The M60 is an American second-generation main battle tank. It was officially standardized as the Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60 in March 1959. Although developed from the M48 Patton, the
Original M60 variant on display at the Lewis Army Museum in 2016, with canvas mantlet cover removed
A Jordanian M60A3 firing its main gun in 2015
A detailed view of the M19 commander's cupola on an M60A1 vehicle of later production
M60 production pilot number 1 after completion by Chrysler on 2 July 1959. Note the use of a pedestal mounted M2HB machine gun on the cupola. The turret is traversed to the rear of the tank.
The M48 Patton is an American first-generation main battle tank introduced in February 1952, being designated as the 90mm Gun M48, armored, full-tracked, combat vehicle of the medium-gun tank class. I
M60 tank
…main battle tank (MBT). It was officially standardized as the Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60 in March 1959. Although developed from the M48 Patton, the M60 tank series was never officially christened as a Patton tank. It has been called a "product-improved descendant" of the Patton tank's design…
M48A2C Patton at the Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster
Late series M48A1 during cold weather tests at Fort Greely, Alaska, 1955. The main gun is equipped with a T-shaped blast deflector on the muzzle and the driver's station is under a protective cover.
Two US Army M48A1s of F Co., 40th Armor of the Berlin Brigade face off in Berlin against Red Army T-54s during one of several standoffs at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961.
Infantry of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, riding on an M48A3 in Vietnam, 1966