“During the long days at Fort Hood, Elvis was in the middle of advanced individual training, learning to be a tanker. This was Patton’s division, and they trained on the sixty-ton M48 Patton Tank.

Their arrival was an enormous military boon to the forces of South Vietnam, whose allies in the field were armed with formidable equipment like the M48 Patton tank. The Patton, in particular ...

This resulted in the introduction of the M48 Patton. However, like the previous U.S. tanks, the M48 was also designed hurriedly and rushed into production – in part due to the fact that the ...

Patton tanks, the M48 Patton in particular, are good examples of this. One specific model, first unleashed in 1952, was equipped with mod-cons (or what qualified as such for the tank crews of the ...

Wearing personalized “SDF6 tank paint crew” shirts, eight members from various Shepherdsville Amazon Warrior shops worked together to paint one of the historic M48 Patton tanks along Fort Knox ...

This particular report tells the story of the T-48 project that culminated in the 90mm M48 Patton tank. The film opens by providing a brief history of tanks and the lessons learned about them ...

MUSKEGON, MI — Motorists driving past RENK America will see two classic Patton tanks - an M47 and M48. Army veteran Robert Bowyer oversaw the project to restore and display the tanks prominently ...

The tank had one mission: beat the Soviet Union on any battlefield or its proxy forces. Key Point #1 - Entering service in 1960, it improved upon the M48 Patton with a 105mm M68 gun, better armor ...

A Cold War-era tank that has sat outside of a South Carolina military base for years just got a much-needed makeover. An M48 Patton tank, which was the model introduced to the Army in the 1950s ...

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

Crane operations contractors carried out a heavy lift and rig operation on an M48 Patton tank Dec. 19, 2019, in front of Patton Hall, USARCENT headquarters, at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter ...

From a Russian riot control tank to the mighty M60A3 Patton Tank (that you can climb in), expect to be amazed. The M60 Patton Tank was built after the M48 Patton as an upgrade to match the Soviets ...