#m60a2

[captain-price-unofficially]

US Army magazine guide to the M60A2

[karagin22]

M60A2s at Fort Hood

[capt-riverdry]

M60A2 "Starship"

Featuring the M162 rifled 152mm gun/launcher capable to fire HEAT, HE conventional ammunition and the MGM 51 Shillelagh Anti Tank Guided Missile.

[spolew]

a friend wanted me to draw this:

I was discussing my poor practice habit, and they appeared before me with such energy that I could not resist even in my avoidant state. So I did a little practice.

M60A2 “Starship”, I believe it is a variant on a more common chassis, modified to suit a rocket launcher/recoilless rifle of some persuasion.

Copied the angle from a photograph. It is imperfect… but there was not much I could do with how unstable my lines can be :/

[j-r-macready]

M60A2

[kremlin]

i hope this book covers the m60a2. that thing was so f*cked up.

[kineticpenguin]

Is it just me or is 8.3 US Ground pure suffering. Also XM800T seems fuckin useless without its APDS rounds.

I think that 8.3 kinda sucks for several tech trees, but the US one is held back by forcing you to grind out M60s, which really do not age well compared to other nations' MBTs. The US getting the XM246 in the most recent update should help bridge the gap between the M163 at 7.0 and the M247 at 9.0 at least.

I think that part of the problem is that 8.0/8.3 is where the grind starts getting real again, on top of whatever is going on specifically with the tech tree.

Unless you really want to get the M1A1 HC for some reason, I'd recommend abandoning the M60 tech line altogether. The M60A1 RISE (P) is a sidegrade to the M60 AOS and goes up to 8.7 just because it has dubiously useful ERA all over it. The M60A3 TTS is basically the same thing but even worse at 9.0. Ironically the 120S is pretty good because it has a 120mm Abrams gun turret at 10.3, and can make some cheeky peeking plays because of how tall it is, but I don't think it's worth suffering the grind in obsolescent tanks to get it.

The M60A2 is actually surprisingly survivable, but only fires low-velocity heat and nerfed-into-the-ground ATGMs, and the only vehicle next in its line is the M1128. I think it's worth consideration, but a low priority for grinding compared to the XM803 and MBT-70.

And yeah, the XM800T isn't useless without APDS but it definitely gets a helluva lot better once you unlock that belt.

[walkingthroughthisworld]

[tpmmpt-1]

M60A2

[main-battle-tank]

[eltee1]

US Army T95 Medium Tank (modified) Test Rigs. Several modified T95 test rigs were built in the late 1950's and early 1960's and had various prototype turrets and suspensions tested on them. Both of the ones shown here have prototype M60A2 turrets installed. The green one with a prototype hydropneumatic suspension is now at the US Armor and Cavalry Collection at Ft. Benning, GA (it was previously at Aberdeen, MD). That is the same one from the US Army publications shown in the black and white photo). The rusty brown one is at Anniston Army Depot in Alabama.

I took the pics of the green one at Ft.Benning in May 2018 and Jon Bernstein took the pics of the rusty one at Anniston in July 2017.

[captain-price-unofficially]

LARC-LX & M60A2 during the Army logistics exposition PROLOG '85

[karagin22]

M60A2

[we-are-legion-for-we-are-taco]

General Dynamics be like: 

Hmmm....today we will make a tank with an undrawable turret.

[fxdltc88]

Early tank production at the Army Tank Arsenal. Photo courtesy Albert Kahn Associates

Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant

This tank arsenal was the first ever built for mass production of American tanks. When World War II erupted in Europe, and Germany began using tanks in its Blitzkrieg offensives, the United States did not have a tank production program. By mid-1940, the U.S. realized it needed an armored force separate from its infantry. In response to this need, the Detroit Tank Arsenal Plant sprang up seemingly overnight in the winter of 1940-'41, on 113 acres of farm land located north of downtown Detroit, in what is now the city of Warren. The mammoth structure measured five city blocks deep and two blocks wide, designed by master industrial architect, Albert Kahn, in the Moderne style. The main building, gigantic in size, was protected by 3-foot (0.91-meter) thick concrete walls against potential hostile bombardment.

Owned by the government and run by Chrysler, the plant received its first contract to build 1,000 M3 tanks in 1940. The government accepted the first M3 on April 24, 1941, while the plant was still under construction. The delivery was marked by a festive occasion, broadcast over a nationwide radio hook-up. VIPs and plant workers cheered as the tank fired its guns, smashed telephone poles, and destroyed a mock-up house. The plant also built M4 Sherman tanks, which have a turret mounted 75-mm gun. The plant set an all-time monthly production record by delivering 896 M4s in December 1942. As the war ended, the government suspended tank production.

During World War II, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built a quarter of the 89,568 tanks produced in the U.S. overall. Its production closely matched tank production of either Great Britain or Germany. During the Korean War, the plant was modified to build the new battle tank, the M47 Patton. In all, Chrysler built 3,443 M47 Patton tanks between 1952 and 1954. During the '60s, the plant produced 500 of the superior M60A2 tanks, which had a novel turret mounted on an M60 chassis and featured a 152-mm gun launcher that fired both conventional rounds and a guided missile. In response to the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the plant was producing a record five tanks per day.

In 1979, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built components for M1 tanks, which were built at the Lima Art Tank Plant, and continued to build M60 tanks. Because the Lima Plant could not keep up the M1 production, the Detroit Tank Arsenal plant also began producing M1s for the army. In 1982, Chrysler sold the plant to General Dynamics, which produced both M60s and M1s until 1987. The plant was closed in 1996

Documentation includes the publication, Tanks and Industry, The Detroit Arsenal, 1940-1954,

Originally submitted by: Carl Levin, Senator

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