The U.S. Marine Corps used the M60 during Desert Storm, racking up 100 enemy tank kills while only losing one M60. However, the M60 was not the U.S.’s go-to tank in the effort to eject Saddam ...

Though originally designed in the 1950s, the M60 was used in the Gulf War by the Marine Corps—and destroyed hundreds of Iraqi tanks. Main Battle Tank The M60 was intended to be the United States ...

The M60 main battle tank was designed to counter Soviet armor ... such as the Soviet Sagger. Years later, the Marine Corps used M60A1s during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, none of which ...

Today, no M60 tanks remain in service with the U.S. Army or Marine Corps, active or reserve. Outside the U.S. military was a different story. The M60 saw major combat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War ...

Even M60 AVLBs equipped with 70-ton class bridge ... challenges an Army engineers faced arranging a crossing for Marine M1A1 tanks in an exercise in Korea. However, with planning and rehearsals ...

The Marine Corps will continue to upgrade its Abrams tanks and is pushing ahead on a bridging system to replace the legacy M60 tank, a Vietnam-era tank used to unfold bridges that can support the ...

While the Abrams, according to engine-maker Honeywell, can sip diesel, gasoline, or marine diesel for fuel ... times as much spending on fuel as the M60 tanks it was designed to replace.