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If you only knew who was commanding those troops in that FTX you have in your pic...! ;)

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Here's the M60A3. It was de-milled by removing those plugs of armor, they are then to be covered with sheet metal. This is allow the tank to be used as a runner and should the tank be taken for a joy ride, local law enforcement can easily shoot the driver.

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@DKTanker Great picture of the armour. Worked with an ex-infantry guy who related the story of two of his Staff Sergeants being convinced that an entire 30rd magazine from an SA80 would penetrate a Chieftain glacis; "As long as they hit the same spot". Wish I'd had that picture with the battery at the time.

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Reg. DKTanker's photo, does this mean that we have to re-estimate the thickness of he M60's armour?

The battery is ~1.75" tall not counting the terminals. The thickest point of the M60A3's lower hull front is 5.63" or so, so it looks about right?

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Late R. P. Hunnicutt had mentioned in his books that the lower front hull thickness of the M60 Patton could vary between 85 mm (3.35 inches) and 103 mm (5.63 inches).

 

 

Does the AN/VGS-2 Tank Thermal Sight is still present ? :huh:

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This is allow the tank to be used as a runner and should the tank be taken for a joy ride, local law enforcement can easily shoot the driver.

 

Brilliant. Any similar ideas outside USA? But indeed, there are a reasons for that (San Diego`s M60 killdozer).

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This is allow the tank to be used as a runner and should the tank be taken for a joy ride, local law enforcement can easily shoot the driver.

 

Brilliant. Any similar ideas outside USA? But indeed, there are a reasons for that (San Diego`s M60 killdozer).

 

Closer to home, this tank is being prepped for a museum in Germany, is the 1981 Mannheim event. A US tank was stolen and taken for a joy ride through the streets of Mannheim. Polizei cornered him on a bridge over the Rhine brandishing a LAW of one type or another. The driver backed up and off the bridge and that's all she wrote.

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