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The M60 MBT – not to be confused with the M60 infantry machine gun ( AKA “The Pig” ) that served alongside the tank for 40 years – was officially designated the Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105mm Gun, M60, in March 1959. But then again, The A-10 Thunderbolt II warplane was never officially christened the “Warthog” either, yet everybody calls it by that name. In the case of the M60, the “Patton” moniker is put into quotes because this particular make and model tank was actually never officially christened as a Patton tank. It’s this latter “Patton” that we’re going to discuss here and now. The M60 “Patton” second-generation main battle tank officially served in the U.S. The M48 Patton was America’s first-generation main battle tank (as well as the tank that was fit for a king, or more accurately The King, Elvis ). The last two Patton-christened tanks were the most historically significant. (As a side note, this helped “modernize”-so to speak-the naming convention for American tanks, moving it from Civil War generals to 20th century generals.) It is thus entirely appropriate that there are not one, but four U.S. was known as a genius and a forward thinker when it came to tank warfare.

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