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 ...

Finally, the U.S. began working on its XM60 tank in the late 1950s. This project would culminate in the M60. The M60 Patton was equipped with a 105mm rifled gun barrel and a roughly six-inch-thick ...