The M60 reached operational capability upon fielding to US Army European units beginning in December 1960. Hull production ended in 1983, but 5,400 older models were converted to the M60A3 variant ending in 1990. The M60 tank series became America's primary main battle tank during the Cold War, reaching a production total of 15,000 M60s. The United States fully committed to the MBT doctrine in 1963, when the Marine Corps retired the last ( M103) heavy tank battalion. It has been sometimes informally grouped as a member of the Patton tank family. The design similarities are evident comparing the original version of the M60 and the M48A2. The US Army considered it a 'product-improved descendant' of the Patton tank's design.

Although developed from the M48 Patton, the M60 tank series was never officially christened as a Patton tank. It was officially standardized as the Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60 in March 1959. The M60 is an American second-generation main battle tank (MBT). Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil WarĬhrysler Corporation Delaware Defense Plant 1959 (initial low-rate production).

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