Article Summary: The M60 Patton, a Cold War-era main battle tank, remains a symbol of American military innovation. The tank had one mission: beat the Soviet Union on any battlefield or its proxy ...

The M60 had a 105mm rifled gun barrel. Armor was around six-inches thick with a homogenous steel hull. Four soldiers crewed the tank. A 7.62mm coaxial machine gun was used for enemy troops in the open ...

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 ...