However, the M60 was not the U.S.’s go-to tank in the effort to eject Saddam ... They have used them in Afghanistan and Iraq, primarily as designated marksman and sniper rifles.

To keep up with its adversary’s new T-54/T-55 medium tanks, the U.S. began work on its own XM60 prototype. The M60’s Specs Although the M60 was derived from the M48 Patton, the latter MBT ...