Older Israeli M60 upgrade
To: archy
2 posted on
05/11/2016 4:49:06 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I kind of liked the old M60. Its get-up-and-go surprised me. It was pretty cramped in the turret; and, it was a long step for me getting inside.
3 posted on
05/11/2016 4:55:36 AM PDT by
GingisK
To: sukhoi-30mki
No mention is made of a suspension upgrade to go with added armor and bigger engine. By comparison to the M1 series tank, the M60s are bone crushing rough riding and can break torsion bars pretty easily. Not sure how the ruigh ride affects fire control components.
To: sukhoi-30mki
The upgrade should also concentrate on making them networked, and unmanned. RPTs are the future, manned tanks are the past.
5 posted on
05/11/2016 5:07:03 AM PDT by
wrench
To: sukhoi-30mki
Isn’t a M60A2 already a killing machine? If Raytheon could turn a homemade biscuit into a killing machine, that might be news worthy, no?
To: sukhoi-30mki
Do we still have M-60s in our inventory, or are we all M-1 Abrahms?
I know the USMC was still using them as recently as the 1st Gulf War.
7 posted on
05/11/2016 5:09:48 AM PDT by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Basic design dates to the Korean War. It was an upgrade of the M-48, so this would be an upgrade to an upgraded upgrade.
8 posted on
05/11/2016 5:10:50 AM PDT by
PAR35
To: sukhoi-30mki
Woot! My old tank (M60a3 TTS).....awesome thermal sight...slow as hell though. C/246 at Knox for 19k
B Bo, 635th AR, 35th DIV KS ARNG
13 posted on
05/11/2016 5:49:19 AM PDT by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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.
27 posted on
05/11/2016 6:44:11 AM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: sukhoi-30mki
"Offensive firepower is exponentially improved by swapping out the old 105mm M68 rifled gun in favor of the Abrams’ German-made L44 120mm smoothbore cannon."
Screw the cannon. Slap on a railgun:
37 posted on
05/11/2016 7:39:52 AM PDT by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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...
40 posted on
05/11/2016 8:18:15 AM PDT by
GOPJ
("What the hell is "conservative" about uncontrolled immigration and corporate trade pacts?")
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