1975 -7

They still make these in one countries don't they?

Rip Shawn Nelson...

Trained on the Patton 1971 Fort Knox

Family tank Patton it Best of Best. M60 it alá F-4 Phantom II ground military panzer vehicles. Super camuflage. Edward, Czech Republic.

The Cherokee Indian Nation in Western N.C. has a M60 on the reservation and a few other venicles .

dünyanın en iyi tankı

i drove this at armored patrol roblox :D

The M60 is not called Patton, only the M46, M47 and M48.

I really don't know where Bovington get their commentators from. Modern tanks ARE made of metal. Laminate armour can only be attached to a steel framework. Modern MBT'S ( c2, lEO2 ETC) have fabricated steel underturrets and hulls, to which the laminate/modular armour is added. Over the laminate etc, is what is called COSMETIC armour,i.e, the outer skin which is steel.

I didn't realize the basic structure of a modern tank was not steel...

But the shown is an M-60A3 and even the first M-60 with the 90mm that would have kicked the crap of T54-55.

this would be like natos equivalent to the soviets t-55

Not a steel hull. Horizontally it presents 11 inches of aluminium

i love how the brits and germs brag about the "gun" a fucking hollow tube basically.

Ok

We couldn’t match them in ouantity ,so we had to beat them in ouality.same thinking behind the Panther and the Tiger.times change ,regimes change but military thinking is the same over the centuries.

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Then the Abrams replaced it

bir altay değil

we made quality over quantity, just ask the germans how that strategy turned out.

it wasn't until the 1982 Lebanon war, where the battle of sultan yacoub occurred and the Israeli army lost. at the time the Syrian army finally acquired T-72a and T-72b tanks, the Syrians managed to stop the advancing I.D.F forces and destroyed 8 M48A3 tanks. but who cares right? :D btw there is a vodka and shashlik party at my place tonight! there will be a lot of vodka and cheeki breeki hardbass!

The governor

Indian soldier ABDUL HAMID destroy 7 patton tanks ..from indian side In india pakistan war..

Germans went 4 the quality...how that end up

Serious flaws in the narrators narrative. I'm not going to watch this again to pick them all out. Nice video, not even mediocre narrative.

The tension on the track needs to be addressed. It sux.

the gun looks tiny

and I thought these tanks were used WW2😅😂😂😂😂

Leopard was a far superior tank of that time

AMERICANS DO NOT MAKE TANKS I GUARANTEE YOU THIS . SALUDOS

M60 was not an Patton.

Looks like the German ww2 tanks. Well. no wonder. The Americans used the German technology. Awesome looking tank.

M60 is not a Patton!

It is a turkish tank.I am greek and to the television we have see them.

Copy from German Panzers LMAO Americans have no shame.

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