The U.S. Army’s M60: The ‘Brawler’ Tank Built for a Russia Fight

The U.S. Army’s M60: The ‘Brawler’ Tank Built for a Russia Fight

In the grand arsenal of American military power, some weapons capture the imagination—the sleek lines of a fighter jet, the silent menace of a nuclear submarine. Others simply do the hard work. For more than three decades, the M60 Patton main battle tank was the latter. It was neither glamorous nor revolutionary. It was a brawler; a 50-ton beast of steel and diesel fumes that stood as the backbone of U.S. armored forces, holding the line from th…