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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Saturday, May 17, marked 30 years since a jaw-dropping sight on the streets of Kearny Mesa: ABC 10News cameras were rolling as a stolen M60 tank went on a rampage through the ...

In the three decades since a 58-ton US Army M60 tank rampaged across the city of San Diego for nearly 23 minutes, video recorded that day has lost none of its power to shock. Scores of cars ...