Posted on 05/11/2016 4:43:53 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I forgot.....the most hated thing on the M60 was the damn M53 remote .50cal. that thing SUCKED!
It sucked so bad that someone should have gone to jail for it. In the USSR, the developer and tester would have been in the gulag or shot! Yes. It was that bad.
Wrong. I know thats a pic sheridan, but its the best pic of the missile I could find that would post and not give the red x pic.
Secondly, the M60a2 DID fire missiles. Trust me.
“RPTs are the future, manned tanks are the past.”
Imagine the infantryman’s reaction when he realizes his supporting armor has been hacked by the enemy.
You may have been a tanker but you sure did not learn to read. I was comparing the M60 to the M1 Abrams. Perhaps you were the "tanker" in our unit that never got dirty and came up on sick call every time we went to the field. Your claim is the BS here.
Looks like a Sheridan to me.
I was in M48A5s & M60A1s in the 1970’s. Not bone crushing if you didn’t drive stupid. The driver, gunner, & TC could always see what was coming & the loader rode chest high in the loader’s hatch so if column speed was around 22 mph, not so bad. Not a bad memory of those vehicles but I never got to ride in an Abrams which I hear has a radically different suspension.
Good to hear about the M60A3 upgrade. Broke my heart in the 1980’s when they started dumping M60’s in the ocean to make reefs (deconned first). What a waste if they need those hulls/turrets now.
How much fuel does it use?
From a stationary position the A3 could outshoot the XM1, but on the fly, the XM1 was way better.
Yes, I am that old to remember when it was the XM1. It even had a built in coffee maker. The congress said that was frivolous.
The M60A2 did fire the missile.
The suspension on the 60 series was nowhere near as good as the suspension on the 1 series.
We threw track a lot with the old 60s.
No man means no need for heavy armor. The entire idea of an armored tank is obsolete.
Then it’s not my knowledge that’s the problem, it’s your inability to write clearly.
I got to ride on and occasionally in M60A3’s (1/72d AR), though much more often in M113A2’s, and recently in M1A1 and M1A2SEP Abrams (and Bradley, Stryker, and pretty much everything else in development). The M60 is a FAR cry from the Abrams, but not so much different from the M113 from my recollection. In either case, if you are in rough terrain and drive very fast you will get bounced around A LOT. Overall though, I wouldn’t call it bone jarring, and no worse than other tracks from that era. I don’t see how you can do the engine/main gun upgrade with option for SLAT armor without suspension upgrade; you are adding a lot of weight that would exceed original design limits I’m sure.
OK. The M2 did fire missiles. I stand corrected. Was after my time. Still don’t know why you couldn’t find a pix of it though, they’re all over the net.
That’s because it is. ;-)
looks like those troopers are at Graf..
One of the local VFW posts has an M60 in the front yard.I have to wonder if the army still has any,if they’re giving them away like that.
Small phone screen and early morning of other people with stupid printer problems.
Always had a soft spot for the Sheridan.
Wasn’t there an engineer version of the M60 with a short barrel ma in gun? My memory is a bit vague there.
We’ve probably got some mothballed. If it made economic sense Obama could upgrade them and give to his “Civilian Fighting Force” to use against his fellow Americans.
Screw the cannon. Slap on a railgun:
Never understood why we don't have an Army version of the Davis Monathan AFB Boneyard. If the price of steel, or a national emergency pops up, we'd be glad to have it. Bottom of the ocean? Pfffttt....just as dumb as gun buybacks and destroying guns instead of giving them to the poor for self defense.
I mean Russia still has over 10,000 T34/85s T55s, T64bs etc. sitting in warehouses and boneyards "just in case". A Russian once told me when I asked about all the rusting hulks, and he said, "we throw nothing away. We either sell it, rebuild it, or reuse it. After WWII there was a severe shortage of steel. We will never be in that position again".
Wasn’t there an engineer version of the M60 with a short barrel ma in gun? My memory is a bit vague there."
Yes there was.
It was called a M728 combat engineer vehicle Got to see it shoot its main charge at a bunker...>HUGE explosion. We should have resurrected that gun and round to deal with caves in Afghanistan (but the range was limited). BG Weasel Clark at Ft Hood let the FBI and ATF use one at WACO.
Too bad that in a real war situation - like the upcoming one with Iran - that we won’t be able to get spare parts from China... for anything...
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