The U.S. Marine Corps used the M60 during Desert Storm, racking up 100 enemy tank kills while only losing one M60. However, the M60 was not the U.S.’s go-to tank in the effort to eject Saddam ...

Though originally designed in the 1950s, the M60 was used in the Gulf War by the Marine Corps—and destroyed hundreds of Iraqi tanks. Main Battle Tank The M60 was intended to be the United States ...

The Marine Corps will continue to upgrade its Abrams tanks and is pushing ahead on a bridging system to replace the legacy M60 tank, a Vietnam-era tank used to unfold bridges that can support the ...

The M60 main battle tank was designed to counter Soviet armor ... such as the Soviet Sagger. Years later, the Marine Corps used M60A1s during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, none of which ...

Marines fought alongside tanks in the Corps’ early World War I ... Though the Army had begun its new M1A1 Abrams program to replace the aging M60 at around that time, the Corps was slow to ...

The tank to the west of the flagpole is an M60, which was manufactured from 1959-1983. The tank was retired from front-line combat following Operation Desert Storm. The M60 in front of III Corps ...