To: L,TOWM
Its an Israeli SABRA MBT which is a modernized M-60. Turkey awarded a contract to Israel over a year ago for the upgrade of 170 M-60's to a similar and possibly better configuration.
27 posted on
02/07/2003 6:02:04 AM PST by
Turk2
To: Turk2
Nice. The Israelis make good stuff. Their Merkavas are world class, and the MBT pictured certainly looks to be better protected and armed than the M-60. Not that the M-60 was too bad, but if your buddies to the north ever tried something, they would be in T-80's, and I sure as hell would'nt want to take THOSE on with a 105mm gun.
The SABRA looks like it has a 120mm gun and better armor sloping. Hope it works out for the Turkish army.
28 posted on
02/07/2003 9:08:10 AM PST by
L,TOWM
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