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 ...

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 ...